Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

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For example, when a child is learning how to feed themselves, the parent may start the process by using the hand-over-hand technique, eventually moving their hand to their child’s wrist, facilitating them to feed themselves. Differential reinforcement With patience and practice, even complex behaviors can be mastered using the shaping technique. What Is Shaping Psychology? Here is an example of the use of positive reinforcement. If a child receives praise for cleaning up their toys, they are more likely to repeat that behavior in the future. The encouraging words are the positive reinforcer in this case. Especially to someone who spent years keeping up on the sort of dry literatures on organizations, this here is a cool beautiful stream of best practices for vitality - vitality of persons, vitality of organizations, vitality of cultures, vitality of a planet. Brown is drawing on so many literatures herself: permaculture, complex systems, organizing, sci-fi, midwifery, buddhism. The book can integrate ALL that. It’s not a jumble. It’s an integrated vision and praxis.

Many change initiatives may require extensive training, especially in the case of implementing new technologies, tools, procedures, etc. This can be incredibly daunting to employees, who may not feel as if they have sufficient knowledge around a new task or the appropriate abilities to perform a new responsibility with success. Organisations can reassure their teams by providing significant training where needed. Leaders may find that more than one training session may be needed, but giving employees ample amount of time to adapt can ease the change process and help keep up morale. In addition to Ros’ own blog, she is a regular contributing writer for Leaders in Heels, The Huffington Post, “Thrive Global”, and “People Development” Magazine. Ros’ business story is showcased in the 2014 book “Australian Entrepreneur”. In 2016 Ros released her bestselling and award nominated book “The Resilient Employee: The essential guide to coping with change and thriving in today’s workplace”.also i love how brown highlights her family, friends, and other social justice folks... they offered many powerful insights, including: Differential reinforcement is a form of selective reinforcement of one form of behavior over others. The desired action is reinforced while the undesired ones are discouraged. Bring your team along and align on what it means to have a thriving work culture and transform your workplace into a hub of creativity, collaboration, and getting stuff done! The Shape of Change is the first business change management book to focus solely on the practical challenges of how to plan, implement and embed successful business change initiatives in a wide range of organisations from the business change manager’s point of view. It focuses on shaping every different change approach to take into consideration each individual situation including organisational culture, the type and impact of change the initiative, the attitudes and concerns of stakeholders and the potential for resistance within the organisation. Using a series of example change initiatives in private, public and non-profit sectors, it describes the change management journey, highlighting key points where business change management interventions are essential, and exploring how it feels to undertake business change initiatives in a wide range of situations, from communicating the initial change idea to ensuring the change is embedded and working well in business as usual.

The next stage is to establish steps to the desired behavior. Be recursive, as a step may often prove to be too large for a child to manage and may require being broken down into smaller, simpler, steps. Developmental change.Developmental change entails any change whereby an organisation seeks to make adjustments to pre-existing processes and procedures. The majority of individuals aren’t keen on change. It can be challenging to adopt new processes, tools, work flows, responsibilities, behaviors, etc. If not managed effectively, employees can continue to struggle with change, which can impact morale and productivity, leading to a stagnant or negative working environment. A seasoned and engaging executive coach and facilitator, Ros’s expertise spans strategic planning, leadership development, organisational culture, change management, emotional intelligence and employee engagement. Find out more about Ros here.

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Open Door exists to shape meaningful change in mental health. We create inclusive communities, joyful places and evidence-based programmes that empower people to be mentally well. What we do first-hand in Merseyside, we share with others, inspiring change across the UK. In emergent strategy, relationships are everything (p. 28). Brown builds from her mentor Grace Lee Boggs’ teaching to focus movements on critical connections rather than critical mass. The underlying perspective here is that the relationships between “things” are as real as the things themselves. I’m also reading John Dewey, whose work on aesthetics is so closely tied to that of the pragmatist mystic William James. It his short programmatic piece on pragmatism, James articulated just this. Long long ago. When I first read James’s Radical Empiricism, I thought he might have gotten his metaphysics from the theory of the skandas, or from his reading of the Upanishads, though it’s been 15 years since I read that so I’m no longer sure where I got that idea. In any case, there is a line of mystical knowledge here, and the knowledge is that the connections between things are as real as the things themselves. This idea is incredibly grounding and nurtures effective action in the world. It nurtures the perspective that relationship is everything. We learn as children to swallow our tears and any other inconvenient emotions, and as adults that translates into working through red flags, value differences, pain, and exhaustion." She’s a pleasure activist. Among other things. The M.O. of Emergent strategy is trust, presence, pleasure.

Slow approval processes can drag out a change initiative for much longer than what is needed. This can delay the overall implementation of change, making it harder for employees to adapt. Organisations should always decide on milestone deadlines ahead of time and adhere to them inasmuch as possible. Reinforce any exhibited behavior that is close to the desired, target behavior. Make sure that you are being verbally specific with the child about what they are being rewarded for, for example, instead of saying good job, say “good job tidying away your toys.” Toilet training in toddlers can be achieved through praise of the child indicating that they need to go to the toilet, to praising them for being able to pull down their own pants, and eventually using the toilet by themselves. Teeth brushing

Using reinforcement, a shaping sequence of smaller steps are learned, each specific response moving the child to closer approximations of the final behavior.