In times of challenge and uncertainty, when external pressures dominate (and distract) organisational focus and conversations, a powerful and shared vision is necessary to provide a hopeful future that will help weather the storm now.
This example from Canterbury Rugby recognises their current reality and the feelings and meaning attached, and flips these to form a simple and compelling strategy for the future.
I can get behind this.
Quite a different approach to recent strategy focus groups I have experienced.
Adain Summerfield yes and as well as the purpose, there are 6 other main areas we have to get bettter at in today's fast pace world of constant disruption
1. Identify signals that help determine the future in the code, industry or organization
2. From purpose link objectives to behaviors and understand to focus on most critical few objectives with intension and understanding what change means for human beings, neuroplasticity i.e. What propels and what restricts building new path ways
3. The outcomes to be associated with the organizational health nedeed, Always Ready - prepared and resilient, Always Responsive - ability to respond quickly to change, Always Innovative - ways to disrupt current business patterns and the code, industry or organization, moving away from linear thinking which is only about the competitive edge, that today can be wiped out over night, by a regulatory change, demand or new ways
4. The impact of interrupted business or training cycles and the ways to complement changing cycles
5. Ways or a lens to move from where we are today to the vision and purpose, Tools Agility or Tech Agility, Structural Agility, Outcomes Agility, Social Agility and the most important Mental Agility
6. Developing capability, unlearning and unlearning processes, strategies and approaches that have been the success in the past, butdon't serve today
OrgFit International we see Codes, organizations that have a holistic approach and strategy of these six factors will move from surving to thriving or thriving to superthriving
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This is #class.
Sam Whitelock was a lock for the #AllBlacks in the 2023 Rugby World Cup final, where the All Blacks lost to the Springboks by a single point: 12 - 11.
He acknowledged the pain of losing but also took time to acknowledge the winning Springboks:
"It does take time to process. It's something that will stick with our team - the one that got away. It doesn't take anything away from South Africa. They played exceptional rugby... they were playing winning rugby, and they got the job done. It's history now, we can't change it, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, but it is what it is."
More importantly, he shared his encouraging views on the Sam Cane red card, which dropped the All Blacks to 14 men at the 29th minute mark:
"Sam [Cane] didn't play the way he wanted to. You get around him. It's the human part of it. You take away the rugby, and you just worry about your mates. Some people need space, some people need support being close, some people you don't say anything. So it's working out what that person needs and do it. The team were awesome. Everyone stuck together. There was no blaming of people or anything like that. That is probably one of the proudest things about that time - we all stayed together; we didn't split and become divided."
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This is what a team should look like. There will be wins and losses. But you stick together. You rally around someone when he hurts. You don't blame. You encourage and support. You be gracious to the winner.
This is my work and life philosophy too. #Litigation is a team sport. #Life is a team sport. We must have #class.
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