1. Mario Gastaldi
mg@mariogastaldi.com
www.mariogastaldi.com
Organizational
Conversation.
Tranformative sense making builds
drive for your organization.
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2. Where does the Organization finds its drive?
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3. Social Capital
Human Capital
CollectiveTalent
Individual Talent
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4. How does HR manage intelligence?
How do leaders think about intelligence?
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5. Rewiring HR?
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6. Women ... Distribution of participation
in the conversation
Individual Social Ability
Collective
Intelligence
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7. How do we help
an Organization
develop
Collective Intelligence?
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8. ORGANIZATIONAL CONVERSATION DEVELOPS CONNECTION AND IDENTIFICATION
AMONG PEOPLE AND BETWEEN THEM AND THE ORGANIZATION
DAILY (LIVE)
Connection
and
Identification
ORGANIZATION
PEOPLE
SPECIAL Engagement
LEARNING EVENTS 1. Initiative
(LIVE) 2. Passion
3. Creativity
DAILY - (SOCIAL TECH 2.0)
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9. Relationships and social
Learning Experiences fabric
Structure
Processes
Permanent individual and communication
collective capacities
co-creation
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10. Beyond “meetings”, beyond “Team Building”
ORGANIZATIONAL CONVERSATION
AND SENSE-MAKING EXPERIENCES
Welcoming and pleasant setting. Focus on Organizational Challenges.
People talk about work in a positive and creative way.
Relationships among people and managers develop and become
stronger, within work related conversation.
A new shared understanding of work related matters develops
relationships and persisting capabilities of co-creation in the group
within a self-sustainable continuous improvement process
TRADITIONAL MEETINGS
Work related. Problem solving. "TEAM BUILDING"
Bosses dominate and speak most of the time;
No work related conversation. Simple play and
"Usual" thinking prevails;
enjoyment with no relation with organizational
Scarce or absent innovation.
challenges.
Low Engagement and motivation;
Interaction patterns are so different and
Low connection among participants and between
unrelated with work matters, that they are not
them and managers.
repeatable once back into the daily work setting.
Cautiousness.
Insignificant impact; often counterproductive .
Status quo.
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11. Appreciative Inquiry
Positive
Leadership
Development
1. Discover the best
of what is
4. Make it happen Appreciative 2. Dream your
Vision of the Future
Inquiry
3. Co-Design
what is needed to
make it happen
AI_Italy
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12. A dilemma as a
Leaders want their organizations
Conversation to become more and more
Starter ... competitive. They see the
opportunities.
Yet they could worry that they
might lose power with adoption
of social media in the
organization ...
... or if they enable too much of a
widespread organizational
conversation ...
How do we help?
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13. many thanks!
Mario Gastaldi
Inspired by: mg@mariogastaldi.com
Thomas Malone, www.mariogastaldi.com
Shawn Achor,
Sarah Lewis,
Margaret Wheatley,
Marcial Losada,
Dianne Whitney,
Valdis Krebs,
Martin Seligman
Gary Hamel
Many of the ideas are mine.
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