How do you know your learning organization is ready to make a transformation…..to alter the DNA of how it thinks about and acts on first principles of learning, schooling and education.
In Spiral Dynamics Don Beck and Christopher Cowan offer us leaders six valuable questions to gauge our organization’s readiness.
- Does the potential exist for people to think differently?
- Do solutions exist for unresolved problems?
- Is there sufficient dissonance about the present?
- Is there insight about alternatives?
- Are the barriers to transformation identified and addressable?
- Is support available during transformation?
While the answers will certainly vary from organization to organization, all six questions have affirmative answers available if the leaders and people within them are willing to confront the challenge of transformation.
And the number of leaders and learning environments willing to answer “yes” to these questions is growing as discontent with the current paradigm of schooling and education becomes less and less effective.
The task at hand now is to support those leaders to turn the affirmative answers into actions.
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❓ Provocations:
Based on your context, which questions are you most curious about? If you answered ‘no’ to any of the questions, what would you need to do to turn them into ‘yes’ answers?
💎 Resource:
Introduction to Spiral Dynamics and Evolution of Organizations – video
🧠 Mindsets:
Organizational psychology
💡 Areas:
Leadership
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