{"id":16949,"date":"2024-01-02T18:31:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T18:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/?p=16949"},"modified":"2024-01-02T18:31:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T18:31:33","slug":"proliferating-developmental-culture-workshop-by-dana-carman-and-heidi-gutekunst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/proliferating-developmental-culture-workshop-by-dana-carman-and-heidi-gutekunst\/","title":{"rendered":"Proliferating developmental culture: Workshop by Dana Carman and Heidi Gutekunst."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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The check-in which prepares our space included how the war in Gaza and slow momentum of COP28 is a challenging many of us. For example, Heidi in Finland, named the challenges of integrating refugees coming over the Russian border into the relatively small population asking ‘what it is to be a \u201cliberal\u201d at a time of social unraveling globally?’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dana Carman and Heidi Gutekunst<\/a> then presented their case, video here<\/a> and URL below on how the transformative work they are up to at a British bank may succeed in proliferating into the whole system.<\/p>\n

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The challenge of the case revolves around the question of how a culture-developmental approach can become an attractor across an entire organizational system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Context and inquiry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dana and Heidi are working to develop a deliberately developmental culture within a British bank. Specifically, they’re extending work started by colleague Joel Janowitz within a UK-based bank, that prioritizes AI data & analytics WITH leadership & compassion.\u00a0 Their immediate internal client heads up the bank’s data and analytics operation which is a 4,000-person organization. Their work is primarily with the data engineers and data scientists. The bank, with its focus on climate issues, had attracted unconventional\/post-conventional staff, but recent changes in CEO and upper leadership bring questions about the future. To date the engineers and scientists, who are unfamiliar with the relational\/experiential\/developmental way of working \u00a0– are appreciating it for their teams and workplace.<\/p>\n

Challenge<\/strong>: how does the success so far continue and proliferate into a changing 2024, and beyond?<\/p>\n

Creating Deliberately Developmental Culture <\/strong><\/p>\n

Dana and Heidi emphasized the importance of creating an environment where people can have intimate relationships, work through tensions and conflicts, and do real work in an extraordinary way. Heidi spoke of creating \u201csquads\u201d with the support of the internal OD team, so as to enhance the approach to collaboration and decision-making she, Dana and Joel have seeded. They discussed the use of various OD\/ART frameworks and practices in their work, with a focus on building systems thinking capacities and navigating polarities. Heidi translates these practices into the group’s own language for better understanding and implementation. Dana discussed the “Breakthrough Project,” a “capstone” cross-functional initiative aimed at achieving something currently impossible within the bank due to bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

Inquiry<\/strong> How is this work to continue best (“proliferate”) as we include a next set of project champions?<\/p>\n

Group Reflection…<\/strong>Per our workshop norms we re-emphasized the importance of speaking from personal experience; we are not giving advice!<\/p>\n