About the podcast

Imagine your organization as a living system (not a machine) designed for people to thrive, grow, innovate, and laugh. Bringing themselves and your business forward. I believe we can create better working environments and companies that are better for communities and for the planet!

About this episode

This episode is a learning hack. It is a short episode on a specific hack you can use when leading in transformation, when working with groups and teams on change, when leading a sustainable transition of an organization. I will address new work practices or sustainability practices.

Today I present a new work hack on “Liberating Structures 1,2,4, all -boost your collaboration”.

Use this structure to include the knowledge, experience, and ideas of all your team members. This is collaboration at its best!

I talk about Liberating Structures, what they are, why they matter, and you can learn the core structures 1, 2, 4, all step by step for:

🔹 Face to face settings

🔹 For online settings (zoom or MS Teams)

🔹 For a hybrid setting

🔹 I also give an example on how you can specifically use it to improve your regular team meetings.

This episode is for LS beginners as well as pros. I am a big LS promoter and I use it when I work with leaders and teams in transformation and change as well as in team and culture development.

Try it out and share your feedback and insights down in the comments of this post.

Want more after listening to the new work hack?

🔹Get the entire 1,2,4, all description from the podcast in this blog post of mine: ADD LINK

🔹Join my event: BarCamp of the non-profit organization #play14 I co-host in Zurich from September 21 in the evening to September 23, 2023, to learn and exchange on liberating structures, play, serious games, team development hacks, agile hacks etc. https://play14zh.com/

🔹Join our LS go online User group to practice

🔹 Go back to episode 4 of my podcast “Ecology meets Liberating Structures with Jeremy Akers“ to deep dive on Liberating Structures

🔹Visit www.liberatingstructures.com for all 33 LS

Get in touch with me:

· Let us continue the discussion and connect on LinkedIn and dive deeper into today’s topic with my blog articles.

· Want to work with me? Write me an email: info[a]nicole-helmerich.com or a LinkedIn DM.

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Imagine your organization as a living system (not a machine) designed for people to thrive, grow, innovate, and laugh. Bringing themselves and your business forward. I believe we can create better working environments and companies that are better for communities and for the planet!

Therefore, in this podcast you can explore:

• cutting edge new work practices and sustainability practices for your organization, for your team, and for you as a leader
• hands-on conversations with international pioneers in new work and sustainability
• new insights, ideas, perspectives, methods, tools, skills, hacks, learning nuggets

so we can all get out of our silos and learn from each other!

This podcast if for:

leaders, HR and sustainability managers, agile folks, and everyone who wants to make a difference inside the workplace, while protecting our planet.

Episode 11: Colonial Sustainability and how to decolonize sustainability in your supply chains

My guest today

Lavinia advocates for social & environmental justice and has 15 years of proven experience in the world of ethically driven business with a focus on apparel, footwear, and solidarity agriculture. Prior to leading the sustainability activities of the German fashion brand ARMEDANGELS, she researched in the field of Child Labour in global trade; audited and consulted fashion brands and factories in Europe, Asia, and South America. Lavinia claims that colonial sustainability is not a theoretical subject, but a real lived one, which all of us who interact with sustainable development and the Global South experience and fuel daily. Connect with her on Linked In and visit her website.

Our topic: Colonial Sustainability and how to decolonize sustainability in your supply chains

This podcast episode is for leaders caring about or being responsible for supply chain sustainability and human rights in supply chains. Find out, how to rethink your sustainability and human rights approach in your supply chain:

• what colonial sustainability means and why we need to rethink our sustainability policies for the supply chains
• what are right relationships between buyers, suppliers and workers and why a risk approach has its limits
• how you can co-create sustainability and a great product in your supply chain with all relevant actors

Resources we mention:

• Moving beyond carbon tunnel vision by Dr.Jan Konietzko
• Nicole’s favorite song “Jarabe De Palo - Dejame Vivir”
• Lavinia’s favourite film “triangle of sadness”
• Lavinia’s mentioned course for professionals: Intro decolonial sustainability
• Future Work method for co-creation: Liberating Structures, join our online user group

Get in touch with me:

· Let us connect on LinkedIn .

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Join me on the journey to new work and sustainability!

My name is Nicole Helmerich, I accompany leaders and teams to connect, and co-create meaningfully, and to grow bringing themselves and their business forward. I help organizations to transform in a sustainable and people-centred way.

Imagine your organization as a living system (not a machine) designed for people to thrive, grow, innovate, and laugh. Bringing themselves and your business forward. I believe we can create better working environments and companies that are better for communities and for the planet!

Therefore, in this podcast you can explore:

• cutting edge new work practices and sustainability practices for your organization, for your team, and for you as a leader
• hands-on conversations with international pioneers in new work and sustainability
• new insights, ideas, perspectives, methods, tools, skills, hacks, learning nuggets

so we can all get out of our silos and learn from each other!

This podcast if for:

leaders, HR and sustainability managers, agile folks, and everyone who wants to make a difference inside the workplace, while protecting our planet.

Episode 10: Sustainability Hack. Inner development goals (IDGs) and how to use them in your team

This episode is a short learning hack. What is this podcast format about?

The conversation format with my wonderful international network of promoters of new work and sustainability will continue. But I will add a new format - that of a learning hack. A short episode on a specific hack you can use when leading in transformation, when working with groups and teams on change, when leading a sustainable transition of an organization. I will address new work practices or sustainability practices.

Today I present a sustainability hack. inner development goals (IDGs) and how to use them in your team.

Next steps for you:

• Try the collaborating dimension out with your team and let me know, how it goes. If you have any questions do not hesitate to reach out to me on linked in and I am happy to support you
• Contact me and let’s bring IDGs to your organization

Resources I mention:

• Join the IDG community
• Join the Inner Development Goals Summit 2023 in October in Stockholm
• Read more about the 5 dimensions and 23 skills https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org/framework
• Listen to the new work hack river crossing in episode 9
• Up for more serious games? Attend our BarCamp of the non-profit organization #play14 I co-host in Zurich from Sep 21 in the evening to Sep 23 to learn and exchange on play, serious games, team development hacks etc. https://play14zh.com/

Get in touch with me:

• Let us continue the discussion and connect on LinkedIn and dive deeper into today’s topic with my blog articles.
• Want to work with me? Write me an email: info[a]nicole-helmerich.com or a LinkedIn DM.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.