Sublime

For new and mission-critical programs, consider using interviews and focus groups to get more in-depth information.

Pluralistic-Green Organizations seek to deal with the problem of power inequality through empowerment, pushing decisions down the pyramid, and they often achieve much higher employee engagement. But empowerment means that someone at the top must be wise or noble enough to give away some of his power. What if power weren’t a zero-sum game? What if w

You can also invite the whole organization jointly to reflect upon wholeness and together design concrete practices to incorporate wholeness into day-to-day work. There are many large group approaches (Appreciative Inquiry, Future Search, Open Space, and others) that make it possible to do this with hundreds or even thousands of employees at the sa

That respect for one another’s intelligence and genuine desire to discover the bases of colleagues’ views drove intense mutual questioning and kept it mostly productive and civil, if often quite colorful. The team also modeled this vigorous questioning for employees in many forums, openly debating one another.

Choosing to reinterpret a drama triangle from the perspective of a free actor allows us to exchange a vicious cycle for its inverse.

Separate from our own need to be “right” in order to hear and respect others’ realities and perspectives: and, b) Differentiate between thoughts (what’s going on inside your head) and behaviors (what you do or say).

Before lunch, participants zoom in on the last question from the interview—What conditions were in place that helped you to be fully yourself at work?—in groups of eight around each table. They try to find common factors that allowed wholeness to emerge. After a while, a microphone is again handed around the room to volunteers from different tables

It allows us to move away from delivering messages and toward asking questions, exploring how each person is making sense of the world. And to offer our views as perceptions, interpretations, and values—not as “the truth.”