Are you preparing for the future?

What a year it has been! Let's look back to prepare for the future. Here’s a selection of articles on organizational culture, change, and positive leadership that you liked best. Being future-fit means continuous learning and adapting, training resilience and trying out new things. What remains the same is applying practices based on positive psychology to achieve positive outcomes. Let’s contribute to a positive future.

For me, this has been a year of learning in addition to my consulting work and giving workshops and training. I attended several conferences on climate and compassion. I attended courses and dialogue groups on Effective Altruism and Active Hope and followed additional university education on Sustainability in Business.

A positive organizational culture is a sustainable culture with a positive purpose. Organizations have to step up and contribute to solutions for climate, social and environmental challenges. If you want to learn more, the below articles are a quick starting point. If you want to dive deeper, read the books that inspired these blog posts or enroll in one of the courses that inspired me. Keep learning!

Leading mindfully for a positive culture

Positive leaders can engage the transformative potential of climate change for their people and organizations. A positive organizational culture contributes to solutions. Check how to lead mindfully: get yourself in the green, positive zone and see how to lead your team mindfully to solutions.

Net positive organizations give more than they take

Is the world better off because your business is in it? Read Net Positive, a book that shows how organizations can give more than they take - and thrive! Solving global issues is a major business opportunity and it’s the right thing to do. Paul Polman, Unilever’s ex-CEO shares what he learned. Here’s a journey for positive organizations!

Transformational change: what can you do?

Transformational change: what can you do? Learn from Jan Rotmans, professor of transition science to see the crisis as an opportunity. See how you make a difference as an individual and understand that you need patience for the S-curve of transitions.

Transformational change for organizations

Organizations can make a positive contribution to the current transition. But they need to change fast. Learn from Jan Rotmans, professor of transition science, what agility and resilience mean - and see how that connects to a positive organizational culture with a positive purpose.

ESG and a positive organizational purpose

ESG isn’t just a legal reporting obligation, but an opportunity. Working on Environmental, Social, and Governance challenges activates your organization’s purpose and culture, improves the bottom line, and delivers easier subsidies, licenses, and funding. It helps to strengthen stakeholder relations, differentiate from the competition, and helps to attract millennials and Gen Z professionals and customers. What’s your corporate motivation? Is it a must, a should, a want?

Organizational culture: risks and opportunities for the future

Organizational culture brings risks and opportunities and a validated culture assessment offers insights for investors and leaders. Is the organization future-fit in this VUCA-world? Check the risk and opportunity indications based on the OCAI culture assessment and see how you can improve.

How to talk about [bleep] at work?

Do you avoid sensitive [bleep] topics at work? Too bad! If you address them (including #DEI and #ESG issues) you build the organization's #culture and come up with actionable ideas together. Let's talk about any [bleep] that matters. Dialogue is always relevant for work. Let’s become courageous, positive influencers.

What’s your expected positive impact?

If you want to improve organizational culture or your organization’s ESG impact, five questions help to determine what to do and what not to do. How to assess your expected positive impact? How to decide if it’s worth the effort? Check your expected impact here.

Positive organizations for a brighter future

We can still create a flourishing future... Wellbeing is a corporate social responsibility (CSR) and it helps people and organizations solve the current global issues. It’s not a luxury, it starts small - with interactions, and it works! Let’s learn from positive psychology

Active Hope for positive organizations

Discouraged about global crises? Use the Active Hope process that helps people and organizations unleash their strengths. Pick your story (Business as Usual, Great Unraveling, Great Turning), start from gratitude, acknowledge pain, see with new eyes and take action. Start with seven “sentence starters”.

Let's prepare and improve!

So, are you open to learning and changing? Open to heeding sustainability and social justice in your private life and at work? Welcome! We can improve our organizations from the inside so that they become positive organizations that contribute to a positive future.

I look forward to hearing from and working with you again in the next year. Let’s do this! Let’s leave the world better than we found it and help the generations that come after us.

Wishing you health and peace!

© Marcella Bremer, 2022

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