No fear about finding what is not working anymore

It is hard. To start acknowledging?what is not working anymore in your organisation.

We feel you.?When it is been working for so long it is so difficult to abandon old ways of?managing?people, designing work processes and implementing great change?programs that rarely fulfil?their own promises. The truth is that the?new ways of working?might?not be working entirely but the solution doesn't reside in the?old ways of working?that we overused.?

On this edition of our Boundmakers Review we are focusing on the powerful role to open ways for continuous?assessment and evaluation of every people's practice?and program in your organisation. At Bound we aim to help organisations create collaborative space to understand what works and what doesn't and it is never personal. It is never about your competence or influence as a leader. And it is not about choosing the right vendors. Evaluation is about escalating your learning and knowing to a level that was never achievable before. To deeply understand what your team needs now. Not last year, and definitely not before March 2020!?

In our consultancy practice we often find that management is too attached to a personal view, framework or stance, and even when faced with?clear feedback and complaints, chooses to?hide away and insist on used up solutions no longer aligned with the needs, pains or expectations of people at work.?Despite the enormous quantity of people data available (not integrated but still), most assessments are questioned and discarded and fail to be used to empower a health literate?leadership and cost-effective preventive interventions.?

Data should not drive decision-making, but it should sustain sensemaking?and meaning that helps everyone in the organisation implement?preventing and impactful decisions concerning health outcomes, not just for individual health but also collective and systemic health.

In this edition of our review?we invite you to read our?blog post?themed "Why are we not assessing more". We also suggest a great book from Arthur Yeung?and Deve Ulrich to?reflect deeper on how to move away from traditional organisational models?"Reinventing the Organization: How Companies Can Deliver Radically Greater Value in Fast-Changing Markets".??And finally, we invite you to learn more about the impact of data in organisations?from?a TED Talk from Philip Evans on?"How data will transform business".?

Do take part in this conversation by leaving a comment on our?blog?or replying to [email protected]?

Liliana Dias (she/her)

Managing Partner Bound.Health