The Talking Point: The IMEX Group Podcast

“Adaptive teams and wilding organisations” A conversation with Jon Barnes.

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Today in our episode we’re talking re-wilding organisations to improve productivity, resilience, and collaboration with Jon Barnes, Adaptive Organisations Consultant. 

You’ll take away insights including: 

  • We speak a lot about learning from nature (it’s out Talking Point!), but exactly how are we putting this into practice at IMEX? 
  • What does being a gardener have to do with good leadership?! 
  • What is an adaptive team? And how can being adaptive increase employee freedom and responsibility? 
  • Why should we move away from “traditional” agile working jargon towards nature metaphors? (Hint: human beings aren’t machines!) 
  • Why over-structuring an organisation can result in waste of energy, talent and money – and how do we break out of those structures? 
  • What are the longer-term benefits of “waiting and watching” – nurturing your team to develop their own solutions to problems? 

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    You can reach Jon at his website here: http://jonbarnes.me 

    We're excited that Jon has allowed us to give his Wilding Organisations book away totally free of charge. It really is the simplest and quickest way to get a flavour of adaptive working and the benefits it could bring to your business: http://jonbarnes.me/books/wilding-organisations 

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