Plan C

We have heard from many team members that they have enjoyed and have been more productive during the COVID 19 lock down. They attribute it to having less interactions with their direct managers giving them more flexibility and sense of autonomy on how they get their tasks completed.

So in this episode we explore some Plan C thinking about what a new type of supervision and management might look like.

We are in a period of accelerated social disruption in an interconnected world where we are inundated by information, and where not all of it is helpful.

In Episode 3 of the Plan C Podcast Neil Gibb and I discuss and provide examples of how to identify and acknowledge the emotions we all have when we are faced with a crisis.

When we understand our emotions as related to some brutal facts, we can start to apply Plan C thinking and turn what we at first perceived as a crisis into an opportunity.

Our emotions frame how we view a problem, when we reframe our emotions and get back to the purpose, meaning, & impact, we can start to see a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something differently and create opportunities we couldn’t see before.

We explore some real-life examples (and a real time example) and provide some ideas you can use with your teams to get the facts and the emotions linked to the facts onto the table and out in the open. Then the magic of innovation, and opportunity occurs. You might even be able to use it to work out what the elusive new normal is?

We would be super interested to hear your real-life examples of reframing.

This episode is a preamble to a series of live conversations we invite you to participate in about building successful cultures and new ways of working.

Global Social Disruption has been occurring for at least the last 4 years, but recent events have rapidly accelerated its impact in Social Change. How do we lead through Social Change, when we don't yet know what the change is leading too.

In this Episode as a way of introducing our listeners to our Plan C thinking, Dave interviews Neil about his best selling book, The Participation Revolution, and how it is shaping the way we think and feel towards approaching disruption and creating community based agile cultures. 

Most businesses have a clear Plan A and a predictable Plan B for when situations change and Plan A doesn’t work anymore.

But the magic is in the unpredictable, embracing the uncomfortable and in applying a Plan C.

Plan C is about the things we often can't easily define: connection, culture, community.

It is about creativity and collaboration.