I’m a big fan of sabbaticals.
Life tends to have a way of happening. We take the steps that show up in front of us, develop a routine, get comfortable and soon the pattern we are in sets our days and our lives.
The context for our work remains leadership and culture. The primary focus of our work is on managers as the expression and conduit of these.
In terms of culture, engagement, and performance we believe that managers are the most impactful people in the organisation. We need brilliant leadership absolutely (and many great consultants are offering programs in that space).
Having recently returned from study at the Harvard Kennedy School, Helen shares her thoughts from her inspired time whilst attending the Art and Practice of Leadership Development (APL) programme led by Professor Heifetz.
Sometimes it seems that if you wanted to design a workplace where people can't do their best work, you would design the 9-5 office model.
Frameworks has come a long way since its inception in 2003 and changed even more in the past few years since we set up an office in town. Then it was Marg and I and the Frameworks brand was largely about the consulting work one person could do. Since then we have grown and morphed into something different...
Last week I hit overload. My mushy brain hurt. Too many things to do and every addition fell just short of overwhelm. My colleagues would ask me a question and I'd look at them like a rabbit startled in headlights. So I wrote a list of all the things I had to do at work. I wrote them in categories and I wrote it all, the big things and the small. The immediate things and the later things. Seventeen pages later I was done and my brain felt like it had been spring cleaned...
