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Silver Bullet - The Myth of Fixability with Steve Hearsum
Season 2, Ep. 9
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When was the last time you experienced true change in your organisation?When was the last time you hired a change consultant?What did it actually change?
Highly Relational
Season 2 - Episode 9
Silver Bullet – Myth of Fixability
with Steve Hearsum
Steve has spent decades working as an executive coach and consultant, working with organisations like Roffey Park, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and the University of Sussex and has come to understand that there are no silver bullets, no quick fixes.
Steve is here today to highlight that we are all colluding in this myth of fixability, not just leaders and if we were more vulnerable with each other, got comfortable with saying I don’t know and listened we would be able to make meaningful change in our teams and workplace.
Topics Covered:
- What is the myth of fixability?
- What is a silver bullet?
- Culture change
- Power of internal enquiry
- Organisational therapy
- Shame ands anxiety
- Colluding in the myth
- Ego
- Courage to directly challenge and learn
- Existential element of fixability
Honourable Mentions:
- John Higgins and Mark Cole, Amazon
- Dr Graham Curtis, Roffey Park Website
- Magic Consultants, BBC Radio 4
Steve Hearsum:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevehearsum
‘No Silver Bullet: Bursting the Bubble of The Organisational Quick Fix’, Amazon
Robert Digings:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertdigings/
Team Development Consultant and Executive Coach
Robert has been working with teams and their challenges for over 20 years.
He has discovered that the biggest improvements come when a team has the courage to do the challenging work of developing deep personal connections and a real sense of belonging.
In this new business podcast Robert explores the insights, experience and advice from other experts in the field of human collaboration, be they leaders, authors, coaches or consultants.
Production credits:
Studio Manager at Brown Bear Audio – Tom Dalton
Post Production - Shaun Lawson
Series Producer - Ella Halsall
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