{"id":524,"date":"2009-03-06T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localenterprise.wordpress.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2009-03-06T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T16:15:01","slug":"inspiration-from-haneberg-and-strickland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2009\/03\/06\/inspiration-from-haneberg-and-strickland\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration from Haneberg and Strickland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just listening to Lisa Haneberg’s podcast<\/a> with Bill Strickland<\/a>.\u00a0 I can’t get enough of these ideas.\u00a0 They consider a really powerful question along the lines of:<\/p>\n

Will your life be a reflection of your environment or a reflection of your vision of how you want the world to be?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How can we build a relationship with our clients that is strong enough to allow us to ask this question?<\/p>\n

If you have done my enterprise coaching programme you will (I hope) recognise this as a classic and powerful ‘confrontational’ question.\u00a0 It is one that we should aspire to ask in our work with clients.<\/p>\n

Making the right choice in relation to this question could be fundamental in helping stimulate a more enterprising culture in some of our most disadvantaged communities.<\/p>\n

We should also consider this question in relation to our own practice and the nature of the relationship with our own organisation.\u00a0 If our organisation is obsessed with outputs and targets does that mean our service needs to reflect that?\u00a0 If our employer is bureaucratic and process driven do we choose to reflect that – or a more entrepreneurial culture?<\/p>\n

Do we have the courage to take a different route?<\/p>\n

Bill talks about changing the environment, physical and psychological, to provide a context that is affirming, positive and facilitative of peoples’ assets rather than focusing on, labelling and magnifying their deficits.<\/p>\n

Enterprise professionals as custodians of the human spirit.\u00a0 What a vision.\u00a0 Now where was that business plan.<\/p>\n

Give the podcast a whirl – watch the videos – you could even read the book!<\/p>\n