The pandemic has pulled the rug from under many of us. Structures and routines that we relied upon to shape our work have changed or gone. We can’t rely on old habits as a way back.<\/p>\n
Gianpiero\u00a0Petriglieri\u00a0challenges the readiness with which leaders engage with vision<\/span><\/a>\u00a0as an example.\u00a0He focusses on leadership, but what he says is relevant to all of us.<\/p>\n “Visions hold our imagination captive, but they rarely have a positive effect on our bodies. In fact, we often end up sacrificing our bodies in the pursuit of different kinds of visions, and celebrating that fact \u2014 whether it is by dying for our countries or working ourselves to\u00a0exhaustion\u00a0for our companies.”<\/p>\n “Visions work the same way whether mystics or leaders have them: They promise a future and demand our life. In some cases, that\u00a0sacrifice\u00a0is worth it. In others, it is not. Just as it can ignite us, a vision can burn us out.”<\/em><\/p>\n We’ve always been suspicious of the ‘vision’ as the gold standard of leadership. We’ve seen many good leaders support people through the messiness and uncertainty towards a lightly held, flexible future state rather than a grand vision.<\/p>\n The value of holding<\/strong><\/p>\n We find ourselves nodding in agreement when Petriglieri instead champions a quality he calls holding.<\/p>\n “Holding is a more obscure and seldom celebrated facet of leadership than vision, but no less important. And when crises hit, it becomes essential. In groups whose leaders can hold, mutual support abounds, work continues, and a new vision eventually emerges. When leaders cannot hold, and we can\u2019t hold each other, anxiety, anger, and fragmentation ensue.”<\/em><\/p>\n It’s a great article, and we recommend\u00a0reading the whole thing<\/span><\/a>. We believe good facilitators need to prioritise holding the group over rushing towards the stated outcome. Most of the best things that happen in meetings are unexpected things created by participants when they (or we) don’t try too slavishly to get to a fixed result on a tight schedule.<\/p>\n Photo by\u00a0Ryoji Iwata<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The pandemic has pulled the rug from under many of us. Structures and routines that we relied upon to shape our work have changed or gone. We can’t rely on old habits as a way back. Gianpiero\u00a0Petriglieri\u00a0challenges the readiness with which leaders engage with vision\u00a0as an example.\u00a0He focusses on leadership, but what he says is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}