Transformation – Two Percent Shift

September 6, 2024September 7, 2024

Exploring Stages of Conscious Leadership: A Video Discussion

In today’s complex world, many leaders feel as though they’re constantly “in over their heads”, navigating challenge after challenge with little room to breathe. This is a systemic issue that calls for a vertical development approach—development from the inside-out that equips leaders to meet the evolving demands of our modern world.

A vertical development journey, like any change journey, starts with awareness. That’s why we recently facilitated this video discussion with experienced WA leaders to explore and understand the most relevant stages of Conscious Leadership.

This discussion delves into different stages of conscious leadership, helping you identify where you are now and where you aspire to be in your personal and professional growth journey.

July 3, 2024July 3, 2024

Conscious Leadership: A Deeper Perspective into Vertical Development

When we think about Leadership Development, it’s like an iceberg.

People typically focus on ‘what we know’, the acquisition of new knowledge and skills—this is what is referred to as horizontal development. It’s akin to looking at the top of the iceberg that is above the waterline.

March 26, 2021July 3, 2024

Are you renting your organisational transformation?

When undergoing an organisational transformation, there’s a strong temptation to adopt a model off the shelf. It’s easier, it gives you a thing to tell people what you’re doing (‘we’re going SAFe’, or ‘we’re adopting the Spotify model’), and it gives you a reference for solving problems – all you need to do is ‘follow the model’.

Adopting a model off the shelf is akin to ‘renting’ – taking possession of something prebuilt, with low investment and little attachment. Renting can serve a purpose in that there is a body of knowledge to draw from, often handy guides, training and consultants happy to guide you – so it’s often viewed as a faster way to achieve organisational transformation.

At Two Percent Shift we don’t advocate renting because while it might provide short term comfort when wrestling with the uncertainty and complexity of change, it has a significant drawback that severely limits the embedding and sustainability of an organisational transformation that achieves your business goals in your environment:

January 27, 2021July 3, 2024

Organisational Transformation is an infinite game

In this post we look at Organisational Transformation through the lens of Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game. To quote Wikipedia:

“Sinek claims that leaders who embrace an infinite mindset, aligned with infinite play, will build stronger, more innovative, inspiring, resilient organizations, though these benefits may accrue over larger timescales than benefits associated with a finite mindset”

Organisational Transformation is an ongoing and infinite process. There is a language of, and approach to ‘Organisational Transformation’ that has us believe that ‘transformed’ has an end state with specific goals that limits – rather than unleashes – the growth potential of organisations who invest heavily in Organisational Transformation.

December 3, 2020July 3, 2024

Why Professional Coaching is important in Agile Transformation

Year on year the Annual State of Agile Report consistently shows leadership, culture and resistance to change amongst the top challenges for Agile Transformations.

October 26, 2020July 3, 2024

Coaching a Perth Government Agency through their Agile Transformation

At Two Percent Shift we coach organisations through transformations to make shifts towards what is collectively trying to happen.

This week we had the pleasure of facilitating a division within a Perth based government agency that is undertaking a large scale agile transformation to improve the delivery of value to the customer in the shortest sustainable lead time and empower their people to help make it a great place to work.

August 28, 2020July 3, 2024

The value of having a Single Pipeline of work

The Problem

Organisations often have extremely high demand that they try to service simultaneously.

This picture might give you a sense of the problem organisations typically deal with. When the freeway is full of traffic we don’t get much flow, things slow down to near gridlock. Think about your journey to work, when the freeway is full how long does it take to get to your destination?