THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PERSON AND THE SYSTEM, PERSONA AND ROLE.

Is change management too much focused on putting out organisational fires, turning up with a metaphorical bucket of water when what is needed is an architect that designs structures and cultures that do not catch fire. Additionally is corporate Purpose, a help, hindrance, distraction or central focus for people, process, politics, performance, public and planet.

I suspect Purpose like Well-being is a well intentioned initiative that is there to encourage for commitment,  alignment, compliance and performance, but pushing the responsibility for anxiety, stress and burn-out onto the individual who must be both resilient and productive, managing both work and life, to maximal effect for corporate and personal success.

It could be argued that this is all systemic, and the idea that the individual has much agency seems naive. This provokes a conversation about John Adair's Action Centered Leadership of Role, Task, and Organisation alignment or perhaps Halina Brunning's  Six Domains Of Executive Coaching. Both explore the relationship between the person and the system, persona and role.

Brunning's  six domains are contemporaneously present during the executive coaching sessions and constitute legitimate and appropriate focus of work

a) the client’s personality
b) the client’s life story
c) the client’s skills, competencies, abilities and talents
d) the client’s aspirations, career progression  so far and future directions thereof
e) the client’s current workplace environment in which they perform
f) their current organisational role

It certainly seems to me that talking about organisational change without understanding individual role, persona and system is a bit like putting out fires rather than removing inflammable materials and incendiaries. The latter best understood using the Power, Threat, Meaning, Response Framework that impacts upon people's perception and behaviour as opposed to Kotter's 8 steps to successful change which is akin to painting by numbers. The picture gets painted but people are a resource, ostensibly form filling rather than creating or innovating.

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