I'm
slowly catching up with the telecommuting-conferencing virtual work world. Shedding my "Lone Stress Doc,"
writer-cave persona, I finally have plunged into a collaborative "iterative"
process with online colleagues. Truth be
told, I wasn't exactly sure what "iterative" meant when first
mentioned by Dr. Terence Jackson, a Corporate Culture-Organizational
Development-Business Strategist.
According
to the online Miriam-Webster, iterative
is a
procedure in which repetition of a sequence of operations yields results
successively closer to a desired result...and/or, IMHO, a divergent and
unanticipated, if not novel, outcome or product.
Dr.
Jackson and I were virtually connected by an insightful entrepreneur, Linked-In colleague Will Berry. Having at least spoken with both parties, (Will
and I also had a stimulating f-2-f) Will believed Dr. J and the Stress Doc was a
conceptual union waiting to happen.
The Beginning Process
From
the start, there was a sense of synergistic potential with our different yet
somewhat overlapping and complementary career and cultural backgrounds and experiences,
skills and talents. However, just what a
joint presentational system-program would look, sound, and taste like was still
a mystery, at least to this member of the brain trust. Early back and forth, both through email and an
initial phone call definitely generated more questions than answers. For example, one of my early emails, details
strengths, vulnerabilities, and sweet spots...and the need to ask clarifying
and thought-provoking questions (while, alas, mixing
some metaphors):
Looked over your coaching and customer service modules. I am very impressed with your well-structured
and comprehensive deliverables, especially for a course series...I have less
experience doing a series, more experience with keynotes and 2 hr to 2 day
workshops and retreats. That said,
before I can proceed to write, I need for us to talk. I need a better sense of how we will
interrelate -- both on a content level and in delivery format -- whether as a
course, conference presentation, workshop or retreat. Perhaps, over time, we might develop several
shoe sizes...I need an umbrella focus for this collaborative effort: is it team development, managing change,
leadership...possibly all three?
And
a phone dialogue was just the spark to glean Dr. J's purposeful concepts and
passionate focus: his system terms
resonated with my conception of creative communication and "synergy"
-- "culture," "rhythm," "improvisation," along
with "generating harmony by maxing the input and talents found in employee
diversity" along with bedrock (and bottom line) ideas of
"accountability" "transparency" and "trust" (a
definite source of T 'n T. Oh by the
way, we both are charter members of that 12-step AA group: Acronyms Anonymous.) We've also had considerable success coaching
and/or counseling individual leaders. He
is a certified authority on "Emotional Intelligence." (I'm just acutely "emotionally
insightful"; okay, also pioneering the field of "Humor
Intelligence" ™.)
However, Dr. J had much
more in-house experience in major companies as a strategic leader; he brought a
more sophisticated understanding of the "big picture' system. The Stress Doc's specialty was stress resilience,
anger and conflict management, loss and grief, as well as team building, more
within teams or between divisional units.
And while Dr. J was a "down to earth visionary," a dynamic and
motivating coach-educator-presenter, I'm a quirky yet inspiring "psychohumorist"
™ (who lets the audience decide where the emphasis on that word should go. ;-) Of course, I've had a private psychotherapy-coaching practice for several decades.
Still I resonated with
his distinction between "change" (external,
physical, reversible) and "transformation" (internal, psychological, and bringing to life a new entity). Our "Yin/Yang" potential was
increasingly apparent.
The Mind-Expanding "Iterative" Process
The final partner glue
occurred when Dr. J was sharing thoughts on being "iterative." As he was explaining the concept, it's back
and forth, jazz riff, synergistic potential leaped to the forefront of my
neologism-producing mind. (A neologism is a synthetic word formed by combining two or more existing words.)
Our hybrid baby: CREiterative!
So here is the one week back-and-
forth conceptual-waiting-to-be applied offspring of the electronic interplay of
two individual and idiosyncratic minds -- a system-program titled:
Organizational
Resilience and Rhythm: A Creative and Collaborative Model and System
-- Achieving High Tech and Human
Touch Harmony (and Profitability)
And Part II highlights a fairly
comprehensive compilation of factors making this "dialogic dancing with the
stars" both effective and efficient as well as integrative and creative.
Here are "The Key Steps and
Strategies, Tools and Techniques for CREiterative Process and Product." Are
you ready to find a partner and go back and forth for it?
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Organizational Resilience and Rhythm: A Creative and Collaborative Model and System -- Achieving High Tech and Human Touch Harmony (and Profitability)
Culture is the driver of
all corporations and organizations. Bottom line!
Culture is 1) the Belief System, 2) that determines Accountability and Commitment, 3) that stimulates Collaboration and excites Innovation...or INERTIA!
- When leaders set and model a Corporate Culture of
Triple "A" Responsibility & Resilience generating focus,
coordination, and flow
- When your company creates a "helmet's off" --
authentic and inclusive -- climate, so that status no longer stifles the
free exchange of ideas
- When diversity is the catalyst for expanded
perspective, global market penetration, creative conflict and stronger productivity-profitability,
along with employee recruitment & retention,
- When individuals, teams, leaders, and systems discover and design their own unique
sense of TIME: Transformation-Inspiration-Motivation-Empowerment...
- Then
you are into the new "R and R" -- Resilience and Rhythm -- and are blazing the creative and
collaborative path of Organizational
Harmony!
And two diverse and
unique Organizational Culture Warriors -- Dr. Terry Jackson and Mark Gorkin,
the Stress Doc ™ -- have joined forces to help your culture "Get Fit"
through their FUN-Interactive-Thought-provoking speaking programs,
workshops, and leadership retreats, always tailored and targeted to your team
and organizational strengths and needs.
Their experience and expertise will seed and empower a TIME Conscious Culture. [See program blurb
below.]
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With their unique and
diverse chemistry and synergy, DR. J and the Stress Doc will help evolve management and front-line mindsets and
skill sets, bridge generational and other cultural divides, thereby expanding
personal, professional, and organizational coordination and performance
excellence!
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For more information on
designing, integrating, and launching this synergistic and innovative --
conceptual and applied -- model and system, whether for keynotes, workshops,
courses, and leadership retreats, email.....stressdoc@aol.com
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