Strategies fail, teams struggle and changes stall. But the cause isn’t simply a ‘bad’ framework, a defective plan or because ‘people are resistant’: it’s a failure to understand contexts. Without working with contexts, every choice about our strategy, ways of working and structures are just expensive gambles. Isn’t it about time we stopped relying on luck?
Fortunately, there’s an alternative, and in this interactive session led by Stephen E. Morris introduces the powerful concept of sensemaking. This vital skill, conspicuously missing from leadership courses and change frameworks gives us a way to navigate – to identify and work with – the vast range of contexts we face.
Key topics and learning outcomes
- How everything, from leadership to culture, team dynamics to product success is influenced by multiple contexts
- A foundational knowledge of sensemaking, its practical applications and potential across organisations.
- Hands-on use of a sensemaking tool, e.g. Cynefin, on a topical issue, like the introduction of AI capability into an organisation.
Who should attend?
- Leaders frustrated with failures of promising frameworks and strategies
- Professionals seeking better understanding of sensemaking and its practical applications
- Curious minds interested in different approaches to tackle organisational challenges
Agenda
- Introductions – ~5 mins
- Overview + Workshop with Stephen E. Morris
- Networking with pizza & refreshments
- Wrap‑up – ~10 mins
Please note: This session will be recorded, and photographs may be taken - please contact us ahead of the event if you have any concerns.
Venue
Simplyhealth - Anton House, Chantry Street, Andover, SP10 1DE.
Stephen’s biography
Stephen E. Morris is an author, speaker and award-winning leader, with over two decades of experience leading and transforming complex, large-scale functions. His expertise spans work at pioneering cloud-computing providers to highly regulated global enterprises, and reaches diverse sectors including IT, healthcare, banking, insurance and government. He lives in a small town in England with his family and an implausibly loud cat.
