There is a lot of discussion about increasing social and emotional intelligence, showing up with more wholeness as Frederic Laloux popularizes, vulnerability and taking off your armor as Brene Brown encourages. This is just to mention a few.

But how do we put this into practice, esspecitally at work, where the title pyramid hierarchy - visibly and invisibly - often gets in the way?

John Thompson founded The PCO Group to address this very issue. PCO – people centric organizations.

His unique approach to fostering human development - the combination of emotional social and leadership intelligence - goes arm in arm with restructuring the role of “manager” in an organization. John proposes transferring some of the “manager” roles to other colleagues (such as the organizational’ and governance roles) and to embedded coaches who facilitate and ultimately unlock the intrinsic motivation that lies within all of us.

He talks about facilitated roles vs power roles, putting trust in the process, continuous practice (learning in the moment and applying immediately what you’ve just learned), how a facilitated team naturally addresses inclusion, and C-suite leaders being very uncomfortable high in the Swiss Alps.

Ultimately he invites managers to let go of their traditional manager roles and colleagues to pick up some of those roles - and why this is good for everyone.

This is one of two episodes. There is a companion Episode 7 with Sonja Robinson where we talk about peer coaching.

About GUEST

John Thompson

www.linkedin.com/in/ijohnt

The PCO Group https://www.peoplecentricorg.com

Resources mentioned:

Beyond empowerment - are we ready for the self-managed organization? - Doug Kirkpatrick at TEDxChico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4n3w4kMa4.

Doug Kirkpatrick https://dougkirkpatrick.com/

Advance – Gender Equality in Business https://WeAdvance.ch/

“Complete Employee Ownership – Your ‘CEO’ Role “ presented by PCO Group at Advance’s Future Workplace Workshop https://weadvance.ch/events/complete-employee-ownership-your-ceo-role/

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