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Hello Mavericks<\/span><\/div>\n
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Welcome to Maverick Minds first newsletter for 2017. \u00a0While the Christmas holiday season may feel like a distant memory we can remind ourselves throughout the demands of the year to slow down, take a breath, recharge and ensure your wellbeing and those around you remains part of the big picture.\u00a0

I\u2019d love to share with you a few ideas and opportunities for the Year of the Rooster.\u00a0 The start of a new year can bring a sense of hope and new possibilities.\u00a0 You may have some new years resolutions or you may have decided not to make any.\u00a0

Whatever your approach for entering a new year it is worth considering where you will focus your energy, time and resources.\u00a0 Just as the end of the year is one for reflection, the start of the year is a good time to intentionally imagine, plan and consider what you would like to create.\u00a0

We know that life presents all sorts of challenges and opportunities.\u00a0 So how can we set ourselves up well to capitalise on what is already available or the unforeseen opportunities?\u00a0 What are some of the strategies you have in place to cultivate new connections, follow up existing commitments and be prepared for anything in between?\u00a0

Ah\u2026 welcome to the VUCA world in which we live.

Working with a group at the start of the year it was one of the questions I posed.\u00a0 Given everyone had just returned from holidays, sand, sea, snow, and sleep were still at the forefront for people as they began to shift gears for the year ahead.\u00a0 It was a provocative question to get them to think about what qualities, from their recent break, they could or would bring with them into the year ahead.

So Mavericks I ask you the same question<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 what were the things you did over the break that nourished your sense of wellbeing.\u00a0 And while the response might be \u2018not working\u2019 I\u2019m not convinced that really is the major issue.

And I\u2019ll tell you why.

Recently I\u2019ve had a couple of conversations with people who had taken time off from work \u2013 a sabbatical of sorts either deliberately chosen or through their redundancy.\u00a0 For various reasons both parties decided after a year or two it was time to return to work.\u00a0 There were comparisons in their stories.\u00a0

This included having structure in their day, connections with others, and work providing some aspect of meaning or purpose.\u00a0 Many of us have a complex relationship with work. \u00a0I love you!\u00a0 I hate you!

This is not unusual or such a bad thing.\u00a0 What it does offer is an opening to understand the aspects of work we find enjoyable and meaningful, and to consider the parts that create frustration and disappointment.\u00a0 That professional reflection, questioning and inquiry may provide insight into discovering avenues that provide opportunities to do more of what we find meaningful.\u00a0 Dissatisfaction can be a great catalyst to try something new.\u00a0 It provides food for thought in deepening our understanding of what work does mean to us. Aspects of this are explored by writer and philosopher Alain De Botton\u2019s in his book\u00a0‘The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work<\/i>‘.

As we proceed into 2017 it\u2019s easy to get swept up in the demands and busyness of work.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to fall into the habit of complaining about work. It\u2019s easy to forget the joy, creativity, meaning, mastery of skills and sense of accomplishment that work can bring.\u00a0

So before you let 2017 run away and fall into the scourge of \u2018busyness\u2019 and unhelpful habits why not allow yourself the time you deserve to consider the following.\u00a0 This is something you can do on your own, for your own personal and professional inquiry and with others in your organisation.

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Purpose\/Multiple Purposes<\/b>: think about your sense of purpose or purposes. You might have multiple purposes.\u00a0 What are they? Purpose is the big picture. \u00a0Why do you do what you?\u00a0 Why do you do the work you do? \u00a0Do you have clarity around this? Why does your business do what it does? Do the people you work with hold similar views?\u00a0 \u00a0

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Intention:<\/b>\u00a0starting the day with intentions that support your purpose is useful.\u00a0 Intention focuses on the things you do in relation to your purpose\/s.\u00a0 It focuses on what helps rather than hinders.\u00a0 Setting intentions helps guide thoughts, attitude and action.\u00a0 Teams can set intentions.

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Values and Meaning:<\/b>\u00a0 Do your values connect with your purpose?\u00a0 Is there synergy here or is there a mismatch?\u00a0 For instance if doing creative work is something you value does your big picture purpose align with this? Does your big picture purposes provide opportunity for this to happen? Are their shared values across your organsiation? Is meaning something you have the courage to talk about in your organisation?

Connection across these areas can lead to great satisfaction and outcomes. Disconnect provides creative tension for innovation and transformation.\u00a0 Think of a pearl – it is through an irritant getting into the oyster that a pearl is formed.\u00a0 Look at the exquisite beauty formed from an annoying disturbance or disruption.

It is the same for innovation.\u00a0<\/b>

The areas that cause tension, disturbances and disruption are ripe for picking in terms of innovation.\u00a0 Innovation is not necessarily about quantity or scale \u2013 both are important.\u00a0 Think about where opportunity for innovation lies in your business or your personal life.\u00a0 Does the purpose of your idea help improve things, create value, and benefit people.\u00a0 If so then the innovation is significant and worth acknowledging.\u00a0 If not what can you do to work towards this what changes can you make to add value.

Recently I designed and delivered innovation workshops for an engineering organisation.\u00a0 A discussion unfolded about everyday innovation.\u00a0 This is something we need to be mindful about.\u00a0 It\u2019s too easy to sweep or step over the daily innovations that go on in organisations.\u00a0 It\u2019s too easy to dismiss the significant daily changes and commitments with make in our personal lives.\u00a0 We need to do both. Have the big picture purpose, explore innovations and support that with everyday intentions and values to help guide us.\u00a0 There are multiple ways organsiations can shift from being average to being great.

These are just a few things to inspire change and innovation:
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