Collaboration for good... making it happen Written by Ethan Forrester Over a week ago, I had an insightful chat with a headteacher at a school in the Merseyside area. Some key themes started to emerge relating to cohesion between the local authority and the school and...

Collaboration for good? Why and why now: The Case for Change Written by Ethan Forrester Since starting my research project, I have been keen to set the scene in my head of how the education system in Liverpool is performing compared to the rest of the UK. I found some...

So………. where do you work?This is probably one of the first questions when we meet someone for the first time. I expect that the questioner isn’t that interested in “where I work,” (second desk on the left by the window) but who do I work for and what do I do? However,...

Healthy Organisation - Join the ConversationI have been sharing a number of articles on this subject which may have been of interest to some. We are following up the articles with an offer.At Ai Change Management we are hosting an OD Community of Practice. You can...

Healthy Organisation?The results are in……. I recently invited readers to participate in a poll followed by a series of observations on the subject of Healthy Organisations. I asked readers to choose one of the following options: The Health of my Organisation 1. Could...

Organisation Design - What is it? Who needs it? “Do I need to read this? Organisation Design (whatever it is) is not on my list.”Let me tell you a short true story, that you may recognise.I bought a new flat pack book case. I get it home and I empty the contents of...

Are they the same thing? Ask me six months ago and I would say , yes of course, yet I am now discovering an unsettling reality. Work and home are two good friends of mine but I have always tried to keep them apart, seeing the former as somewhat of an intruder on my...