Tim Willard #DESIGNtoCHANGE BACKstage PODcast With Ruud Janssen

Meet Tim Willard, CED is the founding partner at navigate in Cape Town South Africa, https://www.linkedin.com/in/linkedintimwillard/ as he speaks with Ruud Janssen of the Event Design Collective about his Horizons of Change and Claiming Time for change conversations. navigate is a management consulting agency working at the intersection of strategic planning, organisational culture and growth innovation. Tim works with leaders and their teams to navigate positive change and accelerate growth - 'helping change happen' , designing and supporting strategy development and activation processes and in so doing helping clients scale with success. In the podcast episode we address several of Tim's activities and below you will find a listing of the links they relate to: -About navigate... www.navigate.co.za -About Tim www.timwillard.co.za -About SHAWCO (UCT Student Health and Welfare Centres Organisation) https://shawco.org/ -About Cape Town Cycle Tour https://capetowncycletourtrust.com/ -About scenario learning ... and creative mornings.. https://www.navigate.co.za/navigatescenarios PS: Cape to Cape Cycle Tour Challenge Tim mentioned = www.point2pointchallenge.co.za And below you will see the answers to the questions we discuss in the Onstage PODcast episode answered by Tim in the worksheet below: - Worksheet 6. Claiming Time - Design to Change page 146 has a new response: * What did you do previously, whereby you were not being taken seriously when event owners were having the conversation about change?
 I was 'unconscious' to their needs ... didn't spend enough time seeing their world from their perspective and invested too much energy in trying to force them to see their world from my point of view... 

In a sense, they may have felt I both was and would be wasting their time... * When asking yourself: “Why are people not taking the design process seriously?”
 I'd not enabled the design team to understand why the process was important, through lack of 'claiming time'.... 
So perhaps my values and needs to get it done got int the way of other participants needs... * What buttons are you pushing to get what you need?
 Having a very clear appreciation for the Event Owner's values set...
Getting the Event Owner to articulate that value set...
Introducing values that are perhaps not in the Event Owner's value set which could replace those in their current set... which will support shift/change...
Giving Event Owners a clear understanding of what is at stake should they not provide time i.e. the need to allocate time
(Perhaps counterintuitively) not pushing any more buttons... providing the Event Owner with the space to think/reflect and come to their own conclusion... to push the button! * How can you and your team zoom out and empathize with the event owner to address their required outcomes?
Having claimed time, holding the process so they can trust it, and being committed...
Engaging respectfully...
Active listening... 
Delivering quality... conformance to requirements... * Is your event owner not ready or are you as the event designer not ready?
Its possibly a bit of both... but without both being 'ready', delivering a positive outcome will be challenging...
Implicit in readiness, is trust... and the journey can only successfully continue if we both put our full trust in the process... Keen to find out more about #DESIGNtoCHANGE? Check out the microsite at https://designtochange.online