Ep. 95 Tamila Gresham and Simon Mont from Harmonize on new ways of seeing, being and working together
May 21, 2024
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Tamila Gresham and Simon Mont from Harmonize discuss developing ways of collaboration, using the lens of Power, Belonging, and Justice. They emphasize the need to align ways of seeing, being, and working together. Topics include conflict resilience, organizational dynamics, humility in management, and finding joy in collaborative environments.
Develop ways of seeing, being, and working together for highest alignment with vision.
Emphasize conflict resilience as core competency for sustainable management and unlocking creative potential.
Deep dives
Harmonize: Comprehensive Organizational Development and Analysis (CODA)
Harmonize, a worker-owned cooperative, focuses on providing education and partnership to groups aiming to enhance collaboration for collective good. Through their Comprehensive Organizational Development and Analysis (CODA) approach, they address various aspects like governance, conflict resolution, and board structuring, emphasizing holistic solutions. Their CODA framework includes elements such as structure alignment with values, promoting embodied awareness, and utilizing fractals for deep human relationship analysis.
Power, Belonging, and Justice (PBJ) Lens for Organizational Dynamics
Harmonize promotes the PBJ lens as a more precise tool compared to traditional diversity, equity, and inclusion frameworks, offering insight into power dynamics, belonging, and equitable resource distribution within organizations. This lens guides conflict resolution and decision-making, enabling a deeper understanding of identity-based impacts and historical contexts. By emphasizing power shifts, inclusive belonging, and social justice, organizations can foster greater collaboration and shared purpose.
Conflict Resilience Training for Sustainable Collaboration
Simon and Tamala advocate for conflict resilience as a proactive approach essential for organizations navigating power distribution challenges. They stress the transformative potential inherent in conflicts, viewing them as opportunities for growth and realignment. By developing conflict resilience as a core competency, organizations can sustainably manage tensions, foster inclusion, and unlock creative potential in collaborative endeavors.
Inner Sovereignty and Humility in Organizational Transformation
Emphasizing the significance of inner sovereignty and true humility, the podcast reflects on personal journeys in organizational change efforts. Finding deeper layers of truth and alignment requires introspection and discernment, moving beyond conditioned responses or social pressures. Recognizing the brilliance in oneself and others while maintaining humility fosters authentic engagement, propelling meaningful collaboration and evolution within organizational structures and relationships.
The way groups are working together is not working. But introducing new structures alone is not enough. Tamila and Simon talk to me about how we need to develop our ways of seeing, being and working together if we want to act in the highest possible alignment with our vision. A key part of this is using the lens of Power, Belonging and Justice (PBJ) and strengthening our muscle in Conflict Resilience. Strap in for some powerful wisdom, giggles and deep learning.
Harmonize is a worker-owned cooperative that helps groups work together through Comprehensive Organizational Development and Analysis (CODA™). Tamila and Simon are the co-founders of Harmonize.