Mark Cole

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@LBACSimon Hopefully! That’s the optimal outcome!

@reflectservices And laugh a lot with your co workers in an office MC? 😉

@HelenBevan I hope that it passes sooner than you expect, Helen, and that it ends up touching you lightly. A salutary lesson that it is still with us and continues to have an impact.

I haven’t posted any content on X/Twitter the last few days. It’s because I went to the Academy of Management conference in Chicago & returned with a severe case of Covid. It has wiped me out & it’s not retreating quickly. I’ll start posting again as soon as I feel better. Helen

A perspective on how structural and systemic working practices are impacted by crises, such as the pandemic...and how we might capitalise on these instances to support people to surface, transfer and apply their learning on a business-as-usual basis. integratedcarejournal.com/making-sense-o…

@charlie_psych But while being the jokey maverick seems to give me licence to speak, it paradoxically allows others not to pay any attention to what’s said and, if they do happen to hear it, not to take it seriously.

@charlie_psych I’ve certainly spent some time considering my presence at work; my relationship with authority/power; and how others might see me in the workplace…and how I see myself. It led to an exploration of the jester in organisational life…and how I embraced that role to find my voice.

When you challenge the status quo, you risk that the difference you bring gets positioned as somehow weird, irrelevant, or missing the point. If we're serious about diversity & belonging like we say we are, this is an important moment to listen & to say "thanks for sharing this".

@AlisonSmith29 “I gotta change my shirt, I’m sweating…quite a bit!” 😉

How can we work together to dismantle corporate dictatorship and challenge the neo-feudalism that can be seen in our relationships within hierarchy in the contemporary workplace? radicalod.org/2024/03/20/cor…

Can we tackle organisational anarchy by mobilizing ideas from anarchism, specifically in regard to health and social care? linkedin.com/posts/mark-col…

I'm hosting Unpacking Power 2024 #1. Make sure to attend it on February 6. linkedin.com/events/unpacki…

I'm hosting some events with John Higgins over the coming months for NHS people. We'll be looking at how OD can assert itself better in health care...and how we can best navigate (and change) the politics of the NHS. Details via this link... linkedin.com/posts/mark-col…

I'd love it if you could join with me to engage in unpacking power in the workplace. These sessions offer insight into ways of thinking about power in this context and space for us to consider our individual and collective experience of it.

Loving quiz and game shows as I do, here are some observations I feel moved to make in light of two formats that I have viewed recently - and the lessons they might contain for people looking to lead in corporate life radicalod.org/2023/12/18/lea…

I'm running the Unpacking Power workshop again three times early in 2024. Details via the links... Tuesday 6 February 2024, 0930-1230: eventbrite.com/e/776292500767… Wednesday 13 March 2024, 1330-1630: eventbrite.com/e/776332731097… Thursday 25 April 2024, 0930-1230: eventbrite.com/e/776334014937…

Voice and silence is so often determined by our circumstances, by the labels applied to us and the context in which we find ourselves. radicalod.org/2023/12/07/wor…

@AlisonSmith29 We need to go beyond one single day, Alison, to actively disturb largely unacknowledged workplace practices that reflect the fact that extraversion is seen as “normal” in corporate contexts and introversion is “othered” as something that needs to be fixed.