Candid Craic by EQ Lab is a series of in-depth interviews covering emergent leadership theories and practices. Craic (/kræk/ KRAK) or crack is a term for news, fun, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland.
Candid Craic
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Candid Craic by EQ Lab is a series of in-depth interviews covering emergent leadership theories and practices. Craic (/kræk/ KRAK) or crack is a term for news, fun, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland.
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February 15, 2022
The struggle of wellbeing in a senior leadership role with Brian Henderson
<p>In this Candid Craic, we talk to Brian Henderson about his experience of struggling with his psychological and physiological wellbeing in a senior leadership role, and how he is using it to help inform current executives just how harmful at individual and organisational levels the experience can be.</p> <p>Brian explains his reaction on realising he was experiencing all the signs of poor wellbeing, and why others in the same position might be equally likely to shrug it off just as he did; how he finally came to terms with what he was going through; the clues and signals that one might be in the early stages of a mental health challenge; and the organisational conditions that contributed to it.</p> <p>He explains how he coped with stress prior to that moment, and learned to cope in a more holistic mind, body and spirit manner afterwards; and how that embodied, whole self contrasts with the fragmenting self he was experiencing as the workplace pressures starting ramping up.</p> <p>Reflecting on the irony of his colleagues best intentions arguably making things far worse, Brian explains how he is employing his leadership experience to help executives think more deeply about wellbeing beyond current practices; how and why design thinking can help that process; and how and why leaders, HR and business schools can contribute to creating future organisations that place wellbeing at the heart of work.</p>
February 8, 2022
Decrapifying work Colin Newlyn
<p>In this Candid Craic, we talk to Colin Newlyn about his mission to decrapify work.</p> <p>Colin explains how, despite the rhetoric, we seem to be moving away from the trust and autonomy of the working conditions he experienced in his early career to a more command and control structure, often infected by bullying and toxicity, and replete with technologies, practices and processes that seem to hinder productivity and innovation.</p> <p>He explains how he has begun to take the concept of self-organisation increasingly seriously, seeing it as a holistic toolkit that can create better organisations if only we could work out a way to strip away prevailing power dynamics. He further explains how he has taken up the role of an "agitator from the margins", trying to translate and interpret complex ideas into more digestible forms that people find engaging and useful.</p> <p>We then take a fascinating journey into the golden age of pirates, with Colin explaining how they perhaps invented the democratic-participatory organisational form; why recreating it might not require the complex overthinking that dominates the market; and how simple truths and human-centric skills might be more than enough.</p>
February 1, 2022
Adaptive facilitation in practice with Dr. Gemma Jiang
<p>In this Candid Craic, Gemma Jiang talks about her role as a catalyzing and unifying presence in the massively transdisciplinary research on the circular economy; how she employs a range of facilitation techniques to hold transformational spaces in which pluralistic solutions get generated via civil dialogue between experts in different domains; and how she operates in the enabling spaces between adaptive entrepreneurs and administrative bureaucrats.</p> <p>Gemma explains how adaptive facilitation works in practice, providing two concrete examples; talks about the struggles she has faced and still faces in getting traditional institutions to take seriously adaptive facilitation methodologies; and how egocentric posturing from subject-matter experts can suck the air out of even the best intentioned discussions without facilitation.</p> <p>We close with a deep exploration of why so few organisations take such methodologies of working seriously; why it is vital for them to start doing so if we are to move beyond the linear, scarcity-focused, industrial models of work; and what the world might look like if we could do so.</p>
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