Our final part of our three part series debunking some of the myths about how we lead and manage – from customer feedback to KPIs and performance. This third session in the series, “Leading for Aliveness: Rethinking Performance and Accountability,” explores how traditional approaches to targets and accountability can drain energy from organisations, and what it looks like to lead in a way that brings greater clarity, responsibility and “aliveness” to people and services.

Overview

This session questions the assumptions behind conventional performance management and accountability. Drawing on ideas from quantum mechanics and process philosophy, it disrupts the mechanistic, target-driven mindset that still dominates leadership in social housing.

Participants will explore how their presence and attention shape the “field” of organisational life, and how vitality, coherence and aliveness can provide a more humane and effective basis for leading people and serving communities.

What Participants Can Expect to Gain

• A clearer view of how performance systems can unintentionally drain energy, creativity and commitment.

• New ways of thinking inspired by quantum relationality – leadership as participation, not control.

• Insight into how their own presence and attention influence behaviour, culture and coherence.

• A felt sense of the difference between simply “keeping things going” and enabling genuine aliveness.

• A set of challenging questions about accountability, responsibility and what it means to lead in living systems.

About the Speaker

Mike Chitty is an experienced facilitator, trainer, coach and consultant who has worked across the public, private and third sectors in the UK and internationally. He focuses on fostering curiosity and reflection about the direction of progress in individuals, teams, organisations and systems, and is a strong advocate of process philosophy and an ethic of care as alternatives to conventional managerialism. Mike is particularly committed to supporting public service transformation, especially in health and local government.

Cost
Included as part of your DIN membership.