It's good to be common

 

Why do I say it’s good to be common? You aren’t common and you know it. Everyone of us is special.

8028255266?profile=originalI am a member of several tribes. There is my closest group of friends, we are a tribe from high school. My golfing buddies I do a trip with every year. My neighbours with whom a beer club was born. Plus my professional tribes ranging from technical specialties in engineering, strategy and risk to my tribe of “sole practitioners” that I hang out with every quarter.

The thread that is woven through each one of these tribes is commonality. For each there is one strong common bond that makes us want to be together and provides our focus.

Last blog I spoke about building a tribe of advocates to preach your mantra. In case you missed it, I also provided a link to a paper I have written on the subject called Pathways to Partnership.

When you are tribe building, be very clear on the commonality of the tribe and what you want the focus to be on. The commonality may first be identified as all being “volunteered” by a manager to be part of the tribe. However, you need to find a much stronger common bond to rally around. Some kind of holy grail such as the first group to make a change project stick for longer than three months.

Without a clear, strong and desirable purpose, a tribe will soon falter.

https://www.bryanwhitefield.com.au/

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Bryan is a management consultant operating since 2001, specialising in risk-based decision making and influencing decision makers, born from his more than twenty years of facilitating executive and board workshops.

Bryan’s experience as a risk practitioner includes the design and implementation of risk management programs for more than 150 organisations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Bryan is the author of Risky Business : How Successful Organisations Embrace Uncertainty; Persuasive Advising : How to Turn Red Tape into Blue Ribbon, and Team Think : Unlock the Power of the Collective Mind [to be published in 2022].

He is licenced by the RMIA as a Certified Chief Risk Officer (CCRO) and is the designer and facilitator of their flagship Enterprise Risk Course since 2019.

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