Upgrade your
business culture
- We’ll show you how!

Any business have its own unique culture landscape. That landscape determines what is easy and what is hard to accomplish in relation to the chosen direction. Upgrading our inner human operating system is the only way to get ahead with the culture challenge we all face in the growing complexity and the general volatility of the world.

How do you upgrade the re:lead way?

At it’s core all of our lives are deeply relational.
re:lead’s upgrade approach taps effectively into 3 main areas of human growth:

  • deepening your connection with yourself

  • improving your relation with others

  • expanding your ability to sense, make sense of and influence the larger systems that you are part of.  

Upgrading these three areas makes the accomplishment of your ambitions much easier to manifest.  

Key aspects to understand in connection with upgrading

  1. Each aspect of the upgrade circle is important and needs to be balanced for an effective inner operating system: e.g. your ‘open and engaged inner state of being’ is critical for sensing tensions, taking a wider perspective, cultivating trust, co-creating solutions and committing to courageous action.

  2. You can switch your cultural or personal ‘inner operating system’ from being in ‘stagnant’ or ’depletion’ mode to being in ‘growth and regeneration’ mode – thus accelerating growth and transformation while getting things done.

  3. As you upgrade your inner operating system capacity it spirals out to include and take into account more perspectives, nuances, concerns, options and realities. This strengthens your core ability to relate and connect to yourself, others, systems, this time & place, and what that calls you to take on in your personal leadership.

Focusing on our inner development is a global movement

The re:lead way of working is tapping into a global movement that have been named Inner Development Goals and which is spreading around the globe from individuals, to organisations and whole countries.
Focus is on building the inner capacities needed to thrive in our increasingly complex environment and to solve the most wicked challenges threatening the livelihood of future generations.

Organisational Pain Points that tells you an upgrade is needed:

  • Leaders and employees that are overworked, stressed, and lacking a deeper sense of meaning in their job.

  • Teams and organisations not aligned, engaged or adaptive enough to thrive and adjust in a complex, fast changing world of uncertainty.  

  • Leaders and employees wasting energy and ressources on drama, playing politics, safeguarding ego’s, hiding faults and weaknesses.

  • Suboptimization, silo’s and ‘us vs. them’ thinking and behaviour across functions and departments.

  • Sluggish decision making and execution hampered by meeting and mail overload, unclear roles and mandates. Lack of candid, timely and targeted information sharing and feedback.

Focus on 8 essential capacities can upgrade your leadership and organisational culture

Learn more about the
8 Essential Leadership Capacities

  • We all know the satisfaction and energy that comes from collaborations where we dare to show who we are and are passionate about as well as when we are openly vulnerable or in doubt. People usually reach out, support or dare to show themself in a vulnerable light.

    These are fundamental capacities but which should be continually trained and developed.

  • All interpersonal processes can lead to stagnation, deterioration or development. This is true for couples, in families and at work. Healthy group dynamics is a crucial condition in order to maintain work joy, to grow and develop with every task you take on both as an employee and as a leader.

    At re:lead it is our experience that all groups and work relations can develop, mature and unfold more of the inherent potential.

  • In most cases “Agile” only refers to a structure and process of work. In order to achieve a work culture that works agile, we need to also focus on two large areas: Mindset and Behaviour. No structure or process can ever account for the personal aspect we as individuals bring to work.

    At re:lead we work with bringing “Relating” to your agile setup.

  • At re:lead we work with trust and psychological safety as a business driver. They are the most important ingrediences in team performance. One of the best ways to work with trust and psychological safety is to get to know each other, dare to share stories of failure and learning, and sharing your personal areas of improvement.

  • When we have to upgrade the way we exercise leadership, the will and courage to use everyday opportunities and challenges to experiment and improvise is essential.

    We are naturally born with an impulse 'learning by doing', but culturally, analytical and instrumental management thinking has had a downside. Thinking, analysis and planning have been separated from execution.

    In re:lead, we use a number of simple approaches and tools that help raise awareness and support development and learning in everyday life.

  • Everyone is talking about the world becoming more complex. At the same time, many people say that it is important that we do not make things more complex than they really are! It calls for our contextual discernment and approach as well as our ability to see both the parts and the whole. To become better at training this in everyday life, we need some good tools in the form of mental models that sharpen the thinking that precedes action.

    At re:lead we use two of the best and most accessible mental models for effective decision-making and action in complexity: Cynefin and Palarity mapping. These models focus on people and our interaction with everything around us.

  • We all have blind spots and unexplored areas of our personality, and it is a lifelong effort to create a nuanced, accepting and self-responsible understanding. It cannot be done once and for all. Through life, new opportunities arise to get to know oneself better, and every time we make an effort to do so, we help our interaction with others to be less characterized by inattention, projections or shifts of responsibility.

    In re:lead, we work consistently and systematically with the development of what we generally call professional-personal development.

  • Exploring the Map for human meaning-making provides us with a new lens to support both our own development and the development of others.

    At re:lead we currently use two different assessments that rest on the shoulders of the research in Adult Development. Both assessments gives you a deep understanding of Developmental inquiry and puts forth a hypothesis about the center for your current meaningmaking, your trailing and leading edge and the most valuable place on which to focus in your current upgrade focus. Read more

We have some key principles that applies to all the culture work we do

Inspired by Søren Kierkegaards “the art of helping another human being…..” we work by some key helping principles that accelerates human growth and understanding:

We work with “real life and reality” as it is experienced by individuals - in the present moment!

We foster an open and transparent dialogue to explore reality - rather than a “game of competing agenda’s and “right and wrong” judgement

We focus on clear and transparent “I’s” as the foundation for a strong experience “WE”!

We work tension driven where appropriate (sense and respond) more than “output driven” (predict and control)

All participants share responsibility for the relational dynamics AND the leader of team or organisation holds the main responsibility