Jon Townsin
The aim of these articles is to say something significant about the struggles everybody faces in the organisations in which they work in a short and challenging way.
The hope is that they will seed thoughts and conversations — hence the series title — Provocative conversations.
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♦ 0 Introduction: Why so provocative?
♦ 1 Reflections: On single and double loop learning
♦ 2 Befriending tension: Lessons from the edge of chaos
♦ 3 Born under a good sign: Learned optimism for a lucky future
♦ 4 Building bridges: Why relationships go awry
♦ 5 To trust or not to trust: A very human dilemma
♦ 6 Complexity and all that jazz: From planning to improvisation
♦ 7 Democracy at work: Not in my back yard!
♦ 8 Developing managers: Seeking wisdom in a clever world
♦ 9 Facilitating change: Grasping the nettle to avoid the sting
♦ 10 First person or third? The power of conversations...
♦ 11 Freedom and accountability: Who’s life is it anyway?
♦ 12 Initiativitis: A disease of organisations
♦ 13 Like a fish out of water: The Impact of the systemic idea
♦ 14 Resolving dilemmas: From either/or to both/and thinking
♦ 15 Sailing north(ish): The directive role of the leader
♦ 16 Me first or after you? A top down revolution in organisations
♦ 17 Simplexity: The tragedy of the commons
♦ 18 Between knowing and doing: To see far is one thing. To go there...
♦ 19 You get what you give: So how are you really doing?
♦ 20 Appreciating difference: Accentuating the positive
About the author |
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Jon is a coach, facilitator and writer who combines a thorough knowledge of people and groups with an easy, approachable style that allows people to be at their best. He has worked in people-related functions across several health related sectors over 25 years. Beginning his career in the NHS, Jon experienced organisational change for the first time in general and acute hospitals, as well as mental health institutions. He moved to the private medical sector where he earned his first management team wings in a fiercely commercial environment. He moved to the pharmaceutical/chemical industry where the pace of change showed no signs of abating. He began to be fascinated by the fragmenting and reforming patterns that characterise working life and life in general. A psychologist by training, Jon developed his interest in people at work by completing an MSc in organisation development at Ashridge business school in 2000. ”It was a seminal point in my career where I stopped thinking of people as parts in a well-oiled machine (or not) and started remembering they were people — logical, emotional, paradoxical and complex,“ says Jon He is skilled in the arts of psychometric assessment and coaching. Currently he is working toward his PhD into the integration of people and groups. His company, Acintya, has been in the business of developing people for 10 years working across the three interrelated spheres of individual, team and organisation development. Within each area he helps to: raise awareness of the patterns of behaviour in any given situation; facilitate insight into how people themselves co-create patterns of behaviour and; encourage purposeful action to make beneficial changes to those patterns. Acintya Chapel House Weston Newbury RG20 8JA office: 01488 648810 mobile: 07780 676051 email: jon.townsin@acintya.co.uk www.acintya.co.uk |
