Organizational Judgment

Judgments separate us from others. They hold us secure and tight in assumed positions of superiority.

What if we let the scaffolding of being judgmental drop away?

Can we really halt our knee jerk reflexes to label, categorize and evaluate people’s actions and words based our individually constructed value driven world view?

While good intentions and self-awareness are a start - they're not enough...

Stories help me quite.

Take a moment and please watch this short video...

Organizational Judgment from Terrence Gargiulo on Vimeo.

I've posted this video on my Voice Thread site - this a free service that allows people to post comments in a vareity of ways including audio (recorded either from your machines mic or even by dialing a phone number to record your comments), video comments, text, and the ability to upload images, documents, presentations, etc...

I'd love for you to share your thoughts, ideas and reactions with me and each other. Here's the link:

These are skills that can be developed. Organizational cultures can weave these into the fabric of their cultures and reap the performance benefits. Interested in learning more about these skills?

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Organizational Awareness

"AS IT IS ABOVE SO IT IS BELOW"

What can we learn about organizations from a 25,000 year old cave carving? The Venus of Lausells is a backdrop for this week's video blog reflection.

What is the intersection of all the little events popping like hot kernels of corn around us and the large macro forces in play in our organizations?

I'm advocating for better organizational awareness. Let my two minute video be a conversation starter...

Organizational Awareness from Terrence Gargiulo on Vimeo.

Here are a couple of thoughts on how we can put stories to work to help us develop greater organizational awareness of the small and large things:

1. We use stories to explain other people's behavior and develop strategies for how to interact with them.
   
   
2. We are also capable of considering alternative behaviors that go against our ingrained ones by being aware of what stories describe our nature and by imagining alternative ones.
   
   
3. Stories are the templates upon which new behaviors can be projected onto and actualized. We use stories to gain an understanding of who we are. Collectively our stories paint an accurate picture of who we are. If we can access this information, we give ourselves freedom. In other words we can break out of an old story and temporarily adopt a new one.

What can you add to this list?

Be sure to check out my awarding winning assessment tool. Story-based observational skills are at the heart of the model.

There are also a book of self-development exercises you can use to strengthen these skills in your self and others.

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Thanks!