Your Relationship Energy Producers
Change through collective adaptability to multiple shifting perspectives
Inside-Out Energy
Growing your innate wisdom, intelligence and commitment, to deliver outcomes that really matter and make a positive difference to the quality and success of your life.
Outside-In Energy
Stimulates change by providing opportunities for cooperation, collaborative leadership and opportunities for system change. Enables a rapid and creative response to unpredictable events, new emerging opportunities, changing customer demands, co-evolving partnerships and adapting to challenges.
Top-Down Energy
Engaging and inspiring followers through active engagement. Following shared values and clear rules to get action towards a common cause or delivering an agreed outcome.
Bottom-Up Energy
Engaging colleagues customers and strategic partners in conversations designed to get coordinated and agile action around a shared vision and for what they really care about.
Explanation
Energy is the driving force in all systems. There is material energy such as gravity, light, molecules, etc., and intelligent energy in human systems like thought, emotion, memory, experience and power in relationships. When we free up and connect the energy available from multiple perspectives we greatly enhance our capacity for dynamic change. When we connect the energy in ourselves with energy in the system as a whole we get increasing returns.
We have to ask :
What can “I” do (with my inside-out perspective)
What “THEY” do (from their top-down perspective)
What can “WE” do together (with our bottom-up perspectives)
What can “IT” (social media) do (with its outside-in perspective)?
For example, we can get clarity about your dreams, intentions, talents and skills (inside-out energy), inspiration from someone knowledgeable in authority with special expertise (top-down energy), and support from colleagues or your own family to combine and coordinate action (bottom-up energy), even opportunities that suddenly emerge from unexpected events and demand a coordinated response (outside-in energy). When balanced these energy sources can be transformational.
Glenda Eoyang sees energy in complex systems stored in differences. In physical systems, batteries, springs, and chemical barriers that hold systemic energy. In human systems, difference hold they key to potential change. Race, power, expertise, culture, wealth, perspectives, and innumerable other differences generate tension. These tensions create the energy for human systems to adapt. When we are able to see, understand, and influence and agree on the differences, we can increase our adaptive capacity to reframe our thinking and shape the future. When we follow this rule, we help people.
