CULTURE & CHANGE
Culture can be summed up as “the way we do things round here”.
When working on culture its essential to be honest about the reality of the behaviour, tone and sentiment evidenced at work every day.
We can help you articulate what your business stands for so that you can work to your strengths and create a positive culture for change.
Changes in
Legal Practice
It is widely agreed that over the next decade, the way legal services are delivered will change significantly.
Rising to the challenge of creating new ways of working whilst delivering client services is incredibly demanding. Individuals and firms need support in order to avoid an “ostrich-like” response: keeping your head buried does not mean the danger goes away!
Our invitation is to face into the challenge and figure out what to keep and what to let go. That starts at a personal level, by being self-aware, learning how change affects you and how you can adapt, collaborate and contribute to creating change.
Defining Culture
Your business story – does everyone know where your business began and the milestones which have shaped it along the way? What stories of triumph, disaster and determination does your business history have to offer? Knowing how your business arrived at this point, allows you to contribute to the story of its ongoing success.
Purpose & values – looking forward, what do you see? Do you know what your business purpose is? What do you stand for day-to-day and how is that manifest in the way you work? What are you collectively trying to achieve that can connect you with your colleagues and pull clients towards you?
Agreed behaviours – defining how the business brings its values to life gives individuals the tools to manage their own behaviour and others’ behaviour. Without setting expectations we cannot hold ourselves and other people to account. Without accountability, positive working cultures cannot survive.
CULTURE & CHANGE
How do you break out of the known? Whose permission do you need? What makes it possible to take a risk or try something? A culture which enables change provides answers to these questions.
Encouraging curiosity and cultivating a growth mindset are good starting points. Easily said yet tremendously difficult to do.
We can help you create the conditions in which people feel able to contribute ideas, take risks and work in new ways.
YOUR POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE
People need help to see what they can contribute to change and how. We can help with that.
We invite you on a journey to understand, foster, and deploy your inherent power to be a change-maker.
We will help you to break free of conventional thinking and open up your hearts and minds to the idea of creating change.
COLLABORATION
We all work together with others. We all collaborate to get things done. What more do we mean by “collaboration”?
At Athena Professional, we think of collaboration as a way of tapping into collective energy. By engaging deeply with people with very different approaches and experiences we can surface tensions, see perspectives, and identify what's emerging.
Its a tiny bit explosive: its not necessarily comfortable.
Its daring. Are you?
INTERGENERATIONAL WORKING
If you are excited by seeing the world through different eyes, shifting your thinking, learning from the as yet untutored, then this is fruitful ground for you.
Intergenerational working is a way of unlocking potential that has nothing to do with the bells and whistles of formal education.
It makes a powerful contribution to stepping out of the known and sharing new territory with people who represent a different version of the future.