As a leader and change-agent, participating in this research is about attending to one’s personal growth journey. Action-Research helps to increase an interviewee’s confidence thanks to a shift in purpose and intention. The invitation is to shift from performing, to both performing and learning. This action-research implies being open to see oneself differently, feeling more whole and broadening one’s perspective. As a result, moving from inner to interpersonal work becomes easier because one’s listening capacity shifts to become more open-hearted, with less judgement and with an intention to understand others.

This research provides a 360 snapshot view of the current capacity of a particular team to communicate in a collectively intelligent and efficient way. It is a qualitative mapping and quantitative analysis of any team-related potential blind-spots which negatively affect interpersonal influence communication. Each interviewed leader will have a 360 view of their team’s current capacity to have meaningful and crucial conversations. This helps access the collective intelligence via conscious communication, which helps everybody to become more inclusive and collaborative.

GreenElephant helps organisations transform their communication culture. This action-research generates mutual value for both Interviewees and Green Elephant in the form of new insights about how to transform and measure change in learning organisations. At an organisational level this helps to communicate a clear statement of intent in the context of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). 

The research assumption is that Humanity urgently needs to cultivate collectively intelligent ways of tackling the current global leadership and governance disconnects. This research aims to further Humanity’s understanding of what it takes to engage in more meaningful conversations and cultivate respectful business relations more in line with the UN sustainability goals. This research is the first phase of a multi-phased 10 year stewardship roadmap by Green Elephant.

This research enquiry will help to understand and improve the efficiency of interpersonal communication in a team of 5-30 people. Each interviewed leader will gain a 360 view of their team’s current capacity to have meaningful and crucial conversations, and will receive concrete recommendations for shifting their team’s communication behaviours through new habits. Each leader will also have the option of co-authoring a social-media friendly blog post with insights and learnings about this short personal learning journey. 

This research includes both a quantitative and a qualitative mapping with analysis of any team-related potential blind-spots which negatively affect interpersonal influence communication in the measured team. 

This Action-Research is based on the qualitative deep interview style proposed by MITxULab called “Presencing”. It is designed as an empirical way for both the interviewer and interviewees to engage in a new form of deep listening dialogue which combines rational scientific analysis with internally “sensed” knowledge. The aim is to tap into a new level of collective intelligence by using the most advanced methods used by social-researchers to better understand and tackle complex social situations and challenges. 

This explorative qualitative research will be augmented by some quantitative online research with the leader’s team via a typeform questionnaire. The summary will be co-published with the consent of each participant in an open-source blogging format which shares the key learning or insight which emerged from each. 

Each interviewed leader will be offered an oral conversational debrief of their team’s current capacity to have meaningful and crucial conversations. This research includes both a quantitative and a qualitative mapping with analysis of any team-related potential blind-spots which negatively affect interpersonal influence communication in the measured team.