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What is "Human-Centricity"?

Being human-centred means adapting to contexts in a way that works with people, not against them. Human-centred organisations put people's needs, abilities, experiences, values, ways of thinking, decision-making, and actions - all at the core of their systems, processes, and the surrounding infrastructure. Human-centred approaches are often misunderstood as privileging humans over everything else. In reality, they acknowledge that human wellbeing (like organisational wellbeing) is a part of (and not apart from) environmental health and technological systems. Designing for people includes designing responsibly for the ecosystems that we depend on.

Human-centred leadership

Human-centred leadership (sometimes also referred to as simply "human leadership", and encompassing "human-centred management" or "humanagement") includes creating meaning, trusting colleagues, fostering psychological safety, considering wellbeing, encouraging connection, understanding context, opening up innovation to everyone, and understanding the value of listening, hope, fairness and kindness. It encompasses the mindsets and skillsets of changemakers, managers, and leaders.

Human-centred organisations

Human-centred organisations (sometimes also referred to as simply "human organisations") consider things through both an organisational lens (strategy, character, resilience, transformation, empowerment, leadership) and a human lens (meaning, belonging, security, connection, freedom, and equity).

Human-centred transformational change

Human-centred transformational change in organisations is based on a deep understanding of people, listening, co-creating, motivating, engaging, and distributing ownership. It is about building a shared will to act. It is about creating a culture where everyone can innovate.

Human-centred government

Human-centred government means compassion in politics. It means truth, democratised decision-making, shared ownership, and people-centred public services. It means measuring progress beyond GDP, long-term thinking, and the fostering of resilient communities.

Human-centred transformational change campaigns

Human-centred transformational change campaigns are for motivating millions of people to achieve personal and community resilience in the face of the major changes we face including mental health, physical health, extreme weather events, climate change, the advent of AI, social unrest, increased polarity, and many other contextual issues. It involves understanding human behaviours, and co-creating human-centred strategies, journey plans, and solutions.

What is "Resilience"?

Resilience for us means securing a successful long-term future. It’s the ability to predict, prepare for, adapt to, and take control of change. It's the ability to survive and thrive.

Individual resilience

As far as individual resilience is concerned, every organisation has a duty of care to protect their people from the risks of burnout, stress, and other mental health issues - and to foster wellbeing and hope.

Organisational resilience

Organisational resilience describes an organisation's ability to successfully anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to change over time. It means learning from the past, improving current performance, and successfully transforming for the future. It includes financial performance, but securing an organisation’s long-term future means much more than that. It also means fostering trust, connection, networks, partnerships, communities, and marketplaces. It comes from tuning into context and then translating context into an understanding of risk and opportunity. It comes from listening to, understanding, and predicting the future needs of customers. It comes from trusting colleagues and giving them freedom within a framework so that innovation is open to everyone. All in service of a shared purpose, and a desire to create a stronger organisation than the one you inherited.

Systemic resilience

Systemic resilience describes the ability of a connected system to successfully respond to and adapt to change over time. It encompasses connection across all our services – financial, commercial, water, energy, homes, transport, health, education, technology, science... Systemic resilience comes from our support networks, our communities and places, schools and universities, regulators and governments. It comes from identifying and removing risk and systemic barriers - including barriers between people.

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