Roisin Markham

Last week during a workshop enough space had been made for clarity and emergence. It is a wonderful process to facilitate.

I’d over shared what I thought about the direction a client were taking in a programme after I rolled off it. Our client responded by hiring us for a lessons learnt and strategic review of that multi year program. Speaking out of turn when you’re passionate has always been a good edge. My broader work experience gives me insights in ways others don’t see. Luckily I am also skilled at designing spaces people can navigate to build on what’s strong, identify their own gaps and pathways forward.

I love a good retro. If you’ve worked with me as a project manager you’ll know that. We can learn a lot from where we have been but not everything. The navigation through a change state from where a programme started to where it still needs to travel is the gap we see in operationalising strategy. A sweet spot for me.

Improving process and outcomes require a pause, especially after piloting. Stopping for consideration of change state, realignment to policy + goals, understanding the system, mapping and tracking from pilots, launch and into BAU. People are the complexity to this process.

As I kick into my new week I am fascinated yet again, that a well designed workshop container produces space for a team to collaborate and move the business on. It’s satisfying.

Across business units and silos a management team had stepped into the room and done the work. After putting a lot of pre-work into the structure and facilitation of the workshop I’m processing it now. The container is important as is the process but only so much as to make space for people to collaborate, listen, work together towards a coherent outcome.

As I move to document and distil the broader qualitative work I am looking forward to writing the work, completing the graphic illustrations and bubbling up insights.

Ultimately I’m in the so what and what now stage. Holding the ambition and creating good structures for impact.

There are 969 business working days till 2030, what impact are you delivering.