KINTSUGI: CHANGE AND STAY

The wheel keeps spinning, the goals push, the top-down directives don’t stop. We have to manage motivation, performance, ours and more. The modalities are new, the uncertainties are many. So how can we “stay” in this situation?

Many managers and many people who “meet” in these weeks are choosing (consciously?) the way to do: I act, I move, I push. How though? Manage a task with the same push as before is like not pushing.

The way we work is changing, people are not and will no longer be the same, neither collaborators, colleagues nor customers, and in addition we don’t know when we get out of it. That’s why energy doesn’t go to waste.

We process what has been and, for what is up to us, activate ourselves with new ways, reconstruct something different and better, such as the Japanese kintsugi technique that repairs ceramics with gold to make the object more precious, unique and unrepeatable.

As everything changes, let’s stop and see what we can change too. We will come out more centered and help ourselves or the people we manage to stop in the dark, without getting lost.

Enrica Birardi – HR Consultant Fluxus hr.