Griff Griffiths / cocomotion
I specialise in supporting groups and individuals in navigating uncertainty inside organisations.
As well as working independently, I'm a Consulting Associate at, and UK Lead for, the Human Systems Dynamics Institute whose practical and accessible approach to working with uncertainty I use and teach.
I'm also an Associate at the leadership institute Roffey Park.
Cocomotion is a story of navigating uncertainty to create a self-managing network. It was created originally as a network of coaches with the slogan of “confidence through community”. The idea was that as a network or community, we would be better able to win and deliver worthwhile projects, than we would as individual practitioners.
But how to organise it? I had a vision of a community able to use its diverse skills and experience to spontaneously create projects with only minimal central control, projects which motivated its members and provided value to its customers. I started to think of Cocomotion as a broad similarity of skills and interests which provided an identity, acting as a container for a rich diversity which, when connected, would create energy, possibility, and worthwhile work.
Well, this is not so easy to build. It requires a critical shift in mindset for people schooled in hierarchies - people like us. I developed my own community model for explaining Cocomotion to people, but it wasn't until I started to apply some methods from Human Systems Dynamics that I began to see how we could create the conditions for a community to flourish.
My subsequent development of the network won me ODN Europe’s Community Award, and although no longer a coaching network, the Cocomotion experience provided me with the basis for my current work in self-managing networks.
Clients including the UK Civil Service are recognising the immense value that can be added by creating this kind of network.
Griff combines a technical corporate background with a deep understanding of Human Systems Dynamics to produce innovative and engaging OD solutions that inspire action.”
I love working with Griff. He doesn’t come from the HR/OD tradition and so provokes some interesting and different ways of thinking. He creates great partnerships and gives them an added twist!
The spirit of Cocomotion is the same spirit that founded the field of Organisation Development.