Many of our organisations are seeking to unlock a new type of dynamic and collective capacity, an invested type of engagement at scale. A capability that will help them to collaborate, innovate, find momentum, and truly change. There is a sense of a world shifting around us, of aggressive commercial pressures, and a war for talent, as well as ongoing discussions about what work ‘is’ and where work ‘happens’.

In this session we will focus on the idea of Collective Capability: how ‘we’ are more than simply the sum of the parts. Or rather, how we can be if we are interconnected, find trust, and are able to collaborate, both through our natural social connection, and in dialogue with emergent AI technologies.

The work shared in this session draws upon Julian’s core work on the Social Age, and aspects of Social Leadership, as well as more recent work on Learning Science, with a focus on collective capability (emergence) and social metacognition (how we ‘make sense’ together, and think together).

This work takes place against the backdrop of viewing the organisation itself as an ecosystem, and building an understanding of how, and where, we are connected, of what we do with that connection, and crucially how we can build dynamic capability within our leadership populations to mobilise a new type of capability, at scale.

Julian Stodd

Captain

Sea Salt Learning