Teal Organisations
Our culture, structure and practices are inspired by a worldwide community creating the next evolution of how organisations can work, known as Teal Organisations.
“Three breakthroughs and a metaphor” is how Frederic Laloux presents the key features of Teal Organisations in his revolutionary 2015 text: Reinventing Organisations.
The breakthroughs
Self-management: Teal Organisations have found the key to operate effectively with a system based on peer relationships, without the need for hierarchy or consensus.
Wholeness: Organisations have always been places that encourage people to show up with a narrow “professional” self and to check other parts of the self at the door. They often require us to show a masculine resolve, to display determination and strength, and to hide doubts and vulnerability. Rationality rules as king, while the emotional, intuitive, and spiritual parts of ourselves often feel unwelcome, out of place. Teal Organisations have developed a consistent set of practices that invite us to reclaim our inner wholeness and bring all of who we are to work.
Evolutionary purpose: Teal Organisations are seen as having a life and a sense of direction of their own. Instead of trying to predict and control the future, members of the organization are invited to listen in and understand what the organization wants to become, what purpose it wants to serve.
The Metaphor
“… the organisation is a living organism or living system.”
Which is distinguished from the more common metaphors of the past and present, with the organisation as a ‘machine’ or ‘family’. Teal Organisations are an expression of human evolution.
