Event: World Values Day Knowledge Café 2022 (emea/americas) 20th October 2022

Title: World Values Day Knowledge Café 2022

Region: EMEA/AMERICAS

Date: Thursday 20th, October 2022

Time: 17:00 to 19:00, London time (Your Time Zone)

Location: Online Zoom Event

Price: Free

Registration: Thursday 20th October (EMEA/AMERICAS)

Choose a Café to suit your time zone

To make the World Values Day Knowledge Café genuinely global, it is being run twice this year at times convenient for where ever you live in the world.

You are, of course, free to select either Café if you would rather get up early or say up late.

The first Café will be held on Thursday 20th October from 17:00 to 19:00 London, UK time to suit participants in the EMEA and Americas regions. You can check the time in your location on timeanddate.com.

The second Café will be held on Friday 21st October from 08:00 to 10:00 London, UK time to suit participants in the Asia-Pacific region. You can check the time in your location on timeanddate.com.

World Values Day is 20th October 2022

World Values Day is an annual campaign to increase the worldwide awareness and practice of values.

It allows us to think about our most deeply held values and explore and act on them with others.

This year's theme is Values for Community.

For the last six years, Charles Fowler and I have run a Knowledge Café as part of World Values Day. Charles helps coordinate World Values Day. He is part of the Steering Group of the UK Values Alliance and is Chair of the Human Values Foundation.

The Café Speaker

Charles and I are delighted to have Henry Mintzberg join us this year as the speaker. Well, not quite as a speaker. Given the conversational nature of the Café, I plan to have a short conversation with Henry to trigger the Café conversation itself.

I am sure most of you are familiar with Henry's work. He is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University in Canada and an internationally renowned speaker and author on organization and management.

Theme: What is Communityship, and what is the role of values?

In an article in the Harvard Business Review, Rebuilding Companies as Communities, Henry talks about a concept called communityship. This is what he says about the idea:

How can you recognize communityship?

That’s easy. You have found it when you walk into an organization and are struck by the energy in the place, the personal commitment of the people and their collective engagement in what they are doing.

These people don’t have to be formally empowered because they are naturally engaged. The organization respects them so they respect it.

They don’t live in mortal fear of being fired en mass because some “leader” hasn’t made his or her numbers.

Imagine an economy made up of such organizations.

Credit: Henry Mintzberg

In my introductory conversation with Henry, I will ask him to describe communityship and how he sees the role of values in nurturing communityship.

After our conversation, we will go into Café mode, where you will have the opportunity to discuss how you see communityship and the role values play.

Reading Material

Please read this post in my blook about communityship if you have the time, as it will help set the context for the conversation. It is not a prerequisite.

The Café Process

After the introduction, Henry will pose the question, and we will then have three rounds of small group conversations, where we split up into small groups of 3 or 4 and go into Zoom break-out rooms to discuss the question.

Finally, we will return to the main room to share our thoughts and insights as a whole group.

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