Greetings!, welcome to Xenergie's October edition
Sensing the Future
The passing of Steve Jobs holds up the gauntlet to carry on what he began. It's becoming clearer and clearer that the world is in change. Yesterdays assumptions no longer fit and people are beginning to find new ways to work in order to make progress. This needs temporary or flexible structures that can adapt as the future emerges and ways or working that are able to recognise what is emerging.
This month we discuss the real legacy of Jobs and, in our FREE webinar offer, invite you to build more capacity inside your organisation to work adaptively with change and consult to your own organisation.
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i-Spirit - To Infinity and Beyond.
by Lorna McDowell
A Tribute to Steve Jobs, Discoverer of our Times
 RIP Steve Jobs. In the Zen tradition, the spirit in me bows to the spirit in you.
The world may think it has lost one of its greatest inventors, but through Steve we discovered ourselves. The power of "i", if you join up the impacts is profound. How many lives have been liberated through the freedom of "i"? How many of us found beauty in "i" that we couldn't find elsewhere? How many wondered at the sheer power Apple as a business as Jobs led it seemingly to infinity and beyond? The number of eulogies and tributes this week is testament to the power of one man's spirit in the business of our times.
I believe Steve's spirit is very much "i-alive" and will be for decades to come. Think of all that he has created and all the creations that have spawned from these creations and those creations created by those creations, oozing and pollinating the "i" x-factor. Manna from heaven, the elixir of life... he had it and in Apple, tried not to "bottle it" and clone it, but to release it for others to discover too. What a success he made of that, the mark of a true leader, one who still "is" and can be in all things "i" once they are passed from this life.
Jobs would claim that he never invented those things; he discovered them. They were always there, someone just needed to "connect the dots," to put the parts together into a whole no one else seemed to see. Just like Christopher Columbus discovering America - it was always there; he just found it and persuaded the powers that be that the world was not in fact flat, but round.
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Building Capacity for Leading Organisation Transformation - Internal Consultancy Skills
 Develop the Ability to Consult and Lead Change and Transformation inside your Organisation
An introductory webinar about Xenergie's X-perience Change Leadership programme, a 1-2 year action learning programme that develops organisational capacity for leading change and improving performance management.
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Rescheduled: Belbin Team Working Open Public Certification Workshop, Dublin, 21-23rd November 2011 - 3 places left due to unique pricing €450pp!! by Bernard Chanliau
 Learn how to improve and recognise your team's 'personality' and enhance your Team Working culture. This 2.5-days course provides participants with the knowledge and skills on how to use the Belbin model to improve individual, team, and organisational performance.
Great tool to start your Team Coaching Engagements whether you are an external coach or internal change agent working inside an organisation.
Please register or call Niamh Collins ( T: +353(1) 7006762) with the Entrepreneur Skillnet (DCU Ryan Academyin Dublin for this course - registration closes 31/10.
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