Free webinar: WaysFinding and the AI Shift: Five Patterns That Keep Organisations Stuck (Online) April 17
With Sonja Blignaut & Michael Göthe
📅 17 April · 08:00–08:45 · Online · Free
Most organisations are not stuck because of the technology itself.
They get stuck in how people respond when things become unclear. When there is pressure to move, but no shared sense of direction. When decisions carry more weight than usual, and the usual ways of deciding stop working as well as they used to.
Certain patterns start to repeat.
You can see them in how work gets done, how decisions are made, and how teams relate to each other.
The Rush
Activity increases in the hope that movement will create clarity. More initiatives get started. More gets automated. Over time, this becomes automating dysfunction.
The Stall
Work slows down, but not by design. Decisions are delayed while people wait for a clearer signal. At the same time, individuals quietly start using AI anyway. They test things and learn what works, but they do not talk about it. The learning stays local. The organisation moves more slowly than the people inside it.
The Grip
Control tightens. Decisions move upward. People check more, align more, and escalate more. It can create a sense of order, but it also makes it harder for the system to respond in real time.
The Drift
Teams are given room to move, but without enough shared orientation. People head in different directions. Progress becomes harder to trace. Coherence starts to weaken.
The Hammer
A tool or solution is introduced too early and starts to shape the problem. Work begins to organise around what the tool can do, rather than around what is actually needed.
Most leaders will recognise at least one of these patterns. Often more than one.
In this free 45-minute webinar, we will look at where these patterns show up, why they persist, and what changes when you start to see them more clearly.
We will also introduce WaysFinding, a way to orient and move together when there is no clear path to follow.
You will leave with a clearer picture of what may be happening in your organisation, and a first sense of how to respond.
This session is for people trying to help organisations make sense of the AI shift without adding more noise. Leaders. Coaches. Consultants. Change agents. People working with strategy, transformation, culture, or organisational development who can already feel that the old ways of creating alignment are under strain.
It is also a first step into the full-day WaysFinding workshop on 1 June, where we go further into the framework and how to use it in practice.