About Dene Rossouw

Dene Rossouw

narrative coach, facilitator, photographer

Dene Rossouw

The Corporatzi – learning from crazy conversations at work

Do crazy conversations happen at your workplace?

Crazy conversations at work usually occur under the formal radar of the organization. Some of it is destructive and clogs up an organization’s clarity and focus. It’s the slow build-up of these types of conversations, a corporate cholesterol, that can kill an organization.

On the other hand, crazy conversations at work are sometimes the real organizational conversations and stories that are going on beneath the company radar. This is where the real pulse, innovation, frustration, vision and expectations of the people are echoed – in the corridors and around the coffee machine.

These conversations are important signals from staff, customers and key stakeholders. They exist in the organizational unconscious, in other words, below the organizational radar and official channels.

Crazy conversations at work can reflect systems of cause and effect, and dysfunctional dances between divisions, departments, stakeholders, suppliers and customers.

Crazy conversations at work also reflect the underlying patterns, blind reflex behaviours and hidden potentials.

The Corporatzi is a tongue-in-cheek look at what we can learn from crazy conversations that take place at work. Hopefully, insights from these conversations in strip form will help us recognize what’s really going on, and challenge us to ask the right questions. And at the very least, they should bring sanity and clarity to the way we show up at work.

Bio

Dene Rossouw has 20 years of facilitation and consulting experience in the field of communications. He is the 2010 President for the Vancouver chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and is a Certified Executive Coach through Royal Roads University. He is a Certified Emotional Intelligence facilitator using the BarOn Emotional Intelligence Quotient Inventory – EQ-i™ and has the Associate Certificate in Workplace Conflict from the Justice Institute of British Columbia. Dene has a Bachelor of Theology from the University of South Africa.

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The Narrative Coach
The Narrative Coach Blog
A Complicated Love
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