What do strategy and bees have to do with resilience coaching, or manufacturing?

STRATEGY: here’s a great video by Professor Roger Martin from Harvard Business Review on why strategy is key in business, and how it differs from planning.

Similar to launching a business, having a strategy for personal or organizational development is critical to ensure success before starting to plan the steps to improve a person or a company, whether the focus of the exercise is to be more resilient or to achieve another goal.

Strategies are built on understanding the current state - this is where coaching can be invaluable to draw out unseen truths, shine a light on contradictions, and determine what the company or person really values.

BEE: Two parallels between manufacturing companies and honeybee colonies include the collaboration toward a common production goal and communication between hundreds of workers within a hierarchy.

These parallels inspired me to research honeybee colonies and gave me the idea to start a company to try and help producers in the first place. The more I learned, the more I saw how much underlying communication structures and culture determine the success of the hive. Expanding beyond this initial work to research resilience led me to develop the BECOME Resilient™ framework.