This document discusses building capacity in organizations by understanding their purpose. It states that organizations have a twofold purpose: to develop their own potential and talents, and to promote societal welfare. Building capacity requires transforming both the organization and its environment simultaneously. It also requires developing new capabilities to manifest this twofold purpose and be united in vision, thought, and action. The document suggests that meaningful conversations can help identify the capabilities needed to increase unity of purpose and start the process of internal transformation.

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5. building capacity
requires an understanding
of purpose

6. organisations have
a twofold purpose

7. On an organisational level, this purpose is
directed towards the development of its vast
potentialities, comprising both those virtues
and qualities that should adorn every human
being and those talents and characteristics
that are the organisational’s unique
endowment.
organisations have
a twofold purpose

8. On a societal level, it is expressed through
dedication to the promotion of the welfare
of the human race.
organisations have
a twofold purpose

9. The aspects of the sense of twofold purpose
are fundamentally inseparable, for the
standards and behaviour of organisations
shape their environment, and in turn are
molded by social structures and processes.
Unless the transformation of both
organisations and environment are addressed
simultaneously, the full potential of humanity’s
age of maturity cannot be realized.

10. organisations have
a twofold purpose
organisations have to contribute
to societal transformation
and to their own transformation.

11. When an organisation focuses on the
transformation of society, it requires
the development of new capabilities.

12. When an organisation focuses on the
transformation of society, it requires
the development of new capabilities.
When these new capabilities are
developed, the potential of the
organisation becomes more manifest.

13. for an organisation
to manifest its twofold purpose
it needs to be united.

19. meaningful conversation
what capabilities do we need
to develop, that increase unity of
purpose, vision, thought and action?

20. if we take man
as he is we make
him worse
but if we take man
as he should be
we make him capable
of becoming what
he can be.
V. Frankl after W. Goethe

21. communities
can not be build
from the outside

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28. leadership
• develop determination
for the process of
transformation
• identify the soul
• read reality
• build a vision of hope
• think in systems
• translate a vision into
projects & priorities
• offer guidance
• learning systemically
• develop structures and
processes that promote
unity
collective
• create spaces for
reflection and planning
• create a safe
environment to make
mistakes
• create a culture and
practice of trust
• train and mobilise
people (accompaniment)
individual
• have faith; believe
that you can be the
architect of your
future.
• listen
• participate and
facilitate meaningful
conversations
• reflect
• think and act in
processes
• consult

29. meaningful conversation
how do we start the process
of promoting unity inside
organisation?

30. stages of
transformation

31. stages of
transformation

32. stages of
transformation

33. stages of
transformation

34. stages of
transformation

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driven
leadership

37. change in mind
becomes change in deed
and change in the world
when consciousness
is expanded, so is the
potentiality for action
Paul Lample

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