Looking Back at 2022
Bye-bye 2022!
2022 was a juicy year for dialogueSA!
Thank you for making our favourite moments from this year possible, and for being a part of the dialogue tribe.
Reflecting on the year that’s been (before we jump into 2023) here are some of the highlights:
Wild Coast feeling
In February we were off for a seven-day strategy in the Wild coast. Here we visioned, turned things insight out, tightened and went into the year with a renewed sense of how to support leaders in building inclusive and inspirational workplaces that encourage people to do their best work.
Walking along the beach in an integration session, we came up with the expression ‘feeling the wild coast in our bones’ as an equivalent to the expression ‘feeling like a million dollars.’ And we managed to carry this intention, buoyancy, and freedom into the work we chose to do this year.
Looking back, we almost effortlessly reached our targets and achieved a lot of unexpected wins along the way.
London and Ghana workshops
New clients added to our old in Ghana and London, which led to exciting trips (yay - face-to-face!) and awesome virtual collaborations. We learned how to show up despite huge changes and uncertainty and keep momentum and innovation surging throughout the organisation.
You asked, and we answered
Graduates to Exco interventions
When you couldn’t think straight and needed a thinking partner to get you from overwhelm to clarity, you called on us. Together, we ran analytics on your teams; helped change mindsets; looked at new ways to deeply involve customers and helped you lean into your natural wisdom, tenacity and ingenuity.
Thank you for choosing dialogueSA to deepen your practice. Your Top Three requests this year were Design Thinking, Leadership support and development and Coach Activator (developing a coaching skillset for managers).
To support ourselves, remain sensitive to what is relevant and sharpen our own skillset, members of the dialogue staff kept abreast by being part of COMENSA supervision committee; taking part in training, including trauma release, deepening transactional analysis understanding, neuroscience of change, ecosystem supervision, MindBodyMagic coaching and somatic healing training; being involved as a fellow at the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA); serving on executive boards, and speaking engagements in Europe and Africa.
This helps us help you and we felt honored to have been with you on key steps along your journey.
Peppered with awards!
We were delighted to win three awards this year – one international and two national. The Wealth and Finance Consultancy award for Change Leadership Specialist of the Year, Top 20 small business in South Africa from the South African Small Business Chamber, and the Leadership Excellence award.
These were unexpected wins and we are grateful to the clients who took time to give their view in interviews or testimonials. From judging industry awards last year to winning some this year, it has been a sweet journey!
We feel so lucky we get to do what we do. And it’s all possible because of our strong community of clients.
Thank you for being such an integral part of our growth in 2022!
Keep an eye out on our social media channels for new dialogue inspirations, interventions, and tools to meet you where you’re at in 2023 and support you clarify and ground in the new year.