A-Maze 2022: Can Transformation Be Meme-Able?

Elizabeth Lembke
3 min readFeb 9, 2022

A-Maze 2022, does it feel like that already? Perfect timing then!

Firstly, let’s dive into the backstory behind the A-Maze 2022 Transformation Passport with a simple question:

Can Transformation Be Meme-able?

A-Maze 2022: How can we make “why it is important” understandable?

By fostering fulfillment at work, a real connection between one’s personal purpose and meaningful work, ownership and accountability as a team… you get increased collaboration, stronger employee and customer net promoter scores, nimbleness, innovation, ownership, intrapreuership, effectiveness, stronger Talent Pipelines, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

All the great and important things — and, honestly, the whole reason behind my Transforming Talent’s , #winwinwinwin approach.

Albeit too often a tool, a quick fix or a best practice is shot into place, rather than looking at the context or principles behind WHY one is transforming.

There is a hope that the “shiny-penny How of the Day” will be the silver bullet to profitable market share — and doing the real, more systematic, calling a spade a spade work can be avoided.

Unfortunately, low and behold — more often than not, these quick bullet fixes — expensively — miss the mark.

Why?

Because a tool is mistaken for a solution.

Instead we hear from organizational leaders: “We introduced XYZ but it is not working… nobody is using it.” “The values and purpose — they are on the wall, we definitely do not use them as a gauge for decision making as a business.”

Sound familiar?

This is the big difference between doing something — and actually believing in what you are doing and why you are doing it.

This is difference between transactional and transformational approaches.

So how can we make the relevance and importance of this difference easily understandable?

How can we make transformation meme-able?

With a meme, we all get it and get the play on the situation is understood quickly by every reader. This should be the same with every real personal and organization transformation, where the reason “why should we?” becomes crystal clear.

The best way to make transformation meme-able? Do it to learn it.

Hence the launching of Transforming Talent’s

A-Maze 2022 Transformation Passport

Transformation Passport: #DoItToLearnIt Approach

To that end, the A-Maze 2022 will be a series of once-a-month, on the 4th Thursday, one hour in a #doittolearnit format, leveraging “never a dull meeting with Liz” interactive spaces to experience the topic at hand. It is come as you are, come as you can BUT is also meant as a Transformation Passport where the sessions do build upon one another.

We will also be featuring / building upon the expertise of our network in these sessions as we continue to learn and glean from one another.

As a special pun and treat for the launch, here is a real content calendar 😉(kind of like a TV guide) for you to hang on your wall, scribble up with your own learning and insights, and have a placeholder to remember the dates with!

So Setting Sail on YOUR A-Maze 2022 Journey

A-Maze 2022 Transformation Journey | registration via Eventbrite

www.eventbrite.com

#AMAZE2022 like a maze, when it comes to transforming oneself, organizations, teams, and approaches, it is filled with twists, turns, insights, backtracking, and forging new paths — not just a quick hack. Get on the #DoItToLearnIt A-Maze 2022 Journey! It will be meme-able for sure!

All of the Transformation Passport events will be announced on Eventbrite, the Transforming Talent LinkedIn page, and on the TT websites (English / German).

Starting with Setting Sail on YOUR A-Maze 2022 Journey

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Elizabeth Lembke

Chief Talent Navigator: Passionately transforming work, culture, talents and HR. www.transformingtalent.co @hrimprov #learningmavens #AMaze2022 EN/DE/Gif