The Humanet Model

The Humanet Model

The Humanet model helps describe what is often difficult to capture: tensions, readiness for change, conditions for development, values, and the ways people operate within organizations.

Values

Change

Collaboration

Concept map

A language for working with change.

Each concept is designed to support conversation: with yourself, a leader, a team, or an organization trying to move through tension and make better decisions.

Research areas

Key concepts

A selection of concepts that introduce the Humanet model.

Area

Value Systems

Patterns for organising experience, decisions and action that show what a person or group considers important in specific conditions of life, work and change.

Area

Change Phases

A description of the stage a person is currently in with regard to change: from stable functioning, through growing doubt and crisis, to testing new ways of acting.

Area

Attitude Toward Change

The way a person reacts to the possibility of change: from curiosity and attempts to adapt, through inner blockage, to a preference for keeping the current way of functioning.

Model glossary

All concepts

An overview of the concepts used in reports, assessments, workshops, and work with organizations.

Value system

Tradition

A value system focused on safety, loyal bonds, belonging, rituals and protecting what is familiar and proven.

Value system

Expansion

A value system focused on the power to act, autonomy, assertiveness, standing up for oneself, pushing beyond limitations and exerting quick influence on the environment.

Value system

Norms

A value system focused on order, responsibility, rules, predictability, duty and acting in line with accepted standards.

Value system

Aspiration

A value system focused on effectiveness, competence development, goal achievement, optimisation, independence and conscious use of opportunities.

Value system

Mediation

A value system focused on empathy, dialogue, equality, mutual understanding, cooperation and seeking common ground.

Value system

Awareness

A value system focused on reflection, flexible thinking, recognising patterns, understanding context and learning from experience.

Value system

Holism

A value system focused on coherence, interdependence, balance, long-term consequences and responsibility for the whole system.

Change condition

Identified Barriers

The ability to recognise what truly makes change difficult and which obstacles stem from circumstances, beliefs, fears or habitual reactions.

Change condition

Dissonance

A state of tension between a person’s previous way of functioning and their current needs, values or the demands of reality.

Change condition

Problems Solved

The degree to which previous sources of tension, chaos or overload have been brought under control.

Change condition

Insight

The capacity for deeper understanding of one’s own patterns of thinking, beliefs and reactions that previously influenced decisions and behaviour outside awareness.

Change condition

Consolidation

The ability to maintain a new way of acting despite tension, difficulty or the temptation to return to old patterns.

Model

Humanet Model

How the Humanet assessment was created, what it measures, what its theoretical foundations are and how we take care of its reliability, validity and ethical use.