Leadership’s Hidden Dynamics: Power, Collaboration, and Alignment in Action – Hovell
Abstract:
In celebration of Power + Systems 50th Anniversary, “Leadership’s Hidden Dynamics: Power, Collaboration, and Alignment in Action” delivers a tailored version of the Organization Workshop, Power + Systems flagship offering.
The purpose of the program is for participants to share an intense, interactive activity around human systems dynamics that engages them to examine:
- How partnership across boundaries (i.e., levels, functions, departments, organizations) increases productivity and overall satisfaction
- How misunderstanding and miscommunication happen across organizational lines and how to change that
- How their behaviors impact those around them
- How we reflexively fall into traps that inhibit our ability to integrate across the organization
- How the organization is viewed through the eyes of top executives, middle managers, individual contributors, and customers
- How they can interact more strategically and effectively with all levels in the organization
The methodology is a blend of experiential, reflective, theoretical and application activities.
- Experiential exercises are used in which an organization is created from the participant group with Tops (top executives), Middles (middle managers), Bottoms (individual contributors), and Customers. Each position takes on different responsibilities mirroring those in daily life. Not role plays, these exercises enable participants to experience the dilemmas Tops, Middles, Bottoms, and Customers experience daily. The strength lies in experiencing, not telling.
- The reflective time allows people to integrate the learning as it applies to them.
- The theoretical framework discussions put a human systems lens on people’s experiences and provide a common language for dealing with organizational issues.
- The application activities enable participants to connect their learning to their back-home experiences and move forward in implementation
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