Presentation: Leadership’s Hidden Dynamics: Power, Collaboration, and Alignment in Action
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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Biography: JOHN HOVELL, PMP, CKM, ODCP, EAGT GPO
Director of Strategic Partnerships, Power + Systems
Mr. Hovell is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Power + Systems. He is a practitioner, speaker, and author in Organization Development (OD) and Knowledge Management (KM) strategies and their application to current organizational challenges. John believes and practices the blend of OD, KM, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility especially in online and virtual environments. John is on the team to converge these fields and create an emerging new discipline currently known as Conversational Leadership. Clients of Power + Systems report award-winning improvements in organizational performance, customer satisfaction, and retention, and employee engagement and retention.
John led a team to win a Chairman’s Award at BAE Systems in 2014. Previously, John was part of a team to win the prestigious NOVA award, Lockheed Martin’s top recognition award. Additionally, he has been instrumental in the creation and execution of transformation change efforts in dozens of countries.
John volunteers as the corporate lead for the award-winning annual STEMmerday event where thousands of participants engage in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math related learning activities. John serves or has served on several advisory boards including the International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (IAAGT), International Knowledge Management Institute (KMI), Training Industry Quarterly, and Synergy Development and Training, and The Lewin Center.
John has led 5 different teams that have won awards from Chief Learning Officer magazine. In 2015, he was named the 8th most influential person in Knowledge Management. He published a chapter in a book titled “Making It Real: Sustaining Knowledge Management” and became a fellow with the Royal Society for Arts (RSA). In 2009, he was honored by Training Magazine as one of the “Top Young Trainers” after being honored in 2008 as one of the top “Young Trainers to Watch.”
John identifies as loving awareness and is particularly passionate in an emerging field called Conversational Leadership. Conversational Leadership is a blend of Organization Development, Diversity & Inclusion, Knowledge Management, and Project Management. More information at https://www.conversational-leadership.com
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM)
- Relational Organisational Gestalt (ROG), European Accredited Gestalt Therapy (EAGT)
- Organisation Development Certificate Programme (ODCP)
- TriMetrix/DiSC Personality Assessment
- World Café Design and Facilitation Accreditation
- Bachelor Science (Honors Distinction), Virginia Tech, Decision Support Systems
- Master Science (Honors Distinction), George Washington University, Management Info. Systems
