6th ANNUAL SCHOOL FOR APPLIED LEADERSHIP
August 2004
About the School, an Overview:
The School for Managing and Leading Change invites participation in the creation of a new story about leading change that is better matched to our times.
Current organization realities are forcing large-scale change that must be uniquely customized to each local reality. Real change requires each group to create its own version of any larger strategic shift; this is the skill the School offers. The School uses personal engagement and choice as a means to high trust and common purpose. Rather than implementing the latest answer, it builds the capacity to question our basic beliefs about our workplace and community. The School is unique in the way it brings together the leading thinking on Stewardship, Self Organizing Systems, Learning Community, Systems Thinking, the Power of Engagement, and Organizational Change.
Most of us know that there are new demands requiring our organizations to change. We also know how resistant organizations are to in-depth, genuine, sustainable change. The problem is not so much what we know, but how we act on what we know.
In its simplest terms, the School is about organizational and community change through engagement and choice, rather than change through direction and inducement.
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The old story of reengineering or "change management" was based on the belief that change can be "installed" if we can just get the engineering right. While the concept is logical, it suffers from its mechanistic nature and its tendency to produce reactive employees and cosmetic results. We know this is not producing the change that's required.
The new story is based on the belief that there is a technology to engage others in action, and to create workplaces and communities that achieve sustained results and a better quality of life. The School's powerful methods for employee and citizen engagement eliminate the need to convince and sell people on the idea that change is good for them.
Organizations participating in the School have included IBM, Nortel Networks, UNC Hospitals, Duke University Medical Center, Ericsson, Durham Public Schools, US EPA, Wake County Government, The Learning Consortium, the Coca-Cola Company (Atlanta) and the NC Department of Natural Resources.
To join the August 2004 School, contact The Learning Consortium at
(919) 960-4007.
We will be happy to provide you with the details and testimonials.
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