Context
and Objectives
The Advanced Skills workshop in conflict transformation is intended
for organizational leaders, managers and practitioners and students
of organization development and change management to improve their
competence in addressing the multi-faceted nature of conflict in
organizations and leadership team
It is an iterative process workshop that will use participatory
adult learning techniques to enhance interactions among local and
international experts to advance the knowledge and practice of conflict
transformation in organizations from a multi-cultural perspective.
At the end of the workshop participants would be able to deploy
techniques and methodologies that enable parties in conflict to
appreciate the power of multiple realities, how to embrace difference
and ‘dance with change’ as they facilitate conflict
transformation processes.
Program Contents:
The main thrust of the workshop is to build the competence of organizational
and community leaders, managers and practitioners of OD and change
management.
Specifically the workshop will cover the following aspects of conflict
transformation:
• The multi-faceted nature and dynamics of conflict: a holistic
perspective
• Conflict transformation principles and practice: a gestalt
approach
• Conflict and leadership: the multi-cultural and inter-generational
dynamics
• Techniques and methodologies for transforming organizational
conflicts into competitive advantage
Faculty
The workshop will be led by Prof. Sean Gaffney, an international
organization consultant, a supervisor of gestalt therapists, a teacher
at the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden), the Riga School of
Economics (Latvia), Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) Graduate School
of Business, and consultant in Estonia, Latvia, Ireland, Great Britain,
and the US. Sean is also a senior faculty member of the International
Organization and Systems Development program of the Gestalt Institute
of Cleveland Organization and Systems interactive Study Centre,
Ohio, USA.
Co facilitators will be: Mr. John Nkum, President of OD Centre,
Ghana; and Dr. Fareed Arthur, founding member of OD Centre-Ghana.
ADVANCED SKILLS IN ORGANIZATIONAL
CONSULTING
Context and Objectives
The Advanced Skills workshop will provide opportunities for practitioners
and students of organization development, change management processes
and advisory practice to improve on their competence through interactive
sessions with local and international colleagues. The workshop is
to advance the creation and visibility of an emerging community
of practice. This is a forum where practitioners and students as
individuals, teams or organizations come together to share learning
as part of the effort to enhance their practice.
Organization development, change management and advisory practice
are relatively new professional fields in Ghana and Africa at large.
Yet their effectiveness in developing the capacity of organizations
and their leaders, to achieve results and also manage transformation
processes are unparalleled. Many technical cooperation and development
agencies are shifting their support instruments from direct implementation
to the provision of training and capacity building towards advisory
practice, organization development interventions and change management.
The three-day advanced skills workshop seeks to build more professional
rigor in practitioners through case consultations, group learning
and coaching sessions.
Program Contents:
The workshop will consist of brief theoretical/conceptual presentations
followed by discussions that introduce experience sharing and case
consultations in small groups. Facilitators will work with the syndicate
groups to support their processes and joint learning. Provisions
will be made for each participant to have her/his growth edges addressed
in supportive ways that would advance growth in competence.
The focus of the workshop is to build on practitioners’ ability
to consult organizations and facilitate change processes and advisory
services in organizations. The workshop will enable participants
to interact and learn how to:
a. Assess organizations by noticing complexity in phenomena, distinguishing
between data and meaning that are grounded in appropriate context
as a way of enhancing their own awareness and the awareness of their
client organizations.
b. Frame and present their observations or assessments in ways that
arouse interest and curiosity, thereby generating energy for action
in themselves, and the client organization.
c. Identify where energy is blocked in a system and how to release
energy and mobilize a system for action so that movement / change
can occur.
d. Support the implementation of change agenda by placing the locus
of control in the hands of the organization, and in so doing, motivating
its growth and development.
e. Track results/change in ways that allow people and organizations
to enhance their learning and development.
Email: info@odcentreghana.com
/ john.nkum@nkumassociates.com
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