Assessing Readiness for Change
As internal and external change agents, we are asked – by repeat and potential clients – to come into their system and help them with something they believe needs attention. There’s an implicit conundrum when acting as a change agent that ‘what’ you get called in to help with is rarely the REAL work. Our challenge is how do we, as guides rather than “experts” fixing something, help people recognize how their current conditions will enable or inhibit the real work they want to do.
In this highly interactive session, learners will use real-time/real-work situations to learn and apply several frameworks, which reveal how ready the system is for the identified work AND what might be the work to do the intended Work. Each framework uniquely reveals specific characteristics in the system from which participants can better recognize gaps and vulnerabilities that might otherwise be overlooked.
Faculty
Michael Keller, MT, MA — For 25+ years, Michael has been an innovative consultant, catalyst, and educator dedicated to building collaborative, multicultural relationships supporting personal, professional, and organization effectiveness. Michael’s work is informed from having lived overseas, in Nepal and Tibet, for ten years. While overseas, he completed a Masters in Intercultural Communications and consulted privately in organizational development. He works in a wide variety of client contexts: public, private, government, non-profit…just to name a few. Since 2001, he has been Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC. These days, he focuses primary attention on “Designing the Designer” for engaging in complex human systems.
Jean Singer, MA, MArch – organizational consultant and educator whose dynamic designs in human system engagement set the conditions for discovery, learning and change to emerge on an individual and collective level. Working in private and public sectors, her strength lies in creating and facilitating innovative learning environments for leadership development, organizational culture change, strategic engagement and other capacity building processes, uniquely designed to meet the needs of each client. Jean celebrates her 6th year teaching graduate level OD courses in the Center for Creative Change, at Antioch University Seattle. She lives and farms on Whidbey Island, Washington.
When
Location
BGI Pioneer Square. 220 Second Avenue South
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Logistics
Cost: $350
Contact
Jean Singer
singer@whidbey.com
206-817-5535
Policies
BGI believes that learning is most productive and engaging in learning communities. BGI reserves the right to cancel classes with fewer than ten (10) enrollees.
BGI is aware that lives are busy and there are times that previous commitments no longer “fit.” BGI is unable to refund fees for class registrations and, we will apply the funds, minus a modest administrative fee of $10.00 to another class of your choosing. If BGI cancels a class, your fees will be refunded in full.