Whole System Change: Green Belt Certificate

During this intensive, highly interactive program, you will join other attendees in discovering the core principles of collaboration, exploring each other’s assumptions, seeking and expanding common ground, and connecting learnings while taking ownership of a new and improved future. This session will include:

• experiential activities that bring the learning to life,

• case studies with tools and templates,

• “real time” coaching as each person practices facilitation techniques,

• time for discussion, questions, and the unexpected learning opportunities, and

Join this highly interactive course where we will together experience the edge of our change management practice, where meaningful change requires meaningful conversation. You will continue to build your toolbook of collaborative methods, concepts, and approaches. This interactive course will enable you to more confidently and competently:

• Turn short meetings (between 1 -4 hours) into engaging, solution-oriented sessions.
• Transform ineffective and tedious “rows and aisles” meetings into energizing collaborative events.
• Coach leaders to step more fully into their true leadership roles - engaging followers in more authentic and impactful ways.
• Connect multiple perspectives that tap into the experience and knowledge of the whole group to achieve better quality outcomes and greater commitment
• Create conditions where accountability becomes a healthy and productive motivator of action.
• Apply a proven design template and easy to follow principles to create best-practice meeting designs even when you have little time to get ready.
• Produce clear and accurate event outputs that can be used to drive follow-up actions.

Day 1

Registration

Set the Stage for an InterActive Experience

• Raggedy Start with Meaningful Name Tags

• Welcome, Agenda, & Name Tag Reflection

   

  Create Conditions for Accelerated Dialogue

• The Challenge: When it Failed? When it Doesn’t Work?

• The Consequence & “Dying on the Vine”: Implications for Leaders, Change Agents, and Participants - Ultimately the Group and Those Served

• The Opportunity: What Do We Want vs. Need?

• A Framework for Accelerated Dialogue and Change.

• Best Practices Example: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

   

  The P.L.A.N. = Tap into the Wisdom of the Crowd with a Concise Event Design Tool

• The Design Team as Crowdsourcing Solution

• Organization Development blended with Project & Change Management

• P.L.A.N. as Process for Collaborative Event Design

• Best Practices Example: Boiling it Down & Keeping it Simple

• Simulation: Setting Up the Situation

   

  Establish a Foundation with the Leader and Champion’s Perspective on History & Current State

• Respecting the Relevant History, Along with Boundaries (Firm Lines, Guidelines, and No Lines)

• Simulation: Set the Stage for the Design Team’s Discussion - How can this time be different?

• Best Practices Example: Standing in the Fire of Leadership

   

  Connect the Whole Experience

• Check Out with Gestalt

• Evaluations with Kirkpatrick’s Levels of Evaluation

Day 2

Adapt to Ensure Continuous Improvement

• Check-In with Gestalt & the Power of Noticing

• Evaluation Review & Revised Agenda with Design/Event Team

   

  P = Leverage The Power of Purpose

• Facilitate the Creation of Purpose through Outcomes

• Best Practices Example

• Simulation: Purposeful Design

   

  L = Expand the Circle of Influence by Including Leaders & Key Stakeholders

• Simulation: Who Needs to Be Involved?

• Systems Thinking & Mapping

• Simulation: Brainstorm & Prioritize Questions & Data Required

• Best Practices Example: Wearing Different Hats to Ensure Proper Representation

   

  A = Craft an Agenda that Focuses the Action on What Matters Most

• Scope the Action

• Architecture (Boundaries) & Agenda (Outcomes)
• Connect Outcomes to Actions - The Power of the Phrase “In Order To”
• DxVxFxS>R as a Design Guide

• Simulation: Crafting the Agenda in:

• No Time
• Some Time
• A Lot of Time

• Best Practices Example: Getting to a Collective “Yes!” in 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, or more

   

  Connect the Whole Experience

• Check Out with Gestalt

• Evaluations with Kirkpatrick's Levels of Evaluation

Day 3

Adapt to Ensure Continuous Improvement

• Check-In with Knowledge Cafe

• Evaluation Review & Revised Agenda with Design/Event/Hosting Team

   

  Anticipate the unExpected with Scenario Planning

• Detailed Agendas - Imagining Every Detail

• Contingencies & Whatever Happens is the Only Thing that Could

• Simulation: Connecting Our Learnings & Curiosities in World Cafe

   

  N = Meet the Event Needs Necessary to Ensure Success

• Create the Checklist

• RACI as Tool for Roles & Responsibilities with the Agile Approach

• Best Practices Example: Doing More with Less

   

  Utilize “Trusted” Others to Check You(r) Work

• Partners, Mentors, & Community: Never Work Alone

• Simulation: Shadow Consulting in Open Space

• Connect Our Wisdom with The Book of Learnings

   

  Continue the Journey to Mastery

• Next Steps - Continue Our Journey with The Cycle of Mastery

• Check Out

• Evaluations

Dr. Steve Cady

Graduate Faculty, Master of Organization Development Program, Bowling Green State University. Director of The Institute for Organizational Effectiveness