Facilitating ChangeTM

Wednesday 04 October 2006

Friday 06 October 2006

9:30am

5:00 pm

NYF- 20 Lower Dominick St.- Dublin 1

stg£395

Event

This three day programme will take place on October 4, 5 & 6, 2006 in Dublin. The Workshop focuses on collaborative approaches to leading change in ways which increase participation and commitment among key stakeholder groups. Participants are provided with opportunities to learn and apply specific practices, skills and tools that support these.

COLLABORATION AMONG ORGANISATIONS and restructuring within organisations requires careful management if the process is to make the most of the skills and commitment of everyone involved. If you are building a partnership that seeks to develop and implement a jointly held vision; if you are trying to involve a variety of individuals and organisations in community problem solving; or if your organisation is attempting to restructure itself along more collaborative, less hierarchical lines, then this workshop is for you.

The Facilitating Change TM three day workshop teaches you to leverage the skills and commitment of all stakeholders involved by providing you with strategies and tools for designing, managing and participating in partnerships or change efforts. This workshop also will clarify the relationship between your values, behaviors and the effectiveness of your work in leading change. You’ll gain important insights into how your values and behaviour influence your effectiveness and how to coach others in positioning and planning the change effort. By combining the concepts of change management with the principles of collaboration, Facilitating Change gives you the keys to a successful process for designing, managing and implementing complex change efforts. This is a powerful workshop which provides tools for community development in building partnerships and coalitions which seek to design and lead major change initiatives.

Benefits for Participants

You will learn to design and implement inclusive, collaborative planning processes and will develop specific skills to:

- Make a compelling case to generate support for your initiative / project / organisation
- Coach team and project leaders about how to position and plan the effort
- Help leaders communicate a positive vision of change
- Establish specific and challenging success criteria
- Develop strategies for dealing with resistance
- Facilitate key agreement building meetings
- Transform high conflict into opportunity for learning and alignment
- Assess your own and a group’s resistance and adaptation to change.

You will leave this workshop equipped to convene, lead and manage collaborative efforts within your organisation or community that produce meaningful results.

Benefits for Your Community or Organisation

Healthy organisations, partnerships and communities are constantly growing and changing throughout Ireland, facing new and complex challenges. Thoughtfully designed, inclusive planning processes will enable your organisation, partnership or community to benefit from change rather than simply react to it, while building commitment to follow through.

Who Should Attend:

Anyone responsible for designing and facilitating change efforts, including:
• Directors, CEOs and managers of organisations
• Team or project leaders
• Neighbourhood and community workers & leaders
• Change agents
• Development consultants

For more information or to register please contact:
IISC Ireland
PO Box 969
Belfast BT5 9AN

028 90 803296
lo'meara@interactioninstitute.org
www.interactioninstitute.org