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Session Type: PDW Workshop
Program Session: 97 | Submission: 11798 | Sponsor(s): (ODC, MC)
Scheduled: Friday, Aug 10 2018 12:15PM - 2:15PM at Hyatt Regency Chicago in Water Tower
 
Meaningful Facilitation of Leadership Development for Systems Change
Meaningful Facilitation
PracticeTheme: Improving LivesResearch

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Organizer: Kate Elgayeva, U. of Minnesota Duluth
Organizer: Patrice Elizabeth Rosenthal, Fielding Graduate U.
Presenter: Robert J. Marshak, American U.
Presenter: Richard Hall, Monash Business School
Presenter: Keith Ray, Act Too Consulting
Participant: Joan Goppelt, Act Too Consulting
Presenter: Mary Nash, Vidant Health
How can leadership development facilitate organization development in an era of complexity, turbulence, and ambiguity? And how can we know that it does so? This PDW will advance inquiry on leadership development centering on meaning and how this resonates across levels in organizations. In response to complexity, leadership development programs increasingly focus on mindsets, framing, and ways of knowing. This is seen to strengthen the change competence of leaders and in turn, to facilitate creation of more meaningful, value-creating organizations. This meaning-turn in leadership development aligns with broader organization approaches such as dialogic OD, appreciative inquiry, mindfulness, and others. It raises interesting questions about the challenges and opportunities of contemporary leadership development and the ways in which facilitators go about their work. How do facilitators view the interfaces between leadership development and change at the systems level? And what does meaningful evaluation look like, when the target of change is meaning-making, emergence, and generativity? This workshop will bring together scholars and practitioners for exploration of these questions and offer opportunities for participants to expand knowledge, thinking, and connections to strengthen the meaningfulness of our work.
  
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