Workshop: Organizations as Living Systems

 

If you’ve ever tried to get an organization to do what you want as if it were a machine that you could give orders to, you know that it doesn’t work. Organizations have a mind, volition, and wisdom of their own, which is different from the mind, volition, and wisdom of any individual member of it.

 

Yet we stubbornly persist in treating organizations as lifeless machines. We do it (as consultants) when we are surprised that our organizational initiatives don’t fly. We do it (as consumers) when we wait at the check-out counter and not make eye contact. We do it (as citizens) when the only reason why we live in our city is because it is the place we get our paycheck.

 

The consequences and symptoms that this generates include:

• ·         Alienation and stress
• ·         Lack of employee engagement
• ·         Individual focus instead of team focus / Silos and separation
• ·         Sexier competitors who do “get it”

 

The challenge for you as a consultant or leader becomes:  how do you align your vision with what’s trying to happen in the organization? how do you re-engage people with the organization’s living mystique? how do you get them to think for the whole instead of only for themselves?  and how do you deal with the skeptics?

 

In our September 22^nd experiential workshop, you will go through a process that tackles these challenges. You will experience as a participant two cutting-edge tools that you will be able to use with your own clients or organization. If you can relate to any of the symptoms above, this is a must-attend workshop.

 

 

Your takeaways will be:

• ·         Two powerful tools (and handouts)
• ·         An experience of the process
• ·         A new paradigm for organizations as living systems

 

The Presenters:

·         Fernando Lopez is principal of Bridgespace Consulting Inc, an executive coaching firm that works with small entrepreneurial firms as well as with big visionary clients such as Microsoft and Avanade. He is well known for his expertise in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching and is a faculty member of the Center for Right Relationship and the Coaches Training Institute, an industry leader that has trained over 20,000 coaches worldwide. He is a graduate of the Wharton School.

·         Ilan Levy is a seasoned coach, mentor, executive, and entrepreneur, with over 30 years’ experience. Mr. Levy has been in the trenches himself as a founder and leader of two start-ups that have been sold and a third that is recognized as a leader in its field. He consulted on strategy and technology with the Boston Consulting Group and headed the Information Services (“IS”) group at Sony of Canada Ltd. Mr. Levy has a BA and an MBA from the University of Toronto.

 

Who should attend?

• ·         Leaders and People Managers committed to high performance in their teams and organizations
• ·         Facilitators, Executive coaches, Internal and External Consultants involved in supporting leaders and organizational health
• ·         Project managers, continuous improvement professionals, process consultants project, team members and other change agents involved in group processes
• ·         Students of OD

 

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 from 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM (ET)

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U of T Faculty Club, Main Dining Room
41 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario
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