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AOM PDW: Meaningful Facilitation of Leadership Development for Systems Change

  • 1.  AOM PDW: Meaningful Facilitation of Leadership Development for Systems Change

    Posted 07-07-2019 19:50

    Dear Colleagues,

    Please join us for a PDW exploring dialogic and other meaning-focused leadership development approaches and their links with system-level change.  This PDW will focus in particular on evaluation in the context of dialogic approaches to leadership development and systems change.  What does meaningful evaluation look like – when the target of change is meaning-making, emergence, and generativity?  We will explore a set of questions with regard to evaluation logics and their relevance in meaning-based leadership development practice.  Participants will have the chance to actively engage with a particular evaluation approach.  More generally, this PDW offers the opportunity to deepen knowledge and thinking about evaluation as a crucial – yet under-discussed – aspect of dialogic approaches to leadership development and systems change. 

    All are welcome and no pre-registration is required.  We hope to see you in Boston!

    Session Type: PDW Workshop
    Program Session: 108 | Submission: 12217 | Sponsor(s): (ODC)
    Scheduled: Friday, Aug 9 2019 10:15AM - 12:15PM at Boston Park Plaza in Terrace
     
    Meaningful Facilitation of Leadership Development for Systems Change
    Meaningful Facilitation of Leadership Development

    Organizer: Kate ElgayevaU. of Minnesota Duluth
    Organizer: Patrice Elizabeth RosenthalFielding Graduate U.
    Panelist: Keith RayAct Too Consulting
    Panelist: Joan GoppeltAct Too Consulting
    Panelist: Richard HallMonash Business School

    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, framings, 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 (Ray & Goppelt, 2011). This meaning-turn in leadership development aligns with broader organization approaches such as dialogic OD (Bushe & Marshak, 2017), appreciative inquiry (Cooperrider, Sorenson, Yaeger, & Whitney, 2005), mindfulness (Hunter & Chaskalson, 2013), 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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    Kate Elgayeva
    Assistant Professor
    University of Minnesota Duluth
    Duluth MN
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