OUTREACH - University of Oklahoma
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Leading in the Age of Learning

Advanced Facilitative Leadership

September 17-19, 2008
The Canebrake - Wagoner, Oklahoma
8:00am – 5:00pm
$950/person – does not include evening meals or lodging

A partnership between OU’s Executive Training ~ Team Quest and Challenge Quest, LLC.

Competency Foundations:

ASTD Competencies:

  • Think strategically
  • Communicate effectively
  • Leveraging diversity
  • Demonstrating adaptability
  • Driving results
  • Modeling personal development

ASTD Areas of Expertise:

  • Delivering training
  • Improving human performance

Hay Group Emotional Intelligence Competencies

  • Self-awareness
  • Self-management
  • Social awareness
  • Relationship management

Approach:
In an effort to close the gap of modern educational practices where education is kept separate from application, this program utilizes a learning process that educates within the context of real life.  The foundational principles are:

  • Self-directed learning – Although this program will provide the structure, it is the learners that must take responsibility for defining why they want to learn a particular area of knowledge and how they will use that learning in life.
  • Experiential Learning - There are some subjects that cannot be learned by reading, lecture or even discussion.  Leadership is a subject that is best learned by doing.  Yet, even action will not result in learning unless there is purposeful reflection on that experience.  Consequently, this program not only develops new knowledge, but also more foundational competencies such as critical reflection, systems thinking, self-awareness and emotional stamina which allow learners to continue developing long after their formal training.
  • Action Learning - The type of learning that leaders of this generation need cannot be accomplished alone.  Discovering mental models, taken for granted assumptions and life responses requires help from others.  For this reason, this program understands learning as a social process.  This is enabled through formalized action learning teams that provide regular feedback and insight from facilitators and other learners.

Day 1 – Self-Awareness
The process begins by asking participants to focus inward and understand themselves first.

  • Introductions
  • Learning objectives
  • Setting the stage for learning – Group contracting sequence with personal commitment statements
  • Learning wheel model – individual focus
  • Personal feedback reports (Collaborative Leader Profile)
  • Emotional chains – a guided self-reflection
  • Introduction to action learning – Action learning assignment: Identify something out of the assessment feedback that you want to work on.

Day 2 – Other Awareness
The second phase of development asks participants to learn to observe and interpret the dynamics of teams, organizations and individuals.

  • Introduction to Emotional Systems
  • Fundamentals of Collective Learning – Learning Wheel model with team focus
  • Seeing the system – Using video and Fishbowl practice tools that allow leaders to understand the dynamic of the systems they are observing.
    • Team Interaction Maps
    • Meeting Effectiveness Assessment
    • Triangles
  • Action learning: Identify a chronic team/group situation that you are a part of that you would like to influence.

Day 3 – Collective Awareness
The final day of the program asks participants to not only listen to self and interpret group behavior, but to also influence and intervene while being a part of the group.

  • Facilitative leadership skills
    • Questions
    • Reflection cycle with a critical reflection focus
  • Continuum of intervention
  • Action learning fishbowls – practicing facilitative leadership
    • Action learning assignment – Either of the first two assignments or a key organizational change they want to initiate upon returning home.
  • Creating a container for ongoing practice
  • Action planning
  • Closure and evaluations

 

Who Should Attend?

  • Leaders who want more than momentary success.
  • Leaders who want to impact their organizations for a greater good.
  • Leaders who want to facilitate sustainable change.
  • Consultants and coaches who want to do more than find “solutions” to managing the symptoms of ineffective organizations and leadership.

Benefits of Attending       

  • 60 days of email and phone support available from the facilitators as you practice these skills back at work.
  • Participants will have an increased ability to influence without authority.
  • Participants will have an enhanced ability to identify and challenge existing mental models and assumptions.
  • Participants will have strategies to use differences to generate new perspectives rather than polarization.
  • Participants will have processes to create shared vision/meaning through exploring multiple perspectives.
  • Participants will have greater self-awareness which is the foundation of continuous learning and leadership competency.

 

Information on overnight accommodations

The Canebrake – Wagoner, Oklahoma
www.thecanebrake.com
$139 - $159/night – single occupancy
Contact: Adam Miller at 918-485-1816

 

 

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