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“I would recommend the Institute for Change to any group of leaders who are serious about the chance to be challenged about the limits of what we can accomplish both collectively and individually. The Institute is not a run-of-the-mill ‘training’ program. It is not the same-old, same-old. Instead it is a collective leadership process that forces leaders to think about the most important issues that we face.” |
The Program in Personal and Organizational Change is the core program offering of the Institute. The two-year program has three components:
- In the discovery process, participants assemble baseline quantitative and qualitative data about their organization. Faculty members then use face-to-face discussions with organizational leaders and staff to create a 360-degree portrait of the organization’s people, programs, structure and direction. Building on this data and analysis, the organization’s leaders then work with faculty to determine the desired scope of their work with the Institute.
- In quarterly retreats over the next two years, teams of leaders from each participating organization meet with faculty to explore a set of organizing themes and to develop new approaches to their work.
- Frequent workplace-based faculty consultation and coaching sessions enable participants to move toward agreed-upon outcomes. Faculty members spend ample on-site time in one-on-one and group working sessions, making frequent contributions to planning and action steps. In this on-site work, faculty members assist teams in the development of a 10-year vision for their organization, and the creation of a detailed three-year action plan to implement that vision. At intervals throughout the process, a careful “post-test” assessment will chart changes and progress along a wide range of measures, using the original discovery data as its baseline.
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