In this module, challenge yourself to explore through questions rather than answers.

Learning Outcomes:

• Develop your ability to explore organizational paradox using multiple frames
• Develop your ability to engage in Strategic Conversation
• Enhance your ability to engage in complex problemsolving through multiple paradigms

Topics include:

• Strategic Conversations – exploring paradox and integrative thinking
• Brainstorming and Using Multiple Frames – practicing tools and techniques for “seeing” beyond the surface
• Exploring organization design paradigms – moving beyond bricks and mortar to examine Chaos Theory, String Theory, Starfish, Spiders and Tribes
• Challenging the Sacred Cows – Planned Abandonment, virtual organizations, jobless organizations

Learning Outcomes:

Learn to “read” the pillars of an organization’s design.

• Examine your ideas of “how things should be,” challenge yourself to question what is working, and why
• Explore some of the strategic lenses of an organization, and keys to an organization’s sustainability
• Design for sustainability and ability
• Design for paradox and complexity
• Ability to articulate a Business Model and Value Proposition

Topics include:

• Strategic organization design – basic footings of an organization
• Social, environmental, and technical origins of organizations
• Basic structural elements – division of labour, differentiation, integration, etc.
• Strategy-structure relationship – purposeful design
• What is the “Business Model”?
• What is “Value” and the “Value Proposition”?
• How do we design for innovation? What role should social media play in organizational activity?
• Blue Ocean? White Space? Wiki? Disruptive Technologies – fads or design imperatives?

Learning Outcomes:

• Develop your ability to differentiate between leadership and management and when each is needed
• Engage in Appreciative Leadership
• Articulate your personal brand and leadership vision

Topics include:

• What is the social contract between leaders and followers?
• What differentiates a leader from an executive?
• What do you want to be known for as a leader?
• How will you build your team?