Through the Kaleidoscope:

Reframing Organizations

Friday, January 28th, 2005

8:00 am to 4:30 pm

with Anne Jane Grieve and Jane Adams

Overview

Seasoned managers and consultants have a variety of ways to approach organizational issues. All, however, have preferred approaches to issues that may blind them to their own personal biases about what is going on.

In this workshop we'll provide an introduction to Bolman and Deal's book Reframing Organizations. We'll learn four lenses through which to reframe and understand complex organizational events;

Structural Frame: Goals, specialized roles, relationships, division of labor (i.e. redesigning an organizational chart)

Human Resources Frame: People's skills, attitudes, energy, commitment, feelings, assumptions and skills (i.e. people development)

Political Frame: Strategy, tactics, bargaining, negotiation, influence, coercion, and compromise (i.e. centers of influence)

Symbolic Frame: Symbols which anchor hope and faith, metaphor, heroes, humour and play (i.e. shared vision)

The purpose of this workshop is to show how reframing and a four frame approach to organizations, management, and good leadership can open the scope of our choices. We'll explore real life organizational examples and understand how some issues may be most effectively addressed through one lens and not another.

Benefits

We are offering:

• * a lively, interactive workshop that promotes dialogue around the frames
• * a useful and useable template for organizational diagnosis and action
• * a schema and language for joint problem solving
• * the experience of both participants and special invited OD clients who bring depth to the frames based on their own experience
• *the excitement of being able to see the same organization, simultaneously, as machine, family, jungle, and theatre!

NOTE: everyone will receive the book Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership by Bolman and Deal, Jossey-Bass, 2003 (price included in workshop fee)

Presenters

Anne Jane Grieve, MALT - Anne Jane is a consultant specializing in the areas of innovation, leadership and communication. She brings a wide variety of tools and approaches to her practice and has recently broadened her field of interest to include capacity-building in Northern communities.

Jane Adams, M.Ed. - Jane, and ACCORD Board Member, has 20 years experience working with over 100 organizations providing a full range of consulting, facilitation, group enhancement, coaching and learning resources.

Location

University of Toronto, Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks Street, Toronto (south of Bloor, off Spadina)

For a Map and Parking/TTC information please go online to http://www.utoronto.ca//facultyclub/docs/access.html

How to Register

Please register by sending an email to info@accord.org

or call/fax: 416-410-3694

Advance registration is recommended for ALL ACCORD events, in order to ensure adequate room size, seating, and catering. Thank you!

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