DAY 1

Getting started, establishing change, challenge groups and working together

Mapping the terrain:

• key concepts and definitions
• a meta-frame for theories of change
• modernist and postmodernist organisational forms
• the relationship between organisational theory and change practice

The organisation as machine: Taylorism and planned change

• scientific management and organisational engineering: an examination of Taylorism and its continuing relevance today
• planned change models and recipes for success: from Lewin to Kotter

People in change

Organisations as systems of circular logic

• Senge, his insights and understanding

DAY 2

Review of Day 1

Change as an emergent process

• organisations as complex adaptive systems: an exploration of what this understanding of the organisational form means for organisational members and leaders during change
• social constructionist views of organisation, how they enhance our understanding of the change process and allow different understanding of effective action
• organisations as living human systems – appreciative inquiry
• open space technologies - a brief introduction to this exciting and effective change process

Postmodernist perspectives- change through talk

A map of organisational change situations and change methodologies

Action planning