Organisation Workshop

Unleashing the power of systems leadership.

The Organisation Workshop is a dynamic, high impact, one or two-day experiential workshop based on Barry Oshry’s key insights on Power and Leadership. It is a workshop for leadership development, organisational change, empowerment and collaboration.

 

The Organisation Workshop is interspersed with the experiential exercises introducing simple strategic frameworks, the product of Barry Oshry’s forty-year study of human systems. These frameworks offer participants more powerful ways of leading as they begin to see, understand and master the systemic conditions they and others are in.

The Organisation Workshop can be delivered
in-house or you can book a place on one of our Open Workshops.
To learn more about our Open Workshops go to our
Events Page.

About the workshop:

 

The centerpiece of the workshop is an organisational exercise in which participants are dropped into roles as Directors (Tops), Middle managers (Middles), Workers (Bottoms) or Client organisations (Customers). Operating in a turbulent, fast-paced environment they experience situations that regularly occur in such positions.
This is not role-play, it's real-play!

Participants experience the universal conditions, traps and dilemmas of organisational life. By learning first-hand about these traps along with solid theory on avoiding them, individuals emerge with concepts, methods and a common language to improve their interaction in any organisation.

By completing this workshop you will:

 

Be more in touch with the issues others in your organisation are facing – understand more and
blame less.

Gain insights into your personal reactive patterns and limiting assumptions.

Learn strategies for creating and maintaining successful partnerships up, down and across organisational lines.

Develop greater capacity and resilience to operate in situations of complexity, conflict and turbulence.

 

Embedding systems leadership in your organisation

Alex will consult with you to design the best workshop configuration to meet your goals.

Embedding and integrating the wisdom, insight and strategies learned from attending an Organisation Workshop is a vital part of my service delivery. I will work with you to identify the best ways to support individuals, groups and teams to make the shifts you and they desire.

 

Here’s a downloadable brochure.

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What people think…

  • A fun day!

    “The Organisational workshop is the most effective way I have seen for getting people to talk to each other honestly about what it is like to work across teams, levels and roles in an organisation – and it’s a really fun day.”

    - Vic Johns, Policy Director

  • Impactful

    “The Organisation Workshop, with its focus on collaborative leadership, has been the most impactful nationwide leadership programme I have ever implemented. It enabled thought and people leaders at all levels of this organisation to gain empathy and insights into the challenges and opportunities at different leadership levels, as we worked collectively towards our business outcomes”.

    – Selena Bernath, Principal Advisor Design & Implementation

  • Challenging, stimulating and thought-provoking

    “I found the Organisation Workshop to be challenging, stimulating and thought-provoking. The content forced people out of their comfort zone and challenged their way of thinking and perceptions about power and authority. Through our simulated roles, we experienced the power of working at a different level of organisational leadership and decision making. Participants spoke about the workshop for many months and I observed significant positive change in people’s behaviour. I highly recommend this experience to senior leaders, aspiring leaders and those that want to explore the benefits of being courageous and challenging the status quo in their lives or organisations.”


    — Jill Bond, Chief Executive

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