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Leadership and Authority in Changing Organisations and Society
A Group Relations Conference
Thursday 11th January 2007 - Tuesday 16th January 2007
Conference Hotel Olaertsduyn Rockanje, The Netherlands
Group Relations Nederland
Utrecht School of Governance
Introduction
Primary Task
Issues
Methodology
Membership
Role of Staff
Programme
Staff
Info & Fees
Payment Terms
Reductions
Booking
Introduction
Powerful feelings, positive as well as negative, are elicited by our experience of constant flux, transformation and increased uncertainties in the world and in the organisations we work with at the beginning of the 21st century. Our capacity to find and attribute new meaning in the projects, networks, organisations and institutions with which we work is being challenged. So is our understanding of the patterning of our various working relations, including leadership, of the work itself and of the influences and pressures influencing our experiences at work,consciously and unconsciously.
At the same time we assume that all people in an organisation have greater creative capacities to transform the workplace and their own role within it than they know, even if they get in each other top of document Conference Aims and Primary Task
The conference is designed as an event for learning in a way that can be applied during and after the conference. The primary task to which staff will work is:- to study the exercise of leadership and authority through the interpersonal, inter-group, institutional and societal relations that develop within the conference.top of document Issues
Dutch and English are conference languages, and staff will speak at least one of these. The use of other languages is open to exploration.top of document Methodology
The method is based on the assumption that it is through engaging with the task of exploration and understanding in the presence of others that we may best be able to rediscover:
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Senior executives and directors, managers, professionals and others concerned with the question of leadership and authority, who wish to enlarge their capacity to work with the dynamics of change and transformation in institutions and in society.top of document Role of Staff
During the conference, the staff fulfils two primary roles.
Together they act as the management group, responsible for
the management of the conference as a whole, including the
administration.
Staff members also work as consultants within the different events, offering their own observations and reflections on what is happening as they experience this in
themselves.top of document Programme
The events are intended to enable the dynamics of
programme leadership, authority and change at work and in society to be studied within a variety of settings. The conference and each event within it can be seen as a social system, a working system. It develops with the ongoing contribution of both members and staff into a temporary work system in all its complexity.Programme
Plenaries (P)
There are two conference plenary sessions, one at the beginning and one towards the end of the conference.
The opening plenary introduces the conference and provides an opportunity for members and staff to reflect on their experiences of crossing the boundary into the conference as a temporary organisation.
The plenary session on the last day is an opportunity to
reflect on experiences of the conference as a whole and its
different parts, in the context of ending. Large Study Group (LSG)
The Large Study Group includes all conference members
with a number of consultants. The LSG configuration has the quality of being in a crowd, where there is a rapid emergence of sub-groups and anti-groups, fantasies and myths. The primary task is to explore the behaviour of the group as it occurs.
Small Study Group (SSG)
The focus of the Small Study Group is also on intra-group relations. The SSG consists of 7-12 members, from varied backgrounds, with one consultant. The primary task is to explore experience and behaviour in the group. The Organisational System Event (OSE)
This event provides opportunities to study organisational dynamics and the role of management through the exploration of the conference itself as a working system. All members and staff take part in this event, which opens in plenary. A primary task for the event will be offered at the opening. The Societal Event (SE)
This event provides opportunities for members and staff to take up the role of citizens. It allows for the consideration of societal events and processes both in The Netherlands and internationally, with the aim of reflecting on how these may impact on organisational and personal life. More information will be provided at
the start of the event which will open in plenary. Review Group (RG)
This enables members to review their experiences during the
conference and to explore the significance of the roles that they find themselves taking up. Application Group (AG)
The task of the application group is to consider how members top of document Staff
Conference Director
Olya Khaleelee
A leadership consultant and corporate psychologist working
in commercial organisations. Consultant, Pintab Associates;
Partner, The Coaching Practice; Member and past Director of
OPUS: Organisation for Promoting the Understanding of Society; Member, GrConference Administrator
Doris Gottlieb* MSc
Mass Communication; Board Member Group Relations
Nederland; Organizational Consultant and Coach based in the
Netherlands. Assistant Conference Administrator
Marijke van der Heijden
Consultant to organisations, counsellor and art historian. Consultant staff will be drawn from below and the Conference Director and Administrator:
Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay D.Phil.Sc. (Calcutta), FRAI (London), FASc&T (Calcutta), FACSA(Melbourne),
Professor Emeritus, Academy of HRD, Ahmedabad;
CEO, Chattopadhyay Associates, Organisation Consultants and
Personal Counsellors, Kolkata, India. Laurence J. Gould PhD, FIPS.
Board Member and Director, Socio-Analytic Training Program, The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), New York City. Martha Mens
Psychologist; MPC Psychodynamic Counsellor; Advisor and
Consultant, Expertise Centre Governmental Advice; Study Group Consultant, Counselling and Coaching in Context Programme, Utrecht School of Governance. H Dipl.
Management Consultant, Coach; Associate, OPUS; Member of ISPSO and OD Institute, USA; Director Oezpa GmbH, Management Consultant for Strategic Organisation and
Personnel Development, Erfstadt-Liblar, Cologne, Germany and Istanbul, Turkey. Pim Stafleu*
Chair, Group Relations Nederland, MSc. Clin. Psychology,
Organisational Consultant, member of IFSI.
*Board Member Group Relations Nederland top of document Info and Fees
Place
Conferentiehotel Olaertsduyn, Rockanje (NL)
The conference is residential.
Time
The conference begins on Thursday, 11th January 2007 at 13:30 and ends on Tuesday, 16th January, at 12:30 p.m.
Arrival and registration
Arrival is Thursday 11th January from 10:30.
Registration 11.00 top of document Payment Terms
Payment
You will be sent an invoice for the total amount due. This
amount, including a booking fee of top of document Reduced Fees
For two or more participants from the same organisation
we offer a reduction of 10%.
Bursaries
There are a limited number of bursaries for those unable to meet the full cost. Requests should be made in your own words and sent together with your conference application form.
Please include amount requested, and also state why you need a bursary and what other possible sources of financial support you have approached. Applications from non-hard-currency countries are welcome.top of document Booking
Applications
These will be honoured in the order in which payments are
received. In order to register your place, a top of document
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