to Agata Piasecka
(ph. 12 424 08 65,
e-mail: agata.piasecka@uj.edu.pl),
co-ordinator of the programme.
The Polish consulting service market has undergone a rapid development throughout the last decade. Many of our projects directed to organizations have been successful and beneficial - however, to a large extent, based on intuitive interventions and limited methodological awareness. Now is the time to build a stable foundation and back up practical hands-on experience with a deeper and more thorough understanding of organizations.
This idea led to creation of the Organizational Change and Consulting School - a comprehensive course based on an original design from The Tavistock Institute in Britain. Working together with Jagiellonian University Extension, OCCS has been adapted to the Polish market.
Organizational Change and Consulting School is based on three main areas of competence:
Addressing systems psychodynamics in groups & across boundaries
Integrating these three skill sets provides participants with a well-structured basis for promoting long-term, sustainable change in diverse organizations. OCCS aims to provide consultants with the methodology and insight required to provide high-quality professional services in a complex and challenging environment.
participants:
The Organizational Change and Consulting School focuses on understanding organizations and consulting relationship. As such, it is of value to consultants specializing in diverse range of specific areas - from strategic and organizational structure consulting through HRM processes up to specialized IT systems implementation. Participation would be especially beneficial to:
professional consultants looking to support their specific expert knowledge with awareness of organizational issues and flexibility required to adapt implemented solutions
trainers, coaches and counsellors who wish to expand their skills of working with individuals and teams to encompass the context of the whole organisational system
experienced managers who look for a new career of supporting organizational development as internal or external consultants
To fully benefit from the course, participants are required to be involved in organizational change projects - in their own organizations or as external service providers.
about the programme:
Participants of the course should expect:
Immediate relevance to their own workplace and consulting challenges - based on experiential, active learning and use of cases from participants' professional practice.
A well-prepared theoretical basis for practice - useful knowledge rooted in organizational theory and system psychodynamics.
A strong experience of dynamic of the learning group - allowing the participants to understand more fully the processes present in their client systems.
A faculty of experienced consultants - rich in their experiences of organisation change and consultancy, research and educational practices.
about Tavistock Institute:
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, founded in 1947, is an organization based in London, UK, with a long standing tradition of supporting effectiveness of groups and organizations through application of social science. It is widely renowned for developing consultancy and applied research. Its interdisciplinary staff provides consulting services, educates professionals who work with organizations throughout the world, drawing on their practical experiences to advance the knowledge and methodology of supporting organizational development.
The OCCS cooperation between The Tavistock Institute and Jagiellonian University Extension is rooted in common interest in developing and disseminating knowledge about supporting development of individuals and organizations. The Organizational Change and Consulting School is an adaptation of the AOC (Advanced Organizational Change & Consulting) course, offered successfully for many years by The Tavistock Institute in London. OCCS is based on the same understanding of organizations and their development, but aims to adapt the programme to the needs of Polish consultants.
programme:
Module 1: Introduction to Organizational Change Consulting
[a stand-alone module]
Moduł 2: Diagnosing and intervening for change in small systems & subsystems
Moduł 3: Diagnosing and intervening for change in larger systems
Jean Neumann, PhD, works as both practitioner and academic in those applied social and behavioural science fields that make up organisational development and change (OD&C), organisational consultancy and related careers. She cares deeply about 'good' organisational change and development, completing over 400 projects with organisations who consider themselves thus engaged.
For 16 years, Jean served as both Director of Studies and a Core Faculty for The Tavistock Institute's Advanced Organisational Change and Consulting (AOC) programme. Jean co-founded AOC in 1991 with Dr. Eric Miller. As Fellow in Scholarly Practice for the Institute, Jean's action research manifests her dual intentions of using practice to inform a more critical OD&C theory of practice, and of improving the quality and integrity of consultancy available to those inside organisations and related social systems. She is 'shamelessly practical' in her research and publication.
Anjet van Linge, MA, Anjet van Linge has over 16 years experience in working in and with international organizations in manufacturing, commercial and service environments. Having been Head of Development Solutions at Royal Dutch Shell, Anjet now works as independent consultant. She, consults to projects like the performance improvement of a utility company call centre, or the development of a culture of accountability in a refinery. Her work sits on the intersection between leadership and organization development. Anjet invites leaders to explore the spirit and purpose that fuel the primary task of their organizations. She particularly enjoys working with global-local, centre-periphery tensions in complex organizations.
Anjet holds both an MA in Chinese Studies and The Tavistock Institute's MA in Advanced Organisational Consultation from City University, London.Her own consultancy, Bureau Zee, is based in Leiden, The Netherlands
language of the programme:
The programme will be taught in English.
The organizer provides consecutive Polish-English translation throughout the course.
fees:
Enrollment in full OCCS programme: 16 600 zł (ca. 3 690 euro)
Enrollment in a stand-alone Module 1: 4 600 zł (ca. 1 025 euro)
Educational and training services are tax-free.
included in the programme fee:
112 learning hours, materials, lunches and coffee breaks, certificate of completion
Please direct your further questions to Agata Piasecka (ph. 12 424 08 65, e-mail: agata.piasecka@uj.edu.pl), co-ordinator of the programme.
