Concepts and practices for designing, facilitating and sustaining systemic strategic change - for managers, leaders and consultants
From 9:30 until 16:30
At Online | Zoom
£545. For registrations prior to August 31 2025, the early bird fee of £460 applies.
The Systemic Development Partnership / info@systemicdevelopment.eu
Orientation
This workshop extends an invitation to embrace strategic agency and change as integral leadership practices, relevant for leaders and consultants at every organizational level. It fosters insight and agency in navigating strategic opportunities through participative and inclusive processes, employing systemic skills alongside conventional wisdom.
While strategic development is traditionally viewed as the exclusive domain of top management, often employing linear reasoning and top-down communication, this approach may overlook valuable opportunities for broader engagement, collective wisdom, and participative learning. The result can be met with scepticism and resistance, leaving local leaders feeling disempowered.
Reconnecting with the origins of the word ‘strategy,’ linked to 'act' and 'agent,' we pose the question of how leaders and staff across all levels can contribute to strategic agency and change, cultivating a collective strategic intent. This workshop proposes that leaders and staff, regardless of hierarchical levels, can collectively act with strategic intent, engaging in learning processes to shape their team or unit's contribution to the wider organization and their services.
With a goal to make strategic development more inclusive, robust, effective, and humane, the workshop on "Navigating Strategic Change" offers:
- Systemic frameworks and practical applications for orientation and action regarding strategic opportunities.
- Reflexive engagement with strategic opportunities in relation to participants’ positions, teams, and organizations.
- A process for systemic strategic change facilitation and design applicable at both team and wider organizational levels.
- Learning through a case vignette of strategic change facilitation with a leadership team.
- Peer work, reflections, consultations, and strategic action planning tailored to participants’ positions, teams, and organizations.
To facilitate meaningful dialogue and learning, the number of participants is limited to 16.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is tailored for leaders, consultants, and professionals at all organizational levels who seek to enhance their strategic leadership skills through a systemic lens. Designed for individuals with varied backgrounds, the programme accommodates those new to systemic practice or strategy work. Whether you're a seasoned leader or a newcomer, this workshop offers a dynamic space for learning, dialogue, and practical application, drawing on systemic practical theories, dialogic organizational change concepts, and classical strategic decision-making theory.
Programme
Day 1 – Facilitating strategic orientation and agency
- Strategic change introduced in the wider context of an inclusive systemic leadership model
- Participant inquiry into own system, purposes, network of communication, strategic challenge
- Development of a reflexive and appreciative critique of strategic planning and positioning in participants’ organisations
- Participant aim formulation
Day 2 – Navigating change with systemic wisdom
- Enacting the strategic direction in a hands-on step by step approach
- Inclusive learning from experience and collective wisdom
- Ethical decision making
- Progressing, results and ongoing learning as a practice
Facilitators
Dr Christine Oliver |
Dr Martin Miksits |
Time and venue
Seminar times are 9:30 to 16:30 (UK), both days.
We will meet on Zoom.
Cost and Registration
The cost for the two day workshop is £545 (excl. VAT). For applications and payments received prior to August 31, 2025 a reduced early bird fee of £460 (excl. VAT) applies.
- registration possible as of now
- confirmed place on the programme as of registration
- payment within 10 days from registration
The above fees do not include VAT. We have a limited possibility to provide the course VAT exempt (without VAT) which we offer for self-paying individuals and charities that are not registered for VAT.
Organisational buyers such as businesses, local government and governmental organisations, universities and the NHS, registered for VAT, will be billed the full course cost plus VAT.
In case the course start has to be cancelled or deferred for any reasons participants will be reimbursed whatever they have paid.
Cancellation fee: 30% of fees up to 4 weeks before the workshop, 80% up to 1 weeks before the first workshop, thereafter 100%.
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