Constructing Communities in
Transitional Times
No matter what type of transition your organization is
experiencing - business process reengineering, merger
/
takeover, turnaround, reinvention, or technology conversion
- its impact on your most important asset, human resources,
can be substantial. Regardless how necessary and well intentioned
any change may be, dysfunctional symptoms can arise. Common
symptoms - stress, deterioration of teamwork, confusion
about new management hierarchy, hoarding or failure to
share
information, lessening of collaboration, decreased creativity,
an absence of risk taking, crippled support  functions,
significant
motivation decline - indicate that creative change management
is critical to your revitalizing your corporate culture.
Constructing
Communities in Transitional Times utilizes our unique
adaptation of the principles and tools of Improv to address
the challenge of revitalizing any business, organization,
or team experiencing a transitional event.
The collaborative
nature of Improv combined with its framework of positive
humor and interactivity can provide an effective vehicle
for bypassing the resistance that often accompanies a major
change or transition. Improv fosters skills in communication,
flexible thinking, collaborative interaction, and creativity.
Success in any Improv endeavor is directly related to the
cooperation and collaboration
of its participants.
Constructing Communities in Transitional Times is
for the business, organization, or management team seeking
to:
- Develop new flexibility in regard
to a transition or change.
- Connstruct better mechanisms and improve attitudes in regard to
information sharing
.
- Increase collaboration on teams, among departments,
or between multiple business entities.
- View differences (situations, cultures, new processes, etc.) as
assets
rather than liabilities.
- Create a positive context
of collaboration and humor,
bypassing resistance, while proactively addressing change
management issues.
- Encourage and support productive risk taking.
- Motivate commitment toward
group and personal strategies that
create, heal, and/or rejuvenate the community.
- Explore the
role of status
in relation to change , communication,
and collaboration.
- Laugh while
learning and collaborating!
 This training seminar identifies specific behaviors and
beliefs that block living and working collaboratively in
the face of the rapid change that so often characterizes
the global marketplace. We present training structures that
focus on the flexible acceptance and appreciation of differences,
facilitation of building upon diverse resources, and reinvigoration
of loyalty. As always, gentle humor and its power to heal
old wounds are woven into every interactive exercise. The
bonding power of laughter cannot be overestimated. It makes
difficult transitions easier and positively impacts people
at every level of the organization.
Ironically, the burden for maintaining and revitalizing
an organizational community often rests on a few people.
The last section of Constructing Communities
focuses on creating an action plan to insure that the progress
of the seminar continues long after the trainers have left.
Utilizing the principles outlined in the training, all participants
are challenged to commit to constructing ways to ritualize
community revitalization.
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The
creativity and positive humor of
Improv are perfect for your next meeting
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