Systems Leadership Learning Lab 2024

Most organisations find it hard to both get things done effectively and keep everyone stress free and happy. This workshop gives you the clearest understanding possible of why things can go wrong and provides very simple actions that could make things enormously better.

Programme overview

Similar problems occur again and again in most organisations. These often involve misunderstandings across organisational, departmental or professional boundaries, which can lead to misdirected energy, stress and burn out, lost opportunities, and dissatisfaction. Usually, the real solutions are to be found at the system level (i.e., not blaming individuals) and are often left undiscovered.

To address this, we are holding the Systems Leadership Learning Lab workshop to explore system management and leadership, and the ways in which this can help to improve our satisfaction, collaborative working, and the overall performance of our organisation.

The workshop is based on the ‘Organisation Workshop’, a model pioneered by Barry Oshry. It will enable you to explore and experience organisational life from different levels and perspectives, whatever your actual position.

We see the workshop as:

• providing us all with a whole systems view
• clarify the role of managers, enabling them to be as effective as possible
• developing partnership and entrepreneurialism throughout the organisation
• improving cross-organisational interaction
• helping their us all to understand the pressures faced by those around them
• help senior managers to understand the perspectives of those lower down in the organisation
• allowing senior managers to better understand their impact on others
• improve the effectiveness of our cross-functional teams
• strengthen partnerships between us and our customers

Outcomes

• Learning more about how to develop and lead energised, effective and powerful organisations
• Producing better results for yourself and your team
• Learning how to identify the predictable, harmful patterns that frequently occur in organisations and how to avoid them
• Discovering how to focus on the way people deal with the systemic conditions they face, rather than on their personalities
• Learning how to work more effectively with people at all levels and in all positions
• Discovering how to understand more and blame less
• Finding out how to experience less stress while making a greater contribution

Format

The workshop is enormous fun and highly participative/experiential. In the morning we form a new temporary organisation and uncover the underlying dynamics of organisational life. Frameworks are offered to make sense of it and we bring our collective experience of working together to bear on devising new strategies and tactics to be effective together in the afternoon and explore leading in systems.

Who should attend

This workshop is ideal for anyone who feels frustrated at work, in the sense that they want to get things done and need colleagues to co-operate or help out, but you cannot get them to. This can be (in your opinion) because of colleagues above you, peers in other parts of the organisation or other colleagues. Blaming others and feeling ineffective is a good indicator that this workshop is for you.

Speakers

Daghni Rajasingam, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Martin Fischer, Fischer Associates Ltd

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Guys Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London, United Kingdom