Facilitating Change

Learning Outcomes

After the course the student understands how to facilitate organisational change towards a more agile and lean organisation culture. The participant learns how to use simple diagrams as tools and boundary objects in facilitating conversations and clarifying objectives. The course consists of lectures and pair homework in which the pairs facilitate each other’s strategic objectives and goals, as well as, understanding the broader organizational context. The course also demonstrates through the exercises what are the so-called meta skills required in contemporary leadership and change agency.

Content

The course consists of five lectures and related pair work. The themes in the course cover topics, such as, facilitating a shared vision, organisational transformation, lean + agile + design thinking, the role of tools and sprints in facilitation, and the concept of meta-skills and new kind of leadership.