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CUSTOMIZED ON-SITE TRAINING 

Customized training offered at your location may be an effective way to provide professional development opportunities for your staff while meeting the needs of the organization. Participants have an opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge, and to apply them in improving work processes, and meeting the specific needs of the work team. 

Part of our work together is to define the strategic use of training in a particular situation. We need to explore how the training might serve:

1. To help the organization focus energy around its primary task and goals related to that task    2.To support the organizational culture (assuming the culture is one the organizational leaders see as related to productivity and being a humane workplace).                                                                 3. As part of a strategy to increase the competence & commitment of employees or members

ODCT will coordinate with organizational leaders and their teams in assessing needs, and designing appropriate training. If ODCT can not meet your need other resources will be suggested

 

       TRAINING PACKAGES

In addition to customized training programs ODCT also offers pre-designed programs that may address your needs. These offerings tend to be less costly for an organization because of the work already completed. They also are "tested" in the sense that they have been used with others.

CONSULTATION SKILLS TRAINING

 This training program has been used to increase the skills of people already serving as consultants.  If you are interested in establishing an internal consulting unit within the organization please look at the page on internal consulting teams.

Objectives:

1. Learn and use the steps in consulting                                                                2. Assess and increase your awareness of your style, skills, needs, ethics, and assumptions in consultations                                                                               3. Increase your awareness of and skill in managing the dynamics among the client, consultant and needs of the work situation                                                4. Be authentic; become more comfortable in the use of "self" in consulting
  • 30 - 35 workshop hours 
  • Most effective if done as a residential training program
  • Learning is increased if participants have already received training in human relations, group development, and team facilitation skills

TEAM FACILITATION SKILLS

A skill development program for people in the organization who facilitate teams.

Objectives:

1. Increase team facilitation skills                                                                          2. Increased competence for planning meetings                                                    3. Learn team processes for analysis and decision making                                     4. Learn related theory in areas such as leadership styles, empowering employees, trust development, etc.                                                                                       5. Increase understanding of how to use type theory as a resource for team building and understanding organizational dynamics
  • 21 - 30 workshop hours
  • We will use real organizational issues as the content for our work on process.
  • The style of the training is a mix of presentation and skill practice.

HUMAN RELATIONS LAB (T-Groups)

A excellent resource for learning about group process and each person's impact on the group. This event is a mix of Training Groups (T-Groups) and theory on group dynamics and interpersonal awareness. It is best conducted with "stranger groups" -- people who do not work closely with each other.

A Training Group is an experiential learning lab, that focuses the attention of participants on the "here and now" behavior, feelings and thinking of group members. It is an unstructured, non-directive small group setting.  The T-Group is intended to provide you the opportunity to:

  • Increase your understanding of group development and dynamics.
  • Gaining a better understanding of the underlying social processes at work within a group (looking under the tip of the iceberg)
  • Increase your skill in facilitating group effectiveness.
  • Increase interpersonal skills
  • Experiment with changes in your behavior
  • Increase your awareness of your own feelings in the moment; and offer you the opportunity to accept responsibility for your feelings
  • Increase your understanding of the impact of your behavior on others.
  • Increase your sensitivity to others' feelings.
  • Increase your ability to give and receive feedback.
  • Increase your ability to learn from a group's experience.
  • Increase your ability to manage and utilize conflict.

Success in these goals depends, to a large extent, on the implied contract that each participant is willing to disclose feelings that she or he may have, in the moment, about others in the group, and to solicit feedback from the others about herself or himself.

Also, see More on T-Groups

CLINIC FOR ACTIVE CONSULTANTS

Participants 

  • Are active consultants (internal or external) who have completed a consulting skills training program and are familiar with the theory and methods of Organization Development.
  • Participants may sign up for clinics as often as they wish. The cases and special focus change in each clinic.

Objectives

1. Learn from your own and other's consulting experience in a disciplined reflection process;                                                                                               2. Increase your skills and knowledge in a special focus area (this area changes with each clinic, clients may contract for a particular focus). 

Focus areas include:

  • Intervention Strategies with Organizations
  • Team Development Interventions
  • Process Consultation
  • Increasing participation in teams and organizations
  • Inter-Group Interventions
  • Resistance
  • Changing Organizational Culture
  • Personal Growth: The Self in Consulting 
  • Type and Consulting

TRAINING METHOD Workshop time -20 - 30 hours (more time more practice and broader experience) ; participants must actively participate in all sessions; a mix of presentations, skill practice, reading, and constructive feedback

 CLINIC FOR LEADERS

Participants 

  • Are leaders in an organization and are familiar with the theory and methods of Organization Development 
  • Participants may sign up for clinics as often as they wish. The cases and special focus change in each clinic.

Objectives

1. Learn from your own and other's leadership experience in a disciplined reflection process                                                                                               2. Increase your skills and knowledge in a special focus area (this area changes with each clinic, clients may contract for a particular focus). 

Focus areas include: 
  • Self-differentiated Leadership  
  • Type and Leadership (MBTI)  
  • Intervention Strategies with Organizations
  • Team Development Interventions
  • People Development Theories and Methods
  • Increasing Participation in Teams and Organizations
  • Inter-Group Interventions
  • Resistance
  • Changing Organizational Culture
  • Personal Growth: The Self in Leading

TRAINING METHOD -- Workshop time -20 - 30 hours (more time more practice and broader experience) ; participants must actively participate in all sessions; a mix of presentations, skill practice, reading, and constructive feedback

 

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