4 March 2008

National School of Government

Chris Rodgers led a full-day workshop for the National School of Government as part of the "Leading Edge" series organised by the School's Centre for Strategic Leadership.

Entitled Leading Change through Informal Coalitions, the highly participative workshop gave managers the opportunity to explore the main ideas behind the informal coalitions approach to change and to try out some of the practical frameworks that support it.

The central proposition of informal coalitions is that a manager's primary action tool is ‘talk’ – in the broadest sense of the word. This is the case whether they are using talk to interact with others, or as part of the inner dialogue that informs their own managerial judgement. This workshop was designed to help managers use that tool more insightfully and effectively, to influence the content, dynamics and outcome of change within their organisations.

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15 November 2007

Corridor Conversations at the Royal Society of Arts

Chris Rodgers and Lane4's Head of OD, Tom Smith, ran a well-attended workshop on Informal Coalitions at Lane4's annual Client Conference.  Billed as "Corridor Conversations - How Change Really Happens", attendees were tempted by the following intro to the topic:

"Research shows that only around one in every three change programmes deliver the sought-after benefits in business performance; and, when it comes to change as a result of a merger or acquisition, four in five fail to produce anticipated benefits.

     This suggests that something fundamental is missing from the way we think about managing change and performance in organisations. What might this 'something' be? And what can we do to increase the chances of success."

This year, the event was held at the Royal Society of Arts in central London.

1 November 2007

The 'Right and Left Hands' of Organisational Change

Chris Rodgers gave an after-dinner talk on Informal Coalitions to around 60 senior managers from Shell's Exploration and Production Division.  The dinner was held at Shell's Woodbank Leisure and Conference Centre in Aberdeen.

25 October 2007

Fellowship of Chartered Management Institute

Chris Rodgers has been awarded a Fellowship of the Chartered Management Institute.  The CMI is the only chartered body in the UK that is dedicated to management and leadership.

Autumn 2007 - Spring 2008

Complexity, Conversation and Change Workshops

Cass Business School's Centre for Leadership, Learning and Change (CLLC) is hosting a series of evening workshops, exploring ways in which complexity theory has been applied in practice to organisational leadership. Chris Rodgers helped to organise the programme of workshops, and led the first session on 10 October

Workshops are being run by leading-edge practitioners in the UK, at monthly intervals between October 2007 and June 2008.

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