INITIAITING CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE

Sometimes positive changes happen in groups and organizations.  Other times, change may lead to negative consequences like creating uncertainty among members in an organization. The Initiating Change in Your Life lab helps participants learn about effective group and organization development, partnerships, and systems thinking. Students work together to develop a plan for their own change initiatives.

INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP

Everyone is unique and everyone has bias, sometimes without a person realizing it. The Inclusive Leadership lab takes a fresh look at equity, equality, and inclusion.  Participants learn to recognize the values of others and identify various social identities through the scope of leadership.

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING IN GROUPS AND TEAMS

The Creative Problem Solving in Groups and Teams focuses on innovation, creativity, and diversity of ideas in problem-solving. Participants learn their KAI assessment results, develop an understanding of their dominant problem-solving style, and how their approach to solutions can contribute to organizations and teams.

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The organization competencies make up the third level of practice of the leadership competencies. Significant accomplishments achieved within organizations are the result of teams interacting together.  Leaders must navigate systems and influence people when they do not have interpersonal relationships with all others. But what are the skills needed to influence at the organizational level? How do you successfully manage change or create an innovative environment? What are the steps you can take to become a diversity advocate in your organization? And how do you learn to change your perspective in order to view your entire organization at the systemic level? 

 The resources in this guide will not only give a detailed explanation of what each competency is, but also give practical advice on how to implement them in your everyday life, at work, school, and even at home. Explore this guide to find books, videos, articles, ILC programs, and other resources that focus on effective leading at the organizational level.

Tom Wujec’s Ted Talk highlights many of the leadership competencies that can be found on the organization level of the Illinois Leadership Center’s Leadership Competencies. Wujec uses a simple exercise, creating a drawing of how to make toast, as a way to get people in organizations to collaborate on thinking up solutions for difficult problems. By turning the individual drawing exercise into a group exercise, people were able to more clearly and concisely complete this exercise.

Using the same principles from the toast exercise, people can learn from each other’s perspectives, work together to examine a  problem systemically, and devise innovative solutions to those difficult problems.