WORKSHOPS
A new Program
“The Transformational Leadership Process“
Learning To Use the Full Potential of Your Power

Wednesday 2:00pm June 2 2004
Saturday 1:00pm June 5  2004
Washington DC

Imagine what would happen if you knew how to achieve the highest possible levels of performance. Would you keep the same job and get high performance there? What if in addition you could get this high performance at a lower cost, in shorter time than you thought possible and you would never have to tell anyone what to do?  You would have the power to make a real difference in the world.  You would be a transformational leader.  

 The Transformational Leadership Process
Learning To Use the Full Potential of Your Power

Imagine what would happen if you knew how to achieve the highest possible levels of performance. Would you keep the same job and get high performance there? What if in addition you could get this high performance at a lower cost, in shorter time than you thought possible and you would never have to tell anyone what to do?  You would have the power to make a real difference in the world.  You would be a transformational leader.

The AIC model
ODII has demonstrated that such levels of performance are not only possible but they occur naturally in very unlikely places .The key to such transformational performance is to understand the relationship between purpose and power. William E. Smith, operating in the World Bank setting of the 1980’s discovered such naturally occurring examples of high performance and developed the AIC philosophy, model and organizing process to explain them. The principles of AIC have since been successfully applied to organizational change all over the world. (Click to see “WHOLENESS: The  Development of a New Philosophy and Model and Process of Organization “in the Papers section of www.odii.com)

Over the last five years ODII has applied the principles that produce such high performing organizations to the development of the leaders necessary to create and grow such organizations. A partnership with the Organizational Sciences Department of George Washington University produced a course that incorporates these principles. It is used to provide the overarching framework for the Fellows Program in Organizational Sciences. The principles have also been applied to the design of the capstone, integrating course for SAIC’s Executive MBA program.

The Transformational Process
The transformational leadership process (TLP) is designed for leaders and for organizational consultants facilitating transformational processes. 

The program is carried out in three phases over a twelve-month time frame.

·        A three day workshop introduces you to the concepts and helps you develop a program of action

·        Follow up sessions  with both face-to-face and on-line connection assist you to  review progress and share learning

·        Individual consultations with ODII staff provide direct individual support for successful implementation of your program.

The process enables you to develop a better understanding of your purpose and how that purpose affects your life and your work. It helps you create a personalized process for self-generating transformation that you apply to yourself, your team, the organization and beyond.

The workshop, for example, uses a new instrument that creates a five dimensional map of the power field created by your purpose.  It reveals your leadership potential in terms of:

·        The unique pattern of ideals, values and goals which best express your purpose

·        The special kind of relationship necessary to support your pattern

·        The conditions under which your unique pattern of leadership will be most successful

The workshop provides you with an organizing process based on the same principles that will help translate these insights into action. The process incorporates a full understanding and use of:

·        Appreciative power to enable you to utilize the potential created by your purpose and to face the realities necessary to achieve your full potential. 

·        Influence power to identify a full range of strategic priorities and most importantly decide how to engage the full range of stakeholders who impact the achievement of your purpose.

·        Control power to develop full commitment to the lines of action necessary to give final form to your purpose and to set in motion the feedback mechanisms that will keep it adaptive and relevant.

Through repeated practice, feedback and support over the twelve-month period the transformation process becomes a natural and easy way to ensure that you continue to draw on the full potential of your purpose and its three associated power fields. Our experience reveals that consistent practice of these principles achieves very high levels of performance, in relatively short periods of time without resorting to undue reliance on costly control methods.

When               June 2         2  pm – 5:30: pm
June 3         9 am – 5:30: pm
June 4         9 am - 5:30 pm 
June5          9 am - 1:30 pm

Where              In Washington DC 
To Be Announced

Costs               $750    ($100 by check May. 15 remainder by May  29 – W.E. Smith (ODII), 4920 Butterworth Place NW , Washington DC 20016 .           

THE AIC MODEL

·        Appreciation is the field of potential created by purpose. The appreciative field is our relationship to everything that affects the achievement of our purpose but which we cannot control or influence.

·        Influence is the field of our relationships to anything we can influence but can’t control in the pursuit of our purposes.

·        Control, the smallest part of the field, consists of the resources that we have control of relative to our purpose. 

By designing an organizing process that draws on all the potential of purpose and its three associated power fields anybody can bring more power to the achievement of results. Experience demonstrates that an organizing process built on these principles achieves much better results at lower cost in shorter periods of time without resorting to the current over reliance on costly control methods.

Application to Transformational Leadership

ODII over the last five years has been applying the learning from high perfuming organizations and large scale change to the development of the leaders necessary to create and grow such organizations. A partnership with the Organizational Sciences Department of George Washington University produced a course that incorporates these principles and is used to provide the overarching framework for the Fellows Program in Organizational Sciences.

The transformational leadership process that has emerged is carried out in three phases over a twelve month time frame. The first part consists of a workshop, the second consist of several follow up sessions to share and learn from practice with the same participants. These sessions are carried out with both face to face and on-line connection. The third part consists of individual consultations with ODII staff.

The whole process enables leaders to develop a better understanding of their purpose and how that purpose is currently expressed in all facets of its implementation. It creates for each leader a personalized process for self-generating transformation that is applied to the self, to teams, the organization and beyond.

The workshop, for example, uses a new instrument that creates a five dimensional map of the power field created by the leader’s purpose.  It reveals the future potential of the leader in terms of

·        The conditions in which his leadership will be most effective

·        The kind of relationship necessary for that success

·        The purpose that will drive that leadership

It also reveals the actual state of leadership based on the effect of current and past conditions and relationships.

The workshop then ensures that all participants understand their unique power field. It en demonstrates how each participant can use appreciation, influence and control to gain the full potential from that field. During the workshop each participant develops a program for implementation that is supported through the twelve months of the transformational process.  In the follow up sessions staff and participants track each others progress, give support and develop new learning. Individual sessions with ODII staff also support this phase of implementation. 

Call or e-mail ODII at 202 364 5741 for more information.

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