Topic Area: General Management

GM 8: Change Management

APOA – Appreciative Participatory Organizational Assessment
How to assess an organization and how to develop a change strategy (Action Plan for Change / ‘Road Map’)

Participants - who should attend?

Managers and staff of international and local organizations and institutions who have managerial/leadership or advisory roles and functions. Particularly managers, team and project leaders, staff members and consultants who are involved in international development cooperation and who want to improve their knowledge and skills in organizational diagnosis and preparing their organizations towards change. Counterparts and advisory staff (preferably small project groups of 3-4 members) who are involved both in sector tasks, organizational consultancy or any managerial task related to changes in their organization.

Because of the course design – in which projects/programmes are central to the learning process – we suggest that each project/programme will be represented by at least two participants.

Objectives - why should you attend?

This orientation seminar is designed to provide practice-oriented insights into the workings of organizations, thus enabling participants to systematically analyze their organizations and to plan for systematic, needs-oriented organizational change processes.

Content - what will you learn and experience?

Participants will

get an introduction to the APOA approach
will apply the APOA approach to their ‘mother organization’ (or the organization of their choice)
diagnose and analyze an organization’s status / potential by means of using the following concepts: AI – Appreciative Inquiry; 7-S-Model; Organizational SWOT Analysis; Force Field Analysis; Q+Q Analysis; SAI - Systemic Assessment by Interviews; Organizational Culture Assessment; Organizational Profile; Organizational Value Orientations
explore the impacts of development programs/projects on organizations
identify change projects and design a change process (Action Plan / ‘Road Map for Change’)
develop a monitoring concept for the change process
reflect about their role and work as internal change facilitators

Methods:

Experiential exercises, group work, individual work, conceptual inputs and group analysis. The learning process will require considerable investment at the self level to optimize learning for personal enhancement.

Trainer(s):	Dr. U. Gaertner, AMI Trainer Pool
No. of Participants:	8 – 20
Location:	Thailand (Bangkok, Hua Hin)
Duration:	5 days
Course Fee:	1090 Euro
Date(s):	March 22. – 26.

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