WHAT IS A GROUP RELATIONS CONFERENCE www igro

WHAT IS A GROUP RELATIONS CONFERENCE? www. igro. ie

Index of contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Warning What is likely to happen in a Group Relation Conference? The Primary Task Is the Conference for You? What is a Group Relations Conference? Organisations today What can you get from a Conference? Benefits to Organisations Method What’s the Model behind? Group Relations Conference Worldwide Contacts The beginning

! Warning • This presentation gives you a general idea of what a Group Relations Conference is. • However, you have only one way to know what really happens in the next Group Relations Conference. . experience it

What is likely to happen in a Group Relation Conference? • You live residentially • With 15 to 50 other Members and up to 10 Consultants • In a Learning Organisation with a Primary Task…

The Primary Task You practice and study the development and exercise of Power, Authority, Leadership…. . through the inter-personal and inter-group relations . . in the context of that develop within the Change of a real life Conference as an experience. . Organisation. .

Is the Conference for You? You don’t need any specific knowledge or skills to attend it It is for Everybody: • Leaders and Followers • Individuals and Organisations • Profit, Nonprofit, Public Organisations, NGOs • Workers and Unemployed • From any culture, age and faith, from all over the world Learning from Diversity

What is a Group Relations Conference? • An accelerated learning experience • Highly professional staff • Unforgettable: you can learn from it for the rest of your life • An experiential event in which to reflect on the life of organisations and the participants’ roles within it • Where many knowledges live together: arts, roleplay, spirituality, social studies, psychology, management… A residential workshop in a dedicated venue

Organisations today Leadership is: Anticipating new realities. Finding new ways to excite managers and employees. Managing a complex network of partnerships with other branches and organisations, locally, nationally and internationally. Management is: Implementing leaders’ vision. Work and organisations change quickly. It can’t be taken for granted that leaders and managers share the same visions. Hierarchies often disappear, replaced by matrixes and temporary work teams, held together by short-term aims. New leadership and management capabilities are crucial. ‘The Thinking Organisation’ The main assets today are the psychological and emotional capacities of the major role holders and clear relationships between them.

What can you get from a Conference? Power Leadership • Better understanding of the management of Power Dynamics in any formal or informal organisation, any hierarchical level you are • Knowledge of underlying dynamics that impact on people and groups • Be more effective, integrating feelings, values and beliefs with your intellect • Analyse your leadership styles and performance • Experience a wider repertoire of leadership skills • Lead effectively Change • Know your resistance to change Organisation • Examine different models of organisational functioning Network • Add local and international high profile contacts to your network

Benefits to Organisations include. . • Dedicated Small Groups where members from an organisation can reflect on their organisations‘ life and the participants’ roles within it • Power Relations better understanding • Improved Strategic Thinking • Leading and managing in changing environments • Effective management, understanding people as individuals, members of groups, organisations and the society • Developing others’ leadership potential, by generating management goodwill and employee “buy-in” • Improved Creativity Attention to the potential of staff’s minds, gives an organisation an extra competitive edge that helps in being successful today

Experiential and Theoretical methods of learning Elaboration of conscious and unconscious dynamics of leadership and management in organisations Method Emotional engagement, intellectual study

What’s the Model behind? The basis: groups move in and out of focusing on their task and some defensive positions based on unarticulated group Phantasy. Group Relations Conference: grounded in a Scientific Model. Developed by the Tavistock Institute of London since the 1950’s: social scientists and psychodynamicallyoriented psychiatrists Systems Theory another milestone Wilfred Bion developed models of group work and group behaviour Based on the Intensive Experiential Learning that had sprung from Kurt Lewin’s work Always updating: in every Conference you can find something new The first group relations conference in 1965 More about the Theory

Group Relations Conference Worldwide Great Britain South Africa Germany Norway Belgium Spain France Israel Italy Brazil Peru Ireland Mexico Finland Sweden Denmark Netherland Australia United States Find out more

Contacts • Next Group Relations Conferences in Ireland: www. igro. ie • The Tavistock Institute of London: www. tavinstitute. org • Group relations: www. grouprelations. com

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