New Conversations, New Programme: how transformational leadership encouraged emergent change

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New Conversations, New Programme how
transformational leadership encouraged emergent
change

• JSWEC Conference
• University of
• Hertfordshire
• 8-10th July 2009
• Linda Walker and Tim Kelly
• University of Dundee

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Aims of the Workshop

• Share our specific experiences of leading a
  programme review
• Engage in wider conversations about emergent,
  transformational change
• Collate our collective experiences

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The Dundee Context

• Change
• Change
• Change
• Sound familiar??

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Programme Review as a catalyst for change

• Shared Ownership
• Project Management Approach
• Use of VLE (Blackboard)

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Our Four Pronged Approach to Facilitate Emergent
Change

• Developing Ownership
• Developing Emergent Leadership
• Changing and Telling the Social Work Story
• Developing Structures to Support Current and
  Future Work of the Team

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What is the World Café Approach?
New people new conversations potential change
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How might this approach help us today?

• Awakening and engaging collective intelligence
  through conversations about questions that
  matter
• www.theworldcafe.com

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Café Etiquette

• Talk about what interests you about the subject
• You dont have to talk as a whole group
• Jot down your big ideas and eureka moments
• Enjoy the chat

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First Table - First Words

• We will be having several conversations today.
• Each conversation will last for 15 -20 minutes
• Each table should have several guests , and will
  have a question menu, treats and plenty of pens
  and paper.
• Look at the menu and have a conversation about
  those questions that matter most to you or
  generate your own!
• Write or draw your ideas on the large pieces of
  paper as you go along.
• A timekeeper will identify when it is time to
  move to another table

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First Move - Next Words

• One person will remain at the table to act as
  host everyone else will move to new tables.
• You can move independently not necessarily as a
  group
• If you stay as host, your task is to welcome the
  new guests and briefly share the key ideas and
  themes from the first conversation.
• The second conversation will again start from the
  new question menu
• Connections across tables and conversations will
  begin to take shape

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Last Move Last Words

• After the final conversation, we will start to
  draw all the ideas together
• Within your final grouping, please collate the
  key issues and ideas generated on the tablecloths
  (on flipchart paper provided)
• Identify two issues to share with the wider group