Talk: Dealing with disempowerment
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Mark Dalgarno
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Title:
Dealing with disempowerment
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We know that people who are empowered are more creative, more productive and more satisfied with their work and so produce better results for their organisations. So why is there so much disempowerment in the workplace? In this workshop we’ll share our experiences of disempowerment, invent even more ways to disempower our teams and colleagues and discuss how we might identify the signs of disempowerment when it’s happening to others. We’ll then work together to figure out what could be done differently to move from a disempowered organisation to an empowered one. Participants will take away: - Insights into what disempowerment looks like - Options for tackling disempowerment
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Outline (Agenda) 00:00 - 02:00 Welcome, introductions and motivation for the session 02:00 - 30:00 Activity #1 - Anti-problem - What more can we do to disempower our teams and our colleagues? Participants will work in groups to share ideas - either real, or invented - for disempowering themselves and others. Each group will post-up (on a wall or flip chart paper) their solutions to this anti-problem and organise those solutions into themes e.g. organisational rules that disempower. Mark will act as overall facilitator. More on the Anti-problem here: http://gamestorming.com/the-anti-problem/ 35:00 - 65:00 Activity #2 Group Evaluation We’ll pick 3-6 discussion themes depending on number of workshop participants and ask participants to pick a theme they’re interested in investigating further. A volunteer will be asked to step-up and facilitate each group discussion. Mark will act as overall facilitator. Post-its from each group in Activity #1 will be placed into the relevant discussion themes to seed each topic. Each group will then be asked to how they might tackle the different types of disempowerment identified in their theme, whether there are any common underlying causes (and general solutions) and to talk about the viability and robustness of their proposed solutions (and in what cases those solutions might not work) 70:00 - 90:00 Facilitated by Mark, each group will feed back their main findings to the participants as a whole. Mark will give thanks to participants for sharing and will close the session.
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