Parcipative Design Workshop (Collaborating for Change) Book

Summary This booklet gives an overview of the Participative Design Workshop, a change strategy which enables an organization to function in an interrelated structure of self-managing work groups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Description Two processes help organizations learn about and adapt quickly to environmental changes with plans that will influence that environment. The first process is that Search Conference. In Search Conferences, participants develop strategic goals that establish an active adaptive relationship between system and environment. The second process is the Participative Design Workshop. In the Participative Design Workshop, participants create a structure that leads to increased levels of responsibility and motivation to achieve the strategic goals set in the Search Conference. At the end of a Participative Design Workshop, participants know how to sustain performance improvement. Participative Design Workshops may be used as a follow-up to a Search Conference to ensure that the active adaptative process is sustainable, or they may be used alone to produce a motivated and productive workforce through redesigned structures. A Participative Design Workshop is a highly structured and participative process in which people redesign their own organizational structures. It is a comprehensive process during which the people also design in a set of measurable goals, their training requirements for the new design, and other necessities such as how they will cooperate with other groups. These are subsequently negotiated with others before final agreement. Any organization can use a Participative Design Workshop. A community may use a modified Participative Design Workshop for designing itself an organizational structure. The key element involves systematically relocating responsibility for coordination and control from various levels of supervision and management to the people who perform the work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Synopsis The Collaborating for Change series offers concise, comprehensive overviews of 14 leading change strategies in a convenient, inexpensive format. Adapted from chapters in The Change Handbook, each approximately 48-page booklet is written by the originator of the change strategy or an expert practitioner, and includes * An example of the strategy in action * Tips for getting started * An outline of roles, responsibilities, and relationships * Conditions for success * Keys to sustaining results * Thought-provoking questions for discussion you're deciding on a change strategy for your organization and you need a short, focused treatment of several alternatives to distribute to your colleagues... Or if you've decided on a change strategy and want to disseminate information about it to get everyone on board, the Collaborating for Change booklets are the ideal choice. Other titles in the Collaborating for Change series: * Appreciative Inquiry * The Conference Model * Future Search * Gemba Kaizen * Open Space Technology * The Organization Workshop * Participative Design Workshop * Preferred Futuring * Real Time Strategic Change * The Search Conference * The Strategic Forum * The Think Like a Genius Process * Whole-Scale Change * Whole Systems ApproachRead More