Tools for a Complex Landscape - Webinar Series

Human Systems Dynamics (HSD) Institute is offering a professional workshop series for educators called: Tools for a Complex Landscape In this four-part virtual on-line series, Royce Holladay, Director of the Network for HSD Institute and former school district administrator, applies the theory and practice of HSD to specific challenges educators face. Each session will provide a tool for addressing issues faced daily in an educator’s professional life.


September 23, 2009
Effective Communication with Board and Community
This session addresses the "what" of communication more than the "how," by introducing two tools that help clarify issues and questions from others' perspectives.

October 7, 2009
Generative Engagements: Thriving in a Diverse World
This session looks at conditions necessary to create organizational and behavioral patterns that contribute to a high functioning, inclusive culture across the organization. This new model provides the next step beyond traditional diversity training to institutionalize the learning and to apply it in policies, procedures, and day-to-day interactions.

October 28, 2009
Sustainability in a Turbulent Landscape (Part 1)
The world is changing more quickly than ever before, and today's institutions are expected to respond and adapt in ways that are often challenging to long-held assumptions and beliefs. The Legacy Model provides an alternative perspective for schools and school districts to use as they work to sustain themselves in these times of rapid transformation.

November 18, 2009
Sustainability in a Turbulent Landscape (Part2)
Many innovative practices in schools and school districts are developed with the support of grant dollars. The difficulty comes when the grant dollars are gone or when the one person who "championed" the initiative moves on, creating a roller coaster of changing programs and initiatives. The Legacy Model provides a series of elements to consider in the development and implementation phases to increase the chances that highly effective initiatives will last long enough to become common practice.

Logistics
Each session defines challenges that seem intractable using traditional tools and methods. In this series of hour-long interactive webasts, we share common and not-so-common knowledge about why old rules no longer generate the old successes in each of these domains and how administrators can move beyond those rules to new understanding and more productive action.

Stories that capture the challenges are used to introduce theory, models, methods, and tools from HSD that are most relevant. The materials, as well as an on-going on-line conversation, provide HSD tips and tools to support everyone in resolving their own issues.

Each session begins at 5:00 pm Central Time and ends promptly at 6:00 Central Time.

They are priced so that they can be used as effective and highly economical professional development for any number of participants at one low price of $399. Connect the online presentation to a digital projector and share the presentation with a group--the price is the same, regardless of how many people you have attending.
A facilitator's guide will be available for those who want to use this as a group professional development opportunity.

We hope to see you online. To sign up visit uliveandlearn.com.

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