Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis
Are you waiting for things to return to normal…Sorry. Leadership will require new skills tailored to an environment of urgency, high stakes and uncertainty.
“You’ll have to foster adaptation, helping people develop the ‘next practices’ that will enable (them) to thrive in a new world.”
Ronald Heifetz, et. al.
Harvard Business Review, May 2009
The Forum for the Practice of Leadership Development
Sept. 25-26, Oct. 18-19, Dec. 4-5, 2009
These exceptionally difficult times present an enormous challenge for the field of leadership education and development. The stakes are high and demand that we in the field innovate, integrate, experiment and adapt to unstable conditions and unmapped terrain
A Collaborative Initiative
of the
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
and the
Carlson School of Management
If you are a leadership development educator, facilitator, trainer, consultant or coach, in business, government, or the non-profit sector, then the Forum is for you.
The Forum seeks to advance the field of leadership development by engaging professionals who reflect a broad range of perspectives. Together we will improve our individual and collective capacities to foster the development of those who take on the hard work of leadership.
Experientially-rich, highly-interactive, and rooted in mature and rigorous inquiry, the Forum will focus on potent questions of how we can:
- Cultivate and integrate approaches to leadership development equal to the challenges of these unpredictable and daunting times;
- Skillfully navigate the powerful contradictions and paradoxes inherent in our work;
- Recognize how individual and collective assumptions influence our work and our ability to change;
- Expand and deepen our individual and collective capacities to work across boundaries to benefit our enterprises and the common good.
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The Forum Program:
The Forum program will also
feature sessions with Professor
Ronald Heifetz, of the Harvard Kennedy
School, and Barbara Crosby, of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
The Forum is intended to serve:
The Forum is designed to advance the work of those who develop leadership, including:
- Consultants, trainers, facilitators and coaches from all sectors;
- Administrators and trainers from nonprofit and grassroots community organizations, who provide leadership development initiatives;
- Senior staff, program designers, and facilitators from corporate leadership development departments;
- Academic faculty who teach leadership development within a university, college or other educational setting; and
- Training and development professionals in federal, state or municipal government.
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Systems and Processes: At a Standstill
"Barely ten years into the 21st Century, significant and profound changes rock our society...The systems and processes once effective at producing solutions now are at a standstill. Leadership is an essential to chart a course for change."
"...Leadership is a practice that is never fully mastered: it can be strengthened across a lifetime. It is difficult to teach, but it can be learned, and vital capacities can be cultivated to enhance the consciousness, conscience, and competence that will be required to meet the challenges of the 21st Century on behalf of the common good."
-Design Lab, Leadership Minnesota Commons, 2009 |
Learning Objectives:
- Think globally: acquire new ideas, skills, applications and learning technologies in a rich peer environment;
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Act locally: cultivate new capacities for difficult, adaptive work. Experiment 'in real time' with different approaches;
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Commit personally: Challenge assumptions and adapt to strive, survive and thrive, generously giving & getting from peers.
In a rich peer environment, participants will explore the concepts, competencies, skills, and practices for developing integrative leadership with an emphasis on adaptive leadership.
The Curriculum:
Core content - We will draw upon you and your experiences, cutting edge research, theory and practices that directly apply to our work, including:
- Adaptive leadership;
- Immunity to change; and
- Integrative leadership
Multiple learning styles - We will employ multiple modes of inquiry to explore new concepts and provoke insight, including reflection, movement, writing and conversation.
Innovative social technologies - We will incorporate various dialogue methodologies including World Café and Open Space Technology.
Peer consultation groups- We will work with one another in small groups on our own “sticky issues” as leadership development practitioners.
The Hosting Team:
Click here for biographies and more information.
Forum Dates:
- September 25 and 26, 2009
- October 18 and 19 (joined by Ronald A. Heifetz)
- December 4 and 5 (joined by Barbara Crosby)
Registration Information:
The full cost of the program is $1250. This includes the Ron Heifetz public talk and dinner on October 18th.
Fellowship Availability:
There are a limited number of Fellowships available to those working largely in the public and nonprofit sector. Please contact Angie Stehr at stehr002@umn.edu to assess whether you qualify for up to $550 in assistance.
Hotel Information:
Please see the registration page.
Register Now
We look forward to a dynamic program where uncommon conversations are common, and untapped insights come into the light and stimulate the practice of leadership development.
The Center for Integrative Leadership
The Forum for the Practice of Leadership Development is a program offered by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Integrative Leadership, a University-wide initiative and a partnership of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Carlson School of Management.
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