2006 National Leadership Symposium
Educating Tomorrow's Leaders
through Contemporary Learning Organizations
July 20 -23, 2006
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
To register, please print and fax/mail the registration form
available on the
National Leadership Symposium brochure.
The 2006 National leadership Symposium is a professional development experience designed for faculty members, student affairs professionals, and other education practitioners involved with promoting college student leadership education. The National Leadership Symposium is a joint program coordinated and sponsored by the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) and the National Clearinghouse of Leadership Programs (NCLP). Given the intense learning environment of the Symposium (including required reading in prior to attending), it is advised that participants have significant professional experience in leadership education. Registration is limited to 50 participants.
In his 1990 book The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge acknowledged that organizations can learn. An interdisciplinary perspective forms the foundation of basic principles of how organizations can learn and why leaders and members of organizations should care about learning organizations. Starting with Senge's idea of the learning organization, but moving beyond it, the theme of the 2006 National Leadership Symposium is "Educating Tomorrow's Leaders through Contemporary Learning Organizations." What do today's learning organizations look like? How are they created? How does technology influence how and if organizations learn?
Symposium Outcomes
Learning objectives of the 2006 symposium include:
- Understanding what contemporary learning organizations are.
- Identifying barriers and avenues to creating learning organizations.
- Being aware of the individual responsibilities in creating learning organizations: knowing the self, knowing members of the organization, engendering trust.
- Differentiating groups, teams, and learning organizations.
- Learning and practicing behaviors that encourage the creating of learning organizations.
National Leadership Symposium Scholars-in-Residence
- Dr. Marie A. Cini
Assistant Vice President for Academic Programs and Initiatives
City University, Vancouver British Columbia
- Nancy Margulies
Mindscapes by Nancy
Montara, CA
- Dr. Carol Pearson
Director, James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
- Dr. George Roth
Researcher, MIT Center for Organizational Learning and Co-founder Reflection Learning Associates. Inc
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Required Reading
In order to fully participate in the Symposium experience, delegates are expected to read and generate a working knowledge of these assigned books and documents on leadership constructs prior to the program. The particular books that will be discussed are:
- The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By by Carol S. Pearson, PH.D.
A modern classic of Jungian psychology, The Hero Within has helped hundreds of thousands of people enrich their lives by revealing how to tap the power of the archetypes that exist within. Drawing from literature, anthropology, and psychology, author Carol S. Pearson clearly defines six heroic archetypes - the Innocent, the Orphan, the Wanderer, the Warrior, the Altruist, and the Magician - and shows how we can use these powerful guides to discover our own hidden gifts, solve difficult problems, and transform our lives with rich sources of inner strength.
This book will speak deeply to the evolving hero in all of us and reverberate through every part of our lives. With poignant wisdom and prolific examples, it gives us enduring tools to help us develop our own innate heroic gifts - the Orphan's resilience, the Wanderer's independence, the Warrior's courage, the Altruist's compassion, the Innocent's faith, and the Magician's abiding power.
- The Dance of Change by Peter Senge
Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book The Fifth Discipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organzations cannot thrive today without learning to adapt their attitudes and practices. But companies that establish change initiatives discover, after initial success, that even the most promising efforts to transform or revitalize organizations - despite interest, resources, and compelling business results - can fail to sustain themselves over time. That's because organizations have complex, well-developed immune systems, aimed at preserving the status quo.
Now, drawing upon new theories about leadership and the long-term success of change initiatives, and based upon twenty-five years of experience building learning organizations, the authors of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook show how to accelerate success and avoid the obstacles that can stall momentum. The Dance of Change, written for managers and executives at every level of an organization, reveals how business leaders can work together to anticipate the challenges that profound change will ultimately force the organization to face. Then, in a down-to-earth and compellingly clear format, readers will learn how to build the personal and organizational capabilities needed to meet those challenges.
These challenges are not imposed from the outside; they are the product of assumptions and practices that people take for granted-an inherent, natural part of the processes of change. And they can stop innovation cold, unless managers at all levels learn to anticipate them and recognize the hidden rewards in each challenge, and the potential to spur further growth. Within the frequently encountered challenge of "Not Enough Time," for example-the lack of control over time available for innovation and learning initiatives-lies a valuable opportunity to reframe the way people organize their workplace.
This book identifies universal challenges that organizations ultimately find themselves confronting, including the challenge of "Fear and Anxiety"; the need to diffuse learning across organizational boundaries; the ways in which assumptions built in to corporate measurement systems can handcuff learning initiatives; and the almost unavoidable misunderstandings between "true believers" and nonbelievers in a company.
Filled with individual and team exercises, in-depth accounts of sustaining learning initiatives by managers and leaders in the field, and well-tested practical advice, The Dance of Change provides an insider's perspective on implementing learning and change initiatives at such corporations as British Petroleum, Chrysler, Dupont, Ford, General Electric, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi Electric, Royal Dutch/Shell, Shell Oil Company, Toyota, the United States Army, and Xerox. It offers crucial advice for line-level managers, executive leaders, internal networkers, educators, and others who are struggling to put change initiatives into practice.
- The World Café by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs
The World Café is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization's or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions.
Filled with stories of actual Café dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Café can be adapted to any setting or culture. Examples from such varied organizations as Hewlett-Packard, American Society for Quality, the nation of Singapore, the University of Texas, and many others, demonstrate the process in action.
Along with is seven core design principles, The World Café offers practical tips for hosting "conversations that matter" in groups of any size-strengthening both personal relationships and people's capacity to shape the future together.
- Visual Thinking; Tools for Mapping Your Ideas by Nancy Margulies and Christine Valenza
Free yourself from the limiting belief that you can't draw and move into the dynamic world of visible thinking for you and your students. The authors have compiled a symbolary of easy- to-draw iconographs that can be used to enrich communication, provoke deeper thought, and make the process of creating Mind Maps and Mindscapes for note taking and review in your classroom a breeze. Visual Thinking breaks down the process of drawing into small steps so that anyone who thinks they cannot draw will find that in fact, they can. Visible thinking templates help students work through challenging problem-solving activities. As their thinking processes are recorded, students become more thorough and skillful in reaching conclusions and making decisions.
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