Date & time
Thursday, April 9, 2015
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
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CHRCS Seminar: Leadership Development and Organizational Culture
The Amazing Benefits and Complex Challenge of Enhancing Organizational Culture: Implications for Leadership Development
Speaker(s)
Marilyn Taylor
Cost
No cost; RSVP required
Organization
Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies
Contact
Orly Weinberg
514-848-2424 ext. 2273
Where
Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre
7141 Sherbrooke W.
Room 130
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Those of us who have worked to improve the quality of organizations are aware how difficult it is to create desired change that lasts. Emerging evidence suggests that organizational culture is critical to, among other things, sustainable change. Yet ‘culture work’ is hugely challenging. The good news is that we are coming to understand some of the conditions and approaches that make improving organizational cultures possible. One of the conditions is the value perspective of their leaders as it is expressed in practice. We explore these connections between leadership and organizational culture using Richard Barrett’s (2014) seven levels model and consider the implications for leadership education and development.
Participants may want to complete the Personal Values Assessment as an introduction to this discussion.
Reference: Barrett, R. (2014) The Values-driven organization: Unleashing human potential for performance and profit. New York: Routledge.
Marilyn Taylor, Ph.D.
Royal Roads University, Victoria, B.C.
Marilyn Taylor is appointed Professor in the School of Leadership Studies and former Director of the Institute for Values Based Leadership at Royal Roads University (RRU). She led the National Values Assessment for Canada in 2009, and the British Columbia Regional Panel for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council for its 2012 project, “Imagining Canada’s Future” and specifically on Culture, Values and Leadership. She is academic lead for the graduate Certificate in Values Based Leadership at RRU. She recently published Emergent Learning for Wisdom with Palgrave Macmillan.
Marilyn was one of the architects of the MA in Human Systems Intervention at Concordia University and past Chair of the Applied Human Sciences Department, as well as former Director of the Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies.
Attendance is free. Please RSVP if you are interested in attending.