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Index of contents1. Warning2. What is likely to happen in a Group Relation Conference?3. The Primary Task4. Is the Conference for You?5. What is a Group Relations Conference?6. Organisations today7. What can you get from a Conference?8. Benefits to Organisations9. Method10. What’s the Model behind?11. Group Relations Conference Worldwide12. Contacts13. The beginning
• This presentation gives you a general idea of what a Group Relations Conference is.
• However you have only one way to know what really happens in the next Group Relations Conference..
..experience it
Warning
What is likely to happenin a Group Relation Conference?
• You live residentially
• With 15 to 50 other Members and up to 10 Consultants
• In a Learning Organisation
with a Primary Task…
The Primary Task
You practice and
study the
development and
exercise of Power,
Authority,
Leadership…
..in the context of
Change of a real
life experience..
..through the inter-
personal and inter-
group relations that
develop within the
Conference as an
Organisation..
Learning from Diversity
Is the Conference for You?
It is for Everybody:• Leaders and Followers• Individuals and Organisations• Profit, Nonprofit, Public Organisations, NGOs• Workers and Unemployed• From any culture, age and faith, from all over the
world
You don’t need any specific knowledge or skills to attend it
What is a Group Relations Conference?
• An accelerated learning experience
• Highly professional staff
• Unforgettable: you can learn from it for the rest of your life
• An experiential event in which to reflect on the life of organisations and the participants’ roles within it
• Where many knowledges live together: arts, roleplay, spirituality, social studies, psychology, management…
A workshop in a dedicated venue
Organisations today
Leadership is:Anticipating new realities.Finding new ways to excite managers and employees.Managing a complex network of partnerships with other branches and organisations, locally, nationally and internationally.
Management is:Implementing leaders’ vision.
Work and organisations change quickly. It can’t be taken for granted that leaders and managers share the same visions.
‘The Thinking Organisation’
The main assets today are the psychological and emotional capacities of the major role holders and clear relationships between them.
Hierarchies often disappear, replaced by matrixes and temporary work teams, held together by short-term aims. New leadership and management capabilities are crucial.
What can you get from a Conference?Leadership• Analyse your leadership
styles and performance• Experience a wider repertoire
of leadership skills• Lead effectively
Organisation• Examine different models of
organisational functioning
Network• Add local and international
high profile contacts to your network
Power• Better understanding of the
management of Power Dynamics in any formal or informal organisation, any hierarchical level you are
• Knowledge of underlying dynamics that impact on people and groups
• Be more effective, integrating feelings, values and beliefs with your intellect
Change• Know your resistance to
change
Benefits to Organisations include..
Attention to the potential of staff’s minds, gives an organisation
an extra competitive edge that helps in being successful today
• Effective management, understanding people as individuals, members of groups, organisations and the society
• Developing others’ leadership potential, by generating management goodwill and employee “buy-in”
• Improved Creativity
• Dedicated Small Groups where members from an organisation can reflect on their organisations‘ life and the participants’ roles within it
• Power Relations better understanding
• Improved Strategic Thinking
• Leading and managing in changing environments
Elaboration of conscious and unconscious dynamics of
leadership and management in organisations
Emotional engagement, intellectual
study
Method
Experiential and
Theoretical methods of
learning
Based on the Intensive
Experiential Learning that had sprung from Kurt
Lewin’s work
Wilfred Bion developed
models of group work and group
behaviour
Systems Theory another
milestone
The first group relations
conference in 1965
Developed by the Tavistock
Institute of London since the
1950’s: social scientists and
psychodynamically-oriented
psychiatristsMore about the Theory
The basis: groups move in and out of focusing on their task and some defensive positions based on unarticulated group Phantasy.
Group Relations Conference: grounded in a Scientific Model.
What’s the Model behind?
Always updating: in
every Conference you can find
something new
Group Relations Conference Worldwide
Great Britain
Germany
Belgium
France
Israel
Brazil
Ireland
Finland
Denmark
Australia
South Africa
Norway
Spain
Israel
Italy
Peru
Mexico
Sweden
Netherland
United States
Find out more
Contacts
• Next Group Relations Conferences in Ireland: www.igro.ie
• The Tavistock Institute of London: www.tavinstitute.org
• Group relations: www.grouprelations.com
Group Relations Conference
Where you experience what other courses talk
about.
www.igro.ie
