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Overview

of Program, Assignments & Weekends

 

An overview of the competencies needed for effective organization development in religious systems includes four elements. CDI is concerned with all four and recommends supplemental and advanced work in each.       

1. Self-awareness

 

This includes an awareness of: the impact of their behavior on others, their communication styles, how they deal with differences and resistance, openness, authenticity, etc.

 

 

 

2. Theory

 

Practitioners need a theory base in group development, systems, interventions, etc.

 

 

 

3. Methods - Structured Activities

 

Small & large group processes; instrumentation; survey feedback, etc.

 

 

 

4. Skills

 

The ability to give & receive feedback; group facilitation skills; design skills, observing, listening, presentation skills, etc.

Making effective interventions is a complex process involving organizational purposes and needs, the organization's culture, and the competencies and values of leaders and consultants. The practitioner's awareness of the intervention possibilities is dependent on the depth and broadness of her or his competency.

 

Weekends

 

Revisions

The information in this section will be changed as the program progresses. The elements of weekends and assignments for a weekend will be revised in response to learning needs emerge.

 

Assignments - Required Readings

The assignments are projects or readings related to the work of a weekend. The readings are included as part of your required readings. You will need to establish your own schedule to complete the required readings that are not part of the weekend assignments.

 

The specific page and chapter numbers of readings in the OD text books are note noted below. That's because participants may have different editions. You need to use the table of contents and the index to find the assigned material.

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2007 Cycle

(CDI Cycle One - participants begin CDI in either cycle)

 

February 16-17

May 4-5

September 28-29

November 2-3

 

Participants from last year -- Congregational Development Project Reports Due on December 1 to L-A Teams and CDI trainers.

 

Assignment for First Weekend (all cycles)

This assignment is for new and returning participants

1. Complete Fill All Things: The Spiritual Dynamics of the Parish Church (on the four core frameworks used in CDI). E-mailed as an attachment prior to the session (after late 2006, purchased as book from Ascension Press). Bring it with you to the weekend.
--There is a brief test on the core frameworks administered during the first weekend. The test will be sent to you in advance. You will also receive one page summary sheets on each core framework). You must pass the test to continue in the program. If needed you are given several tries. The objective of the test is to have all of us beginning with some common base. It allows us to move more quickly into application.

2. Join and participate in the Congregational Development E-List.  -- sign up as instructed by the Yahoo program. You can arrange your membership to receive one daily e-mail with all postings for the past 24 hours. You are expected to be part of the e-list throughout your participation in CDI. It is also a way to stay in touch with the field and with training opportunities after you have completed CDI

3. Order the books on the required reading list

 

If you are unclear about what is meant by congregational development or organization development it may help to review theses links.
 http://www.cditrainers.org/CD%20Definition.htm
 http://www.cditrainers.org/Definition%20OD.htm
 http://www.cditrainers.org/an_outline_of_the_history_of_CD.htm

 

 

Weekend One

  • Shared Leadership

  • Building your team

  • Exam on Core Frameworks

  • Core Frameworks - Application Exercise

  • Action Research

  • Organization Development Overview

  • Critical Mass Theory

Assignment for Weekend Two

1. Complete the Three Interviews Process

2. Review pages in the manual on team participant and facilitation skills (5 - 4 to 7; 5 - 26 to 28, review Shared Leadership (5 - 142 to 145)

3. Read "Survey-Feedback in Parishes"

4. Read in manual pages related to feedback (5 - 10 to 17)

5. Read OD text -- in Cummings and Worley - "Diagnosis Organizations" (includes material on open systems),  "Collecting and Analyzing Diagnostic Information" and Feeding Back Diagnostic Information."  If you are using the alternative OD texts -- In Burke read "Understanding Organizations: The Process of Diagnosis" and in French & Bell read the pages on systems theory and on survey feedback.

 

 

Weekend Two

  • Type and Leadership.

  • Facilitation and Participant Skills (every weekend)

  • Diagnosis

  • Debrief: Assignment: Three Interview Process

  • Survey Feedback

  • Feedback in your team

  • Roles and the Change Process (OD Roles)

  • Mid point check-in

Assignment for Weekend Three

1. Read Trust - Conflict cases (handout)

2. Read Manual on trust and conflict (3 - 11 to 17)

3. Read OD text on conflict and trust -- In Cummings & Worley in the chapter on "Interpersonal and Group Process Approaches" read the pages on "Third Party Interventions" and "Team Building" and in the chapter on "Organizational Process Approaches" read the pages on "confrontation meetings" and "intergroup relations interventions." In the alternative texts - in French & Bell read the chapter on "Intergroup and Third Party Peacemaking Interventions"

2. Review section in Fill All Things on the Christian Life Model

3. Read in Manual material on Six Strategies for Growth (3 - 52 to 60), Congregational Options (3 - 66), and size (3 - 67 - 77)

4. Read contextual issues material in manual (3 - 18 to 23)

 

Weekend Three

  • Using Christian Life Model and size theory - Quick Participative Process

  • Priest & Community: Entry and Exit

  • Inter-group Relations; Inter-group Team Building Process

  • Trust Development & Conflict Management

  • Contextual Issues

  • Feedback in your team

Assignment for Weekend Four

1. Complete "Use of Self ... Self Assessment" (handout provided)

2. If you are completing CDI this weekend -- bring your signed "Request for Certificate"

3. Read OD text on the Kurt Lewin Change Model - in Cummings & Worley in the chapter on "The Nature of Planned Change." In the alternative texts -- French & Bell in the chapter on "The Foundations of Organization Development" and in Burke in the chapter on "Organization Development as a Process of Change"

 

Weekend Four

  • Force Field Analysis and Kurt Lewin Change Model

  • Form Learning - Application Teams

  • Design CD Project and receive critique

  • Group Development Theory (Tuckman)
  • Sharing self assessment; asking for and receiving related feedback (Use Self ... Self Assessment)
  • Identifying Learnings and Challenges
  • Evaluation of the Cycle

 

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2008 Cycle

 

February 22-23

May 9-10

September 26-27

November 21-22

 

(CDI Cycle Two participants begin CDI in either cycle)

 

 

Participants from last year -- Congregational Development Project Reports Due on December 1 to L-A Teams and CDI trainers.

 

Assignment for First Weekend (all cycles)

This assignment is for new and returning participants

1. Complete Fill All Things: The Spiritual Dynamics of the Parish Church (on the four core frameworks used in CDI). E-mailed as an attachment prior to the session (after late 2006, purchased as book from Ascension Press). Bring it with you to the weekend.
--There is a brief test on the core frameworks administered during the first weekend. The test will be sent to you in advance. You will also receive one page summary sheets on each core framework). You must pass the test to continue in the program. If needed you are given several tries. The objective of the test is to have all of us beginning with some common base. It allows us to move more quickly into application.

2. Join and participate in the Congregational Development E-List.  -- sign up as instructed by the Yahoo program. You can arrange your membership to receive one daily e-mail with all postings for the past 24 hours. You are expected to be part of the e-list throughout your participation in CDI. It is also a way to stay in touch with the field and with training opportunities after you have completed CDI

3. Order the books on the required reading list

 

If you are unclear about what is meant by congregational development or organization development it may help to review theses links.
 http://www.cditrainers.org/CD%20Definition.htm
 http://www.cditrainers.org/Definition%20OD.htm
 http://www.cditrainers.org/an_outline_of_the_history_of_CD.htm
 

 

Weekend One

  • Self-differentiated Leadership and Participation

  • Building your team

  • Organizational Culture

  • Exam on Core Frameworks

  • Apply Shape of Parish Model (as diagnostic tool)

  • Facilitation and Participant Skills (every weekend)

  • Introduce Parish Visit Process

  • Appreciative Feedback

Assignment for Weekend Two

1. Attend the Sunday Eucharist in the parish your team has been assigned to. This is part of our work on organizational culture. Parish clergy are excused from this assignment if they can't get away on Sunday, but encouraged to do it if they can.

2. Read sections in your organization development book(s) about organizational culture --  in C&W  see material in chapter 20

3. Read in OD text -- Cummings & Worley -- chapter on "The Nature of Planned Change"; in Burke chapter on OD as a "Process of Change" and  in French & Bell -in chapter on planned change; also the section in chapter on power and politics on planned change, power & politics

4. Read the material in the CDI Manual (3 - 92 to 131)

5. Read in CDI manual - on Appreciative Inquiry (3-43 to 49); Three World Views (3-24 to 26)

 

 

Weekend Two

  • Parish Visits -- On Friday November 4 - 9:30 a.m. Gather at the Cathedral for Morning Prayer. We will visit three parishes during the day (see the handout you received for details).

  • Three World Views - self, parishes visited?

  • Appreciative process to debrief the visits

  • Appreciative Processes/Inquiry

  • Feedback in your team

  • Mid point check-in

Assignment for Weekend Three

1. Re-read from CDI Manual - Parish Mergers & Organizational Culture (3- 114 to 117); also look on the web page as the document may have been updated

http://www.cditrainers.org/parish_mergers_and_organizationa.htm

2. Read in the OD text - Cummings & Worley - chapter on Designing Interventions and the chapter on Managing Change (just text not cases); In the Alternative texts -- in Burke chapter on Planning and Managing Change and in French & Bell - the chapter on Power, Politics and OD

 

 

Weekend Three

  • Intervention Theory & Practice

  • Overall development strategy

  • Parish Mergers - relate to intervention theory and culture

  • Form four Learning - Application Teams

  • Negotiating Vision (the politics of it)

  • Triangulation issues

  • Feedback in your team

Assignment for Weekend Four

1. Read in CDI Manual - Defining & Marketing the Congregation (3-57 to 60);  Three Growth Strategies (3- 61,62); Defining & Marketing the Parish: A Sample Process (3 - 63, 64); and assessment forms (5-73 to 76)

2. Complete a self assessment using Congregational Development Leadership/Consultant Assessment (5 - 35 to 42) Note: Even those completing CDI are not expected to rate highly in some areas or at all in others. We will use your work in a process of sharing and feedback in weekend four.

3. Read OD text - Cummings & Worley - material on Process Consultation. In the alternative OD text - in French & Bell read pages on process consultation interventions

4. If you are completing CDI this weekend -- bring your signed "Request for Certificate"

 

Weekend Four

  • Defining & Marketing the Parish
  • Life Cycle in Organizations
  • Facilitative Interventions (Schein's approach)
  • Situational Leadership
  • Group Development Theory (ICA)
  • Sharing self assessment; asking for and receiving related feedback (CD Leadership/Consultant Assessment)
  • Design CD Project and receive critique
  • Identifying Learnings and Challenges
  • Appreciative Evaluation of the Cycle