Student can apply their knowledge and skills regarding working in team constructively

This concerns a transition curriculum. No contact sessions are provided. The student is only required to participate in the evaluation.

In this course, we will continuously attempt to answer two questions: How can change be managed effectively? and What is the role of a change agent/leader? A primary focus is on the proven, researched and widely applied strengths-based (vs. deficit-based) approach to change management: Appreciative Inquiry. Its positive and transformational impact on persons, groups, organizations, and multi-stakeholder collaboration is widely recognized and documented. Students will learn the key principles, practices, and applications of positive, strengths-based change and its theory base (to name a few: social constructionism, positive psychology, organization development and helping theory). Contrasts will be made with other, deficit-based change approaches and their outcomes. On the whole, we will explore how to work with human systems in ways capable of cooperativelybuilding new and better collective futures.

Learning goals at the course-level:

The student:

- Has knowledge about how and why people change;

- Has knowledge about the key principles, practices, and applications of positive, strengths-based change (vs. deficit-based) and its theory base;

- Can apply some key change management insights;

- Has developed skill in managing ambiguous situations;

- Has developed skill in empathizing with others' worlds;

- Has developed reflection capability;

- Can work in team constructively.