Facilitating
Change - 2021
A hands-on course for leading change
in your own organization.
Spring 2021 registration are now closed.
We received 400+ applications!
About
In Spring 2021, Facilitating Change returns as a live online course with live lectures and hands-on exercises on organization design, agile culture and digital transformation.
The lectures are 100% free to participate.
Aalto students can register directly through Oodi.
The course is held every Thursdays from 16.15- to 18.00 (EET) from April 22nd to May 27th.
Meanwhile, you can check out the open and free handbook about the course contents.“Facilitating Change is an effective blend of hands-on practice and academic theory for anyone interested in change leadership, organizational transform, organization design and becoming a change agent.”
– prof. Risto Sarvas
What's in it for you?
Skills
Skills and theories for leading and facilitating change
Know-how
Practical lessons and tools on how to make change happen
Personal growth
Building confidence by seeing how much you already know
Experienced teachers
The lecturers are renowed coaches as well as practitioners
Networking
Connecting with other change agents.
What is it about?
Facilitating Change aims to provide the tools for a facilitated organisational change towards a more agile and lean organisation culture. Simple diagrams and boundary objects will be the means used in facilitating conversations and clarifying objectives.
The course also demonstrates through the exercises what are the so-called meta skills required in contemporary leadership and change agency.
Even before the pandemic most organisations had huge pressure to change and adapt their organisation cultures. Often the change is driven by keywords such as agile, design thinking, and lean. How do all these fit together? And how to facilitate and lead change in the age of autonomous teams and experts?
Why join us?
To whom is this for?
This course is aimed for professionals interested in improving their leadership & facilitating skills or are looking for new tools for facilitating change in an organisation.
Course
features
The course consists of 5 live lectures and pair work.
Some topics will be covered:
- facilitating a shared vision
- organisational transformation
- lean + agile + design thinking
- new kind of leadership
You will walk out of this course with an understanding of:
- how to facilitate organisational change towards a more agile and lean organisation culture
- how to use simple diagrams as tools and boundary objects in facilitating conversations and clarifying objectives
- how to apply meta skills in contemporary leadership and change agency.
Lecturers
Risto Sarvas
Professor of Practice, Information Networks
Risto is the head of Information Networks’s B.Sc. and M.Sc. programmes at Aalto University. He is a former head of design and co-founder of the culture advisory business at Futurice. He is also one of the founding members of Lean Service Creation methodology. Risto has trained and coached close to thousand professionals, students and entrepreneurs. Risto has been directly involved in a dozen cultural transformation programmes in Finnish corporations and written few books about design, change and organisations.
Jari Ylitalo
University Lecturer,
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Jari is an experienced leadership development professional, educator, coach, and facilitator. He has rich and wide experience in supporting individuals, groups and organizations to build better leadership, deeper collaboration, and efficient management practices in multiple organizations and industries. He has contributed to better leadership in roles of internal change agent, external process consultant, leadership coach, and academic scholar.
Last year practitioners said...
A great learning experience
"I liked Risto and Jari’s energy the most when they don’t beat around the bush but get straight to the point. It’s much more refreshing and interesting that way with reading materials and lectures to support the learning experience."
Lifelong learning
“Timing, Corona hit and the topic was to the point at the right time. I also liked that it was free and targeted to lifelong learning, not only to students. Topic relates to what is important to me in worklife and in creating new business. The course strengthened my view that I am on the right path. It was nicely executed online in general.
Sharing and comparing with others
““The balance of lectures and breakout rooms. The assignments with random peers were great! They provided deeper understanding and great cases from other companies! The hands-on tools (onion, DUMB etc.) are easy enough to understand and simple enough to use - and their leverage power is huge!”
It helped me with my own project
“Great course - I loved the tools and your own cases. The course was well-organized and the assignments supported me to utilize the learnings in my own work - the documentation by or together with my peer helped me understand things from own project that I hadn't thought about earlier. I would need this kind of facilitation with unfamiliar people more often!”
It empowered me in my work!
“The remote teaching was a success - I would have missed this altogether if this would have been "classical" lecture series. The exercises/pair work with different people: I got so much support and ideas to my own work as a change agent. The course empowered me in my work!”
International course
“This was a nice experience, online implementation made it possible for a wide range of people from all over the world to participate which was interesting as well. Thank you for this course and content during our otherwise strange Corona springtime.”
Interesting, relaxing, professionally led course
“You created an easy relaxed spirit and atmosphere. A person like me attending a course after a long stressful work of constant sprints running hectic work truly appreciates your clear and easy-to-follow slides and your well-articulated English (lovely clear "Finglish") with a touch of humour here and there. I really appreciate your relaxed and yet professional way to conduct the course. It is a big effort to make yourself join the course every week after the full day of work. If this had been a must-attend F2F-course in a lecture room, I would not have attended. Therefore will miss this MOOC! Thanks a lot for organizing it.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Unfortunately not, this material is just an online handbook made based on university course. If you want to get credits, you are more than welcome to join the course live each spring. Read more from here.
The handbook consists of around 10 hours of lecture videos, supported by additional readings and exercises from spring 2020 course. All of the material is split into small chapters each having multiple 10-15min videos, so that you can quickly check the topics that seem interesting to you – or go through all the chapters, as you wish!
Informaatioverkostot.fi of course 😉
