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Paul Dobson, a British specialist who has concluded that one cannot change organizational culture, one can only compensate new behaviors, has written, "The definition of culture is just about the ugliest can of worms that you are likely to come across in the social sciences.  Anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, management scientists and business strategists, to name but a few, have all tried to define it...   Unfortunately few of these authors explain how or why culture leads to commitment, produces social stability or guides behavior, and so on."

The Purpose Of This Training Program

This program introduces participants to the concept of organizational character and it also represents a mirror for self-understanding within the team and the organization.  It includes exercises which allow groups to look at themselves non-defensively, to reflect on their own tendencies as a group and to show them what they might do about tendencies which are not permitting them to attain their objectives.

The Content

1. William Bridges' Concept of Organizational Character.
2. The Difference Between Culture Change And Working With Organizational Character
3. The Organizational Character Index.
4. Individual Personality Type And How It Can Fit In Or Not With Organizational   Character.
5. The Eight Basic Components of Organizational Character
6. Evaluate Your Organization's Character And Its Place In the Organizational Life-Cycle.
7. The Sixteen Different Organizational Character Types.
8. Career Development Strategies Which Take Into Account Organizational Character.
9. How Organizational Character Should Be Taken Into Account At Times of Change and Transition.

The Delivery Format

This program can be given in-house in English or in French.  The best format is to work with a group of Human Resource Professionals, Managers or Change Agents who need something more concrete than the concept of culture to monitor changes going on in the organization and to coach employees about possible mismatches between preferred organizational and individual behavior patterns.  For information,  please contact : J.Gaynard@syre.com

 Phone/Tél : (33) (0)1 30 61 46 17

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The site of William Bridges. Not only did Bridges more or less invent the concept of Transition Management in organizations, he is also one of the best writers of English alive today.

http://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/L2L/spring2000/bridges.html : Leading Transition a new model for organizational change.  William Bridges talks to Susan Mitchell.