CDI assignments

Assignments

For Diocesan CDI’s

For Cycles One & Two

Overview

This document will provide participants in diocesan CDI information on what work is assigned for each session.

Participants need to take responsibility for understanding which cycle and weekend they are in. Please note that you ma have entered the program in either cycle

Changes to the assignments may be made in a local CDI. Trainers will notify participants of any changes.

Required Readings

These assignments related segments of the required readings to the weekends. Not all the required readings are connected to a particular weekend. Participants need to establish their 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 not 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.

Cycle One

Participants from last year -- Congregational Development Project Reports Due as assigned by your training staff.

Assignment for Weekend One (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). Until the book is published it will be e-mailed as an attachment prior to the session Bring it with you to the weekend.

2. 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.

3. 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

4. Order the books on the required reading list

Weekend One – Cycle One

· Shared Leadership

· Building your team

· Exam on Core Frameworks

· Core Frameworks - Application Exercise

· Action Research

· Organization Development Overview

· Critical Mass Theory

Follow-up reading from the Manual

· Review section on The Program

· Core Frameworks, especially “On the Use of Core Frameworks”

· Organization Development

· Critical Mass Theory (in section on Systems & Interventions)

· Trust Development in Organizations (in Manual section on Trust Development & Conflict Management)

· Shared Leadership (in Manual section on Shared Leadership)

Assignment for Weekend Two (Cycle One)

1. Complete the Three Interviews Process – in Manual in section on Assessment, Diagnosis & Planning Tools

2. Review section in the manual Meetings & Teams: Process & Tools

3. Read "Survey-Feedback in Parishes" – In The Hope of Glory: Congregational Options

4. Read in manual pages related to feedback in Meetings & Teams: Process & Tools

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."

6. Bring to the weekend the booklets on Type – “Introduction to Type in Organizations” and “In the Grip: Understanding Type, Stress and the Inferior Function”

Weekend Two (Cycle One)

· Type and Leadership [Bring the booklets on Type]

· 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)

· Receive conflict cases for use in Weekend Three

· Mid point check-in

Follow-up reading

Booklets and book on Type -- “Introduction to Type in Organizations;” “In the Grip: Understanding Type, Stress and the Inferior Function” and The Character of Organizations

Assignment for Weekend Three (Cycle One)

1. Read Trust - Conflict cases (handout provided during Weekend Two)

2. Read Manual -- on Trust Development and Conflict Management

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 "inter-group relations interventions."

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

5. Read in The Hope of Glory: Congregational Options material on Six Strategies for Growth, Congregational Options: An Overview, and Parish Size: Categories, Dynamics, and Issues

6. Read in Manual – Sizing Up a Congregation in section on Growth & Evangelization

7. Read Contextual Issues (in Manual section on Organizational Context)

Weekend Three (Cycle One)

· 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 (Cycle One)

1. Complete "Use of Self ... Self Assessment" (in Manual – handouts section)

2. Review "Request for Certificate" in The Program section of the manual. Copies will be available for you to sign at the weekend if this is your last session.

3. Read OD text on the Kurt Lewin Change Model - in Cummings & Worley in the chapter on "The Nature of Planned Change."

4. Read The Hope of Glory: Congregational Options – Elements of a Diocesan Parish Development System

Weekend Four (Cycle One)

· 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 of Self Assessment)

· Evaluation of the Cycle

Cycle Two

Participants from last year -- Congregational Development Project Reports Due as assigned by your training staff.

Assignment for Weekend One (all cycles)

This assignment is for new and returning participants

4. Order the books on the required reading list

Weekend One (Cycle Two)

· 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

Follow-up reading from the Manual

· Congregational Leadership in Anxious Times, Peter Steinke

· Review section on The Program

· Core Frameworks, especially “On the Use of Core Frameworks”

· Organization Development

Assignment for Weekend Two (Cycle 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 in OD text -- Cummings & Worley -- chapter on "The Nature of Planned Change

3. Read Manual – Organizational Culture

4. Read in Corporate Culture, Schein –Chapters 2, 3, 6, 7

5. Read Manual -Three World Views (in Organizational Culture section)

Weekend Two (Cycle Two)

· Parish Visits -- On Friday - Gather at the first parish 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 (Cycle Two)

1. Read in The Hope of Glory: Congregational Options - Parish Mergers & Organizational Culture

2. Read in the OD text - Cummings & Worley - chapter on Designing Interventions and the chapter on Managing Change (just text not cases)

3. Read “Long Range Thinking About Development” (in Manual section on Organization Development)

Weekend Three (Cycle Two)

· Intervention Theory & Practice

· Long Range Thinking - Advance Thinking About Your Project

· Parish Mergers - relate to intervention theory and culture

· Life Cycle in Organizations

· Situational Leadership

· Facilitative Interventions (Schein's approach)

· Group Development Theory (ICA)

· Feedback in your team

Assignment for Weekend Four (Cycle Two)

1. Read in The Hope of Glory: Congregational Options - Defining & Marketing the Congregation (in Six Strategies ..); Three Growth Strategies.

2. Complete a self-assessment using Congregational Development Leadership/Consultant Assessment (in section on Assessment, Diagnosis & Planning Tools”) We will use your work in a process of sharing and feedback in weekend four. Note: Even those completing CDI are not expected to rate highly in some areas or at all in others. 3. Read OD text - Cummings & Worley - material on Process Consultation.

4. Review "Request for Certificate" in The Program section of the manual. Copies will be available for you to sign at the weekend if this is your last session.

Weekend Four (Cycle Two)

· Defining & Marketing the Parish

· Negotiating Vision (the politics of it)

· Triangulation issues

· Form Learning - Application Teams

· 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