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Overview of Program, Assignments & Weekends
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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.
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. |
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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. *********************************
*********************************** 2007 - 08 Cycle (CDI Cycle One - participants begin CDI in either cycle) November 9 & 10, 2007 February 22 & 23, 2008 April 18 & 19, 2008 June 6 & 7, 2008
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. 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.
Weekend One
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
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
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" 4. Read Section 4 of the Manual - On a diocesan congregational development system
Weekend Four
************************************* 2009 - 10 Cycle (CDI Cycle Two participants begin CDI in either cycle)
October 17 - 18, 2008 January 9 - 10, 2009 March 13 - 14, 2009 June 5 - 6, 2009
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. 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.
Weekend One
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
Assignment for Weekend Three 1. Re-read from CDI Manual - Parish Mergers & Organizational Culture (3- 114 to 117) Or new paper on same. 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
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
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