Presenter: Warren Garrett, Ontario Presenting Network Date: September 20, 2017 For more information about CPAMOPOC project: https://cpamo.org/equity-education-in-the-arts/

1. Organiza(onal Leadership
A development process on
organiza(onal leadership and
transforma(on for Arts Service
Organiza(ons

2. Advance Readings and Prepara(on
Personal Strengths Finder
• Take University of Pennsylvania’s VIA Strengths
Finder (20’)
Advance Readings - one of:
• Associa'ons Unorthodox, Jeff DeCagna
• Using Emergence to Take Innova'on to Scale,
Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Friez
• A Framework for Success for Nonprofit
Federa'ons (Revised), Linda Mollenhauer

3. What is Leadership?
For our purposes let’s use Jane Marsland’s simple defini(on:
Stepping forward and taking responsibility.
Of leadership’s many admirable quali(es, five stand out:
ü Focus and clarity of mind
ü Ac(vely listening & sensing
ü Con(nually learning
ü Adap(ng
ü Responsible and accountable

4. Where does it start?
With yourself.

5. A useful framework on learning
1. Learning to Be.
2. Learning to be together.
3. Learning to know.
4. Learning to do.
Source: 1996 UNESCO Commission on Learning

6. Impromptu Networking Exercise
• Find a partner and each take one minute each
to discuss your top four character strengths,
find & repeat with 2 other people; total (me:
6-8 minutes
• Come back to circle for group conversa(on
(20’);
– What is observed?
– What is important?
– How might this self-awareness be useful?

7. Leading the Good Life: PERMA
• Posi(ve emo(on
• Engagement (flow)
• Rela(onships
• Meaning
• Achievement

8. PERMA Flourishing Scale Exercise
• 10’ self-exercise

9. Provoking Thoughts
Presenta(on from Ten Things to Do in a
Conceptual Emergency, Interna(onal Futures
Forum, 2009 (20’)

10. Lunch

11. Organiza(onal Leadership
• Efficacy of our Missions (1-2-4, All
Conversa(ons) 20’
• Gaining Clarity of Purpose (use T. Irene
Sanders’ FutureScape Mapping Exercise) (90’)
– Working in pairs, use the Strategic Thinking Grid
and FutureScape map to iden(fy a central issue
that needs to be addressed.

12. Goal Segng (45’)
• Demonstra(on and prac(ce of goal segng
using WOOP technique (Oegngen &
Gollwitzer)

13. Wrap-up (20’)
• Plenary Circle
– What has occurred here today?
– What is important?
– What are your next steps?