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Paradox 4


Any organization seeking to change itself must equip its leaders and managers to lead and manage “in the Gap.”

Day three of the Change Workshop should focus on giving participants state-of-the-art thinking and research on the dynamics of organizational change and transferring an organizational change framework the leadership team can use to lead and manage change “in the Gap.” The framework we have developed comes from the integration of what we learned from our research and our practice with clients. We then integrated that with state-of-the-art thinking by leading scholars from the fields of psychology, education, business, leadership development, conflict management, and organizational behavior.

This framework integrates the individual's transition process (below the line) with the organizational response (above the line) that facilitates both organizational change and employee transition. It allows leaders to accomplish both adaptive and technical work simultaneously.

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"This has been a valuable experience for me. Not only have I served as part of the 'solution' -- I have experienced and adopted techniques to help me bring divergent thinking into a common atmosphere of meeting interests and solving problems."

- Michael Johnson, President
New Jersey Education Association