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Next Webinar: An introduction to Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to managing organizational change – Ralph Rogers

Most recent webinar: Understanding the Basics of Design Thinking – Evrim Üstünlüoğlu

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Our next webinar

14th March, 2020 – 10.00 UK time

An introduction to Appreciative Inquiry as an approach to managing organizational change – Ralph Rogers

Appreciative inquiry is a strengths-based approach to managing organizational change. Traditional approaches to organizational change are deficit based. They identify problems, come up with solutions to those problems and then implement the best solution.  This traditional deficit-based approach is great for increasing efficiency in organizations; however, it has the unintended consequence of creating a sense of fatigue and a lack of engagement amongst staff. Appreciative Inquiry identifies an organization’s strengths and those things that have made it successful in the past and uses that as a platform to imagine, design, and deliver an even better future.

There are five phases to an appreciative Inquiry. The process starts by defining the topic of inquiry, the questions we ask ourselves are fateful. We will move in the direction of that which we inquire about. The second phase is discovery, a search to identify what has made us successful in the past. The third phase, dream, is where we imagine what our future might look like and agree on future images and possibilities that we want to pursue. The fourth phase, design, is where we start to come up with actionable ideas about the steps that we might take to realise the ideal future that we have described. The final phase, deliver, is where, because we cocreated them, we are motivated to begin the implementation of our designs.

In this hour-long webinar, we will look at these phases in more detail, as well as some of the theories and principles underlying Appreciative Inquiry.

Bio: Ralph joined the British Council in 2015, first as Director of Business Development in Beijing, moving to Guangzhou in 2016 to take up the position of South China Area Director. Ralph took up the position of Director Taiwan in October 2019.

Before joining the British Council, Ralph spent fifteen years supporting a wide variety of UK companies and institutions enter and grow in the China market, most recently as Managing Director of the British Chamber of Commerce in China.

Ralph graduated in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Leeds in 1999 and received his Master’s in Applied Translation in 2000.

When he isn’t developing cultural relations, Ralph loves getting outside and going for a run, but most of all he enjoys family life with his wife and two children.

Our most recent webinar

Understanding the Basics of Design Thinking – Evrim Üstünlüoğlu

This webinar has now taken place – the recording can be viewed here

Success  in today’s highly competitive world requires a person to develop  a completely new set of skills. Thus, we, as educators, are expected to equip our students with the skills needed  for 21^st century through the use of  innovative perspectives, tools, and approaches. One of these is design thinking, a problem-solving method adapted  from the field of design.

This webinar will briefly explain  design thinking, areas of application, goals,  philosophy,  and its procedures.  The webinar will then explore  in detail how to approach a problem by using design thinking phases, and demonstrate its use with   examples of real problems faced by  school leaders and teachers. The explanations on design thinking phases  will also examine  different thinking skills, such as convergent and divergent thinking.

Outline

• What is DT?
• A brief history of DT?
• What are the goals of DT education?
• What is the philosophy behind it?
• What are the skills needed to implement DT?
• What are the different phases  of DT?
• How can you implement this approach as a school leader/a teacher?

Bio: Evrim Üstünlüoğlu is based in Izmir, Turkey, and she currently holds a position as  an associate professor at  Izmir University of Economics.  She received her BA and MA degree in TEFL, and her Ph.D. in Educational Sciences. She has been an English instructor and also worked as the director of School of Foreign Languages for over 25 years. She has many publications in international/national journals, and  has been awarded  scholarships to conduct research and to teach as a visiting scholar abroad. She is a  founding member of the national language education and accreditation association (DEDAK) in Turkey, and also of TESOL Turkey, established in 2017. She has certificates in  accreditation reviewing. Her expertise and interests are quality in education, program development, teaching/learning approaches, and educational leadership.

Past webinars:

The following list is of all the webinars that LAMSIG has previously held.  The recordings of all these webinars are available to be viewed in our members’ area

(NOTE: members’ area is password protected. Members will have received the password in the various editions of the e-newsletter to members. If you do not have the password, please get in touch – using the contact form and quoting your IATEFL member number)

We also held a webinar with the Fairlist

‘Preparing for your first keynote talk or plenary.’

It was especially aimed at women who are thinking about dipping their toes in these waters for the first time.

The speakers were Susan Barduhn and Simon Greenall.

Susan is a Professor at SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont and a Past President and currentInternational Ambassador for IATEFL. She has been honored to give plenaries in 17 countries.

Simon has been a textbook writer for more years than he cares to admit. Giving plenaries has been an essential but often challenging requirement of the day job.

The recording of the webinar can be viewed here: http://iatefl.adobeconnect.com/p6ybav71815/

IATEFL is also running a number of free webinars for members.

Details can be found at the following link

http://www.iatefl.org/web-events/webinars