Managing the Madness 4 - A one day group relations event

Over many months the world has experienced a profound recession that is unprecedented in the last 80 years. High profile institutions have failed both structurally and systemically. Government has implemented severe cost cutting.Many work organisations are now operatiing in environments characterised by high levels of uncertainty and turbulence in the face of survival crisis and constraint.

Public and voluntary sector organisations are under constant pressure to respond to government policies, schemes and funding priorities in the face of drastic cost cutting and remuneration by results. Professional work and social enterprise have to be audited by bodies with different demands. Private companies strain under similar pressures, having to attend to employment as well as health and safety demands.

Shared leadership and flatter structures try to repsond more flexibly to uncertain funding and market environments, yet they stretch the roles of all concerned. It takes nerve to feel emotionally "contained" and secure when coping with continuous change and the threat of unemployment.

Aims and Objectives

This day event is planned for managers and professionals from a range of disciplines, whether employed in the private, public, voluntary sectors or self-employed and is designed to address these issues. The key aim of the day's event is to enable participants to understand from experience what forces are shaping their role, and what role they shape for themselves.

At this conference, participants will have the opportunity to think about their work and to:

• Develop a better understanding of group and organisational dynamics: the madness and sanity, the sicness and health created through the impact of forces both within and outside the organisation.
• Examine the concepts of roles and representation: role as related to tasks - clinical, social and managerial: representation as related to consciously taking up a role on behalf of others, or unconciously being pushed into that role by others.
• Come to know and better understand how participants relate to others in groups and their preferred emtional "climate" for work.
• Make better sense of the impact of the current global situation and models of leadership on organisational life and responsibility.

This day event draws upon, the Tavistock Group Relations Method of working by learning from experience as well as by presentation and discussion.

Please download the flyer attached for more information and the booking form.