CHANGE THEORY AND EDUCATION INNOVATION SESSION I

AGENDA Introductions Your Perspectives On Change And Innovation Introduce My Premise About Change Course Objectives And Overview Session One

CHANGE What is change? What is innovation? Which comes first?

PREMISE Change is the diffusion of innovations “… essentially a social process in which subjectively perceived information about a new idea is communicated from person to person.” Everett Rogers, Diffusion of Innovations Starts with “me” Continues, grows, stalls or dies with “we” Managing relationships and differences My focus will be on “process” not “content”

COURSE OBJECTIVES Understanding Me And Others Change Valuing differences Change Thinking, Learning and Communicating process Effect Of Change/Innovations On Me, Others, Groups, Organizations And Systems Planning For And Developing Change/Innovations Apply Change Principles To Improve Educational Outcomes For Low Socio-economic Communities

COURSE OVERVIEW UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES AND OTHERS MY THINKING AND LEARNING IN CHANGE THINKING IDENTIFYING AND RESOLVING ISSUES CHANGE AND RESISTANCE CHANGE MODELS ORGANIZATIONAL DIAGNOSIS ORGANIZATIONAL DIAGNOSIS (Continued) ORGANIZATION DESIGN & DEBRIEFING PROJECT/WRITING PAPER AS PAIRS/TRIADS/QUADS

SESSION ONE OVERVIEW UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES AND OTHERS Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Identify our preferences among the 8 Jungian Mental Functions available to us Our preferences, others preferences Understanding Ourselves Understanding Others Valuing differences Capitalizing on differences Assignment

ASSIGNMENT Here’s what I learned One - two pages (Include type in title) My strengths are, give examples My blind spots/pitfalls are, give examples What I will do differently and when Email to me NLT, Noon, Monday, January 16 rfritz@bellarmine.edu Preparation for next class

PREPARATION Read Type in Organizations pp. 1 – 8, Nudge pp. 1 – 54 Find Your Type pp. 9 – 25 Decision Making pp. 30 -31 Nudge pp. 1 – 54 Diffusion of Innovations pp. 1 – 38 Critical Thinking, What It Is And Why It Counts