The Worldwide Week of Partnership is a celebration of partnership. It is a yearly event that takes place during the third week in October. During that week Organization Workshop Trainers and consultants across the globe conduct workshops – The Organization Workshop on Creating Partnership and The When Cultures Meet Workshop – aimed at supporting the efforts of educational, charitable and service organizations in their local communities. Our goal is to increase mutual understanding, respect, and cooperation within these organizations and with the people they serve.
Since 1975, Power+Systems Inc.’s transformational work has focused primarily on forging partnerships in business, government, and healthcare systems across the globe. During W3P the focus is on bringing this powerful work to the local non-profit sector.
Throughout the week trainers will be conducting high-impact events developed by Barry Oshry for groups in their local communities. Most trainers will be conducting the Organization Workshop on Creating Partnership, others will be conducting the When Cultures Meet Workshop, and others will be making presentations and leading conversations focusing on partnership.
Organizations, despite having worthy missions and committed and talented people, regularly fall into painful, dysfunctional patterns – strained relationships, misunderstandings, lost opportunities, and diminished effectiveness. For organizations across the globe the Organization Workshop regularly:
The meeting of diverse cultures – whether in the organization, community, or society – too often results in destructive conflicts, the suppression of one culture by another, WE versus THEM attitudes, wasted energies, and lost possibilities.
Trainer-led presentations and conversations focusing on subjects related to creating partnership. Critical issues are explored using, books, articles, and presentations based on the work of Barry Oshry. Sample subjects: Why despite best intentions do the same dysfunctional organizational patterns keep happening?
Marcia Hyatt will be interviewing Barry Oshry on her weekly radio show (WTIP, 90.7.) The theme: “Translating a Passion for Seeing Systems into a Worldwide Week of Partnership.”
Kevin Purcell will be taking young MBA students deep into the seeing systems experience with an Organization Workshop one day and When Cultures Meet the next.
We are a worldwide consortium of consultants and trainers who have been certified in the Organization Workshop on Creating Partnership. We are committed to supporting the efforts of educational, charitable, and service organizations in our local communities.
Boston MA U.S.A.
Barry Oshry is a distinguished educator and a pioneer in the field of human systems thinking. He has focused his writing, teaching and research on the human systems dynamics arising when people are in top, middle, bottom, and customer relationships with one another.
Lutsen, MN, U.S.A.
I am passionate about each of us showing up as the best of ourselves in all aspects of our lives. Working in leadership development for over 30 years, I realize we cannot be any better leaders than we are as people.
London, U.K.
My company and my work, are devoted to finding effective and human ways to make organisations, around the world and across sectors (particularly UK public services) meet customers' needs efficiently.
"[The Organization Workshop] brought together staff from various levels of our organization. As I watched my staff open up to each other through conversation and dialogue on issues of hierarchy that rarely get discussed, I began to see a sense of teamwork and shared understanding develop among the group. The experience was personally engaging and undoubtedly left us with a greater sense of community, while giving us tools with which to address and work with issues surrounding hierarchy in our organization. I expect this training to have a lasting effect on our work!"
Andy Falender,
Executive Director,
The Appalachian Mountain Club
“The 'When Cultures Meet' simulation is one of the most powerful learning experiences Microsoft provided its leaders. It was very useful in helping people get clear on the responsibility they each own when Microsoft acquired a new company, or during the many reorganizations they experienced. In the 20 years I have been doing leadership development work, there has been no more effective learning tool to achieve these results.”
Kevin Purcell,
Organization Development
Consultant
“I am reminded time and time again how powerful The Organization Workshop is when we bring the workshop to our leaders. It has been thriving here for over 7 years! It helps leaders gain insight and provides them with alternatives to the way things are now. It’s a path to greater effectiveness for leaders and to greater partnership across the organization.”
Lily Bowen,
2VP,
Travelers
