2024-2025 / GEST3062-1

Strength-based Change

Duration

24h Th, 60h AUTR

Number of credits

 Master in management, professional focus in MBA (MBA)5 crédits 

Lecturer

Frank Lambrechts

Language(s) of instruction

English language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

UHasselt Professor Frank Lambrechts, Professor of organizational learning and change, and Wim Croonen, HR business and organization development expert, will facilitate a workshop on Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as an innovative strength-based approach to organization development and transformative whole system change. Participants will discover the power of AI and learn about key principles, practices, and applications. The impact of AI will be explored and highlighted by real-life cases. The workshop will help participants to incorporate AI principles and practices in their own professional contexts.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Several teaching methods are used in this multidisciplinary seminar:

  • No home work
  • All-inclusive appreciative inquiry (AI) to set the scope
  • Inquiry into real-life business cases that have worked with AI
  • Individual and group assignments
  • Experiential exercises
  • Teamwork  / Break-out sessions
  • Additional illustrations by expert

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

face-to-face

Course materials and recommended or required readings

Method
Process evaluation:
Content:

  • Contribution to assignments
  • Individual reflection on personal key learning points during the workshop
  • Development of concrete ideas and action plan on applications of AI in own professional and/or personal life - initiation and implementation AI process
Criteria
The process evaluation will be judged according to several criteria:
  • Scope of learning harvest (extent of the exploration/inquiry process and links made)
  • Depth of learning harvest (what is the depth of personal inquiry ranging from superficial to in-depth; to what extent are assumptions/ideas questioned?)
  • To what extent does the participant report what the experience of the seminar has meant for him/her (what was the effect of the experience on me?)

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

The seminar will take place at the Kloster Heidberg in Eupen. It will be organized over a weekend from Friday 5pm until Sunday 1pm.

Contacts

frank.lambrechts@uhasselt.be

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