Master Class: Building a Change-Capable Workplace Community
An in-depth learning journey into developing change capability, fostering collective leadership, and building a sustainable organizational culture – utilizing the Inner Development Goals (IDG) framework.
HR Professionals, Supervisors and Change Agents
For organizational developers, HR professionals, supervisors, consultants, and team leaders who want to strengthen the change capability of their workplace community.
IDG + Organizational Development
We combine community education, theories of organizational development, and the Inner Development Goals framework into a holistic learning experience.
15 ECTS Master Class
Five modules, contact sessions, and independent work between sessions. Throughout the programme, you will work on a real development challenge from your own organization.
Why this Master Class?
- You will build change capability at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
- You will learn to operate effectively in complexity and uncertainty.
- You will strengthen psychological safety, trust, and shared direction.
- You will develop skills in facilitation, dialogue, and collective leadership.
- You will apply your learning in practice through development work in your own organization between modules.
Study path – five modules
Relationship with Self and Others
Self-awareness, presence, and psychological safety. Trust and a shared purpose in times of change.
Complexity and Thinking
Systems thinking, sensemaking, and resistance to change as a resource. Foresight and a long-term orientation.
Collective Leadership
Shared leadership, facilitation, and dialogue. Addressing conflicts as a resource for learning and development.
Action and Experimentation
A culture of experimentation, change interventions, and practical implementation. Courage and perseverance in embedding change into everyday work.
Sustainable Change Capability
Embedding change, hybrid community building, well-being, and continuous development. Making change capability an integral part of organizational culture.
Implementation and learning rhythm
The Master Class consists of five contact sessions (2 days per module) as well as development work carried out between the sessions. During the interim periods, you will apply what you have learned in your own organization and reflect on your progress in a learning journal through the IDG dimensions. The programme also includes peer group work and mentoring by the facilitators.
Final project
You will prepare a development plan for a change-capable workplace, including an analysis of the current state, concrete actions, assigned responsibilities and a timeline, along with a reflection on your own development as a change agent.
What will you gain from the programme?
- The ability to assess your workplace community’s change capability and identify areas for development.
- Facilitation skills and methods for co-creation, dialogue, and learning.
- Tools to strengthen psychological safety, trust, and shared agency.
- Practical approaches to navigating complexity and building a culture of experimentation.
- A completed development plan ready to be implemented in your own organization.
Interested? Request more information
Ask about the schedule, price, and delivery format. We can also tailor the Master Class into an organization-specific development programme.
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Sikke Leinikki
Head of Business Services Helsingin kampus