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Come walk with us: A PDW on teaching about positive relationships

  • 1.  Come walk with us: A PDW on teaching about positive relationships

    Posted 07-30-2016 03:49

    *** Apologies for cross-posting


    Being Generative: Teaching about Relationships and Teaching Relationship Courses

    Do you want to know more  about teaching positive relationships at work? Come join us in a workshop with lively discussions of new and impactful approaches.


    Saturday, Aug 6 2016 10:15AM - 12:45PM at Anaheim Convention Center in 207

    Convener: Jane E. Dutton, U. of Michigan "Designing a High Impact Course on Managing Relationships for MBAs"
    Convener: Arne Carlsen, BI Norwegian Business School "Teaching Generative Relationships through Experiential Learning"
    Presenter: Sally Maitlis, U. of Oxford "Empathy at Work"
    Presenter: Wendy Marcinkus Murphy, Babson College "Mapping and Imagining Your Developmental Network"
    Presenter: Tyrone S. Pitsis, U. of Leeds/U. of Cambridge "The Art of Collaboration"
    Presenter: John Paul Stephens, Case Western Reserve U. "Leading Negotiations with Character"
    Presenter: Lloyd Sandelands, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor "5 Steps to Real Relation"
    Presenter: Kristina Workman, Cornell U. "Sharing & Responding to Positive and Negative Emotions at Work"

    This Professional Development Workshop deploys a  creative and interactive design to foster learning and conversation  about how to teach relationship-focused courses and concepts in  organization behavior and organizational theory. We bring together 8  researcher-teachers who do work in the broad area of positive  relationships to share "teaching blasts" as a way to generate ideas and  insights about how to do impactful teaching in this content domain.  These blasts cover a variety of new and impactful teaching approaches,  both with regards to novel content and effective pedagogy. In addition,  we will provide the means for all attendees to share stories about  teaching relationship courses and concepts with the goal of creating a  generative resource that everyone can use after the PDW to continue  learning in this increasingly critical domain of management and  organizational scholarship. The PDW will be highly interactive. Please join us for a novel and generative session together on this exciting topic.

    The PDW is designed to catalyze and inspire new ways  of teaching about the relational side of organizations to students of  all types in business schools. People attending this PDW will be exposed  to multiple examples of highly impactful ways of teaching about  relationships in work organizations as part of core courses (in  organization behavior, human resource management or leadership) or as  separate stand-alone electives. Pre-registration is encouraged for this event. Please contact janedut@umich.edu to register by August 04, 2016.