Finding connections – an action seminar in informal and meaningful connections
Formal organisation structures identify the relationship between leaders and staff. Yet everyone knows that it is the informal network of relationships, the people who get together because they want to, that helps get work done. Finding people we enjoy working with rather than the ones we have to makes work meaningful.
The originator, J. L. Moreno, discovered that by making choices overt and active, we would be more spontaneous, authentic and organisations and group structures become fresh, clear and lively. What criteria helps you connect easily with others in your workplace and how do you make that connection authentic.
Discover ways of being more effective and influential with your colleagues and senior leaders.
Using sociometric methods Diana Jones will help you explore moment by moment choices and connections you make within our group as we make sense of formal structures and informal networks in our emerging relationships.
To Apply
Send your name and contact details to diana@psychodrama.org.nz.
Enquiries
Diana Jones: dianaj@diana-jones.com
Website: http://diana-jones.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianajonesnz/
Phone: 021522620
Wellington Psychodrama Training Institute
Dates and Times
Tuesday 12th March 2019 10am – 12 noon
Venue
IQA LEAP Dojo, Level 8, 93 the Terrace (go through the glass doors next to Gasoline cafe)
Fee
$35.00
Leader
Diana Jones
Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington Campus
Diana Jones is a sociometrist, and Trainer Educator Practitioner with AANZPA. She was AANZPA Executive Treasurer for four years, past President of FTINZ, the former Chair of PANZ and the current AANZPA Journal Editor.
For 35 years, Diana was executive coach and leadership advisor to business leaders and their teams applying sociometry, role training, group work, and sociodrama to refresh informal relationship networks, radically improving group dynamics, and assist executives grapple with business dilemmas. She helped over 450 senior leaders to shift to being in the moment as they influenced and led groups in her Executive Presence programme. Diana has published two books on sociometry in leadership; Leadership Material: how personal experience shapes executive presence (2017) and Leadership Levers: Releasing the power of relationships for exceptional participation, alignment and team results (2022).
As academic supervisor in the MA Applied Programme at Victoria University for nine years she worked alongside business and arts leaders as graduates developed policy and its application in practice. Diana led residential leadership programmes for senior leaders based on group work and peer learning for the New Zealand College of Management for six years. She is an accredited organisation behaviour observer and feedback giver with the Centre for Creative Leadership in North Carolina.
Diana is a portrait artist, a former chair of the Wellington Women’s Homeless Trust, a gym and Pilates enthusiast, a te reo tauira, and not having children of her own, lives the miracle of being the third grandmother to four.