Transformational Leader/Facilitator
Competency Guidelines

The Role

Transformational Facilitator - Facilitating profound learning and change using evolving interventions ie participative design, etc. in evolving whole systems to assist in the achievement of systemic sustainability.

Transformational Facilitator skills are for Facilitators who are involved in:

1. Strategies to move their systems towards a learning type organization and raising the collective consciousness (orgmind) of the systems.

2. Replacing low-impact structured interventions with unstructured systemic learning.

3. Facilitating learning and change based on the needs of the system as a "whole" and individuals as parts of the "whole".

4. Tapping the capacity of the system and individuals to thrive in the white waters of Far-From-Equilibrium.

5. Reinforcing and/or facilitating continuing learning in a system following structured interventions.

6. Facilitating the design and/or implementation of new systems or processes.

7. Facilitating the ongoing learning of individuals, with a specific focus on team and organizational leaders.

Competency Overview

The Transformational Facilitator & Leader competencies include Facilitating, Intervening and Transforming, and cover the following skills:

	Clarifying
	Listening and Responding
	Positioning
	Influencing
	Participative Design
	Process Integrating
	Benchmarking
	Changing
	Process Reviewing

In addition, the a workshop develops a real understanding of:

	Organizations as open systems
	The theory of complex adaptive systems
	Whole Systems Evolution
	Continuous learning
	Organizational transformation

Competency Clusters

Facilitating

Facilitating - How to work with a system, or individuals, to develop learning and work processes thereby achieving continuous learning.

Intervening

Intervening - How to assist a system, or individuals, to effectively attain agreed objectives and continuous learning through intentional interventions into task and relationship processes.

Transforming

Transforming - How to bridge the gap between individual learning and organizational action to achieve sustainability.