Participatory Management Models
Practical workshops on modern leadership and facilitation. Participants learn how to move away from traditional, hierarchical structures toward self-organization, involving employees in decision-making and building accountable, autonomous teams in the spirit of 'teal' organizations.
Course schedule
Introduction to participatory management
The evolution of management styles from hierarchy to network. F. Laloux's concept of teal organizations. Teal, Agile and Holacracy in practice.
Self-organization in teams
Building agile structures. Distributing roles and responsibilities in organizations without formal leaders. Techniques to prevent the diffusion of responsibility.
Decision-making & facilitation
How to make decisions inclusively. Consent vs. consensus. Meeting-facilitation tools (e.g. Liberating Structures, Open Space Technology).
Communication culture & transparency
The role of radical candor and open feedback (360). Financial and strategic transparency as a foundation of team trust.
Managing conflict in a flat structure
De-escalation methods. Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in business practice. Resolving disputes without direct intervention from senior managers.
Workshop: modeling the transformation
Working on a case study from the participant's own organization. Auditing the current culture and developing a roadmap toward a more participatory model.