Design and lead system-wide organizational change with confidence

Seattle University OSR Master’s graduate students should be able to:

• Improve performance — Light a fire by engaging the whole organizational system to clarify purpose and align resources toward a preferred and sustainable future
• Reframe “problem solving” — See the North star above the forest. Identify the key issues and dynamics of complex organizational systems and then intervene, “disturbing” the system to achieve desired results
• Design and lead change — Sense the way out of the maze by using ambiguity, tension, and chaos as resources
• Facilitate productive communication — Connect hearts by designing and leading effective meetings, contracting for clear and clean feedback, and working with conflict as energy to be aligned
• Develop collaboration — Help your organization sing as one choir, achieving results greater than the sum of the individual contributions
• Engage diverse perspectives — Create a collage of new meaning, growing an organization that is more adaptable, resilient, creative, and sustainable
• Build organizational culture — Infuse the air with a spirit that embraces individual and organizational learning, encouraging individuals to fully “show up” in their work with their mind, heart and body
• Contribute to a just and humane world — Be of service by appreciating, attending to, and ethically serving your own community and the world at large
• Systems Thinking — Students will develop the ability to see systems and their interdependencies and to partner with complex, living systems where control is not realistic and uncertainty and ambiguity are generative allies. 
• Design — Students will develop the skills and abilities to design, facilitate and lead change by co-creating a preferred future in a service relationship with a client that relies on consultative skills.
• Leadership/followership — Students will recognize that both leadership and followership are intentional activities rather than roles; they will develop the leadership capacity to work with complex systems from a perspective of seeing the whole and with the recognition that leadership competency begins with leading oneself and following one’s heart.
• Inquiry — Students will develop the capacity to learn, coach, design, lead and intervene through effective and genuinely curious inquiry of individuals, groups and organizations.
• Personal Mastery — Students will develop the heart (courage, love and compassion), skills and integrity to move theory to practical action and develop themselves as instruments of innovation, renewal, health and wholeness for the world.

For complete list of Learning Outcomes for Seattle University Graduate Students, click here.