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Creating Identity Laboratories to Enable Executive Change and Transformation (2006)

Manfred Kets de Vries, Konstantin Korotov

"Design of transfor- mational executive programs"

This working paper describes the design of transformational executive programs. To understand what happens in the transformational process, three triangular conceptual frameworks (taken from short-term dynamic psychotherapy) are presented. Five major challenges in program design are also examined: the criteria for selecting participants; identifying the focal problem on which participants need to work; the creation of a safe transitional space that enables the change process; how to use the group dynamic to arrive at internalization of the change process; and the educational implications for faculty, facilitators, and coaches.

INSEAD Working Paper, 2006

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