Institute for Change: Developing Strong Leaders, Strong Organizations
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“In a rapidly changing world, leaders and organizations must constantly change. Strong leaders change organizations. Strong organizations allow their leaders to reach their full potential creating the depth and breadth to innovate and win.” |
The Institute for Change is SEIU’s leadership development and organizational change program. It seeks to advance social and economic justice by helping SEIU locals develop their leaders, strengthen their organizations, and increase the power of the labor movement.
The Institute has developed, tested and refined a unique approach to transforming SEIU locals while strengthening their leaders. It draws on the expertise of an exceptional and nontraditional faculty of innovators in a wide range of sectors. The Institute regards change as the lifeblood of effective leaders and organizations, and recognizes that all real learning involves risk. It is committed to the goal of building real power.
The results are compelling from the first three years of work with eight SEIU locals, representing 319,371 members. Participating locals have crafted ambitious 10-year visions, increased opportunities to lead, accelerated organizing efforts, increased membership, improved internal processes, structures and communication, and driven new public policy and electoral initiatives.
Treating leadership development and organizational change as the twin, interdependent engines of power-building, the Institute enables individual leaders to develop specific characteristics and skills while they are planning and implementing large-scale transformations of their organizations.
In short, the Institute challenges SEIU locals to dare to excel. If they are to prevail in the fight for the minds and hearts of the American public, SEIU locals must leverage one critical idea: leaders grow in organizations that change, and organizations gain power when they promote the development of their leaders.
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