Language: Italian (translated to English)
Level of audience: All

In a changing world that constantly invites people to play different roles, on different stages, sometimes even with confusing and contradictory demands, the workshop aims to focus on the organizational roles and the risks in the exercise of those roles that each of us plays in our work experience, starting with Schmid’s well-known theory.

Our organizational roles are a specific part of our identity and very often are are are described on paper very differently from how they are actually interpreted and played. The workshop aims to offer some tools for reading the real as well as the stated through an active exercise.

In particular, we will reason about the risks related to possible role restrictions (Schmidt) that might limit us and “take us hostage” (Kohlrieser) in the course of our professional life: role fixation, role exclusion, role contamination, role confusion. The seminar will therefore be an opportunity to make participants more aware. Guided by the presenters, participants will ask themselves, paraphrasing the title of a famous book by E. Berne, about “what (organizational) role do we play” (director, coordinator, manager, etc.) in the different “stages” that professional life invites us to tread,

will be a reflection that will enable the legacy to correctly and consistently and legitimately define its role boundaries, avoid becoming hostage to its roles and instead use them as a transformative opportunity and source of satisfaction.