The 2011 PNODN Board has created and exciting schedule of topics and speakers for the next six months. We encourage you to register and pay early to take advantage of the registration fee discount for early birds!
Mark the dates on your calendar and plan to join us in 2011 for this wide range of OD topics!
TIME FRAME: November 14, 2011 – Please note date change - this will be the 2nd Monday of November - not the third
TOPIC: The Changing Face of Leadership
Presenter: Dede Henley & Bob Elton
Session description:
Old ways of doing business no longer work: the increasingly intense competitive challenges of the world economy challenge everyone, everywhere, to adapt in order to prosper under new rules. In this session, you will learn the five strategies to build a gender-balanced, rockin’ leadership team!
Takeaways:
• Expanded understanding of what women on leadership teams make possible
• Identification of barriers to a balanced leadership team in your organization
• Strategies to support your organization in building better leadership teams
For details and to register visit www.pnodn.org
Welcome to the PNODN wiki, and an overview of our monthly speakers:
TIME FRAME: January 24, 2011
TOPIC: Business Literacy
Presenter: Yolanda Christianson & Chris Sakas
Session Title: MASTERING AN INDIVIDUAL OD SALES STRATEGY
Session description: Organization Development Consulting can be hard to explain. Basically, clients don’t know they need you because, well – they don’t know what they don’t know! Ironically, the same is true in landing business. This session builds your individual competence in strengthening your ability to know: what kind of clients are ideal for you, what sales opportunities to listen for in conversations, how to sense the right timing to extend your expertise, and build a working model that suits your individual needs to sustain your sales building competence.
TIME FRAME: February 28, 2011
TOPIC: Change
Presenter: Robert Spencer
Session Title: HOW CHANGE PROGRAMS FAIL
Session description: This session provides an opportunity to learn how to avoid problems that commonly undermine improvement initiatives and change programs. In this facilitated discussion, participants will increase their personal effectiveness as change managers. All principles are illustrated through stories, sometimes successful, sometimes less so, but all to help OD practitioners understand what they need to do to help organizations get more out of their initiatives and change efforts. Key topics include:
• Counter-intuitive change factors that get in the way of success
• How and when to engage informal leaders
• Importance of enablement vs. motivation
• Keys to controlling resistance and stress
• How to best to build capabilities for today and to sustain results
TIME FRAME: March 21, 2011
TOPIC: Using the MBTI to Facilitate System Thinking in Groups
Presenter: Nalani Linder
Session description: Today’s OD practitioner confronts an increasing need for systems thinking: to see the bigger picture, to consider how organizational choices are impacted and impact others, to find sustainable solutions. Yet linear, short-term problem-solving can prevail when groups come together to think through strategies. This presentation will share useful insights from recent research on systems thinking and Myers Brigg typologies, including who may be more naturally suited towards aspects of systems thinking. It will incorporate participants’ experiences with using the MBTI, it will include how to consider typology when needing to increase a team’s capacity for holistic thinking. Participants will leave with data about the correlation of systems thinking to specific thinking styles; words and phrases to listen for that help recognize systems vs. linear thinking in a diverse group of thinkers; and ideas for different questions to ask to encourage more systemic perspectives with specific thinking types.
TIME FRAME: April 18, 2011
TOPIC: Strategic Project Management
Presenter: Terry Schmidt
Session Title: STRATEGIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT MADE SIMPLE
Session description: A Fortune magazine study suggests that 70% of all organizational projects fail, but not because of poor strategy. The problem was inability to turn strategic intent into executable project plans. This session offers a best-practice approach to design, implement, and evaluate projects and strategic initiatives of all types. Based on four simple questions that populate an interactive systems thinking matrix, the approach provides particular value at the “fuzzy front end” of change management, organization development and systems improvement projects.
TIME FRAME: May 16, 2011
TOPIC: Leadership
Presenter: Rudy F. Williams, Ph.D. and Robert Brown, Ph.D.
Session Title: MISTAKE-PROOFING LEADERSHIP: THE CORE COMPETENCY.
Session description: This session involves applying medical bundle and mistake-proofing concepts to leadership in ways with which practitioners are most likely not familiar. Given that (1) leader shortcomings are the source of much of the waste that binds organizations, (2) leaders can and should clean up the waste, and (3) they can and should stop creating it, we offer attendees a way to counter these problems by applying leadership bundle concepts and mistake-proofing practices to leadership work; e.g., to delegating, problem solving and creating high-functioning teams.
TIME FRAME: June 13, 2011 – Please note date change
TOPIC: Coaching
Presenter: Sam Magill
Session Title: USE OF SELF AS AN INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE
Session description: This presentation will exploring the humanity we bring to our work which presents research findings which suggest three things that determine successful work: the character of the consultant, the relationship between consultant and client, and thorough grounding in a theory / practice / method/ belief system about change.
December 13, 2010 ~ Peggy Holman presented "Order from Chaos: A Theory and Practice for Turning Upheaval into Opportunity".
November 15, 2010 ~ Tonya M. Peck and Alex M. Dunne presented "iPads & Organizations: Using Design Methods as OD Interventions".
October 18, 2010 - Ric Oslin presented "Aligning Strategy, Culture, and Leadership".
September 20, 2010 - An Evening With Dan Oestreich! Cracking the Code of Defensive Leadership: Strategies for Self, Others, and Organizations. This session focused on how to overcome defensiveness as external and internal practioners in working with leaders and ourselves. Dan Oestreich offered conversation and joint exploration, bringing an easy-to-use model that highlighted both how we display our defensiveness and what we become most defensive about.
June 21, 2010 - Creating Gracious Space: A Practice for Leadership Consultants with Pat Hughes - Gracious Space is a simple yet powerful approach to working better together. Defined as “a spirit and setting where we invite the stranger and learn in public,” Gracious Space sets the tone for honest and vigorous exchange, deep listening and creativity around challenging issues.
May 17, 2010 - The Heart of Consulting: the practice of bringing who we are to what we do ~ An Evening of Exploration with Michael Lindfield
April 19, 2010 - Experience the Wisdom Circle Process. Join PNODN and guest presenter Rose Singer as we explore how to use Wisdom Circles in organizations to go beyond superficial problem solving..
March 15, 2010 - Open Your System For Collaboration: How is social media changing organizational life and behavior? Join PNODN and guest presenter Lucy Garrick as we explore this fascinating, current topic.
February 22, 2010 - Collaborative Conversations ~ In this session, we invite you to bring in real work/client situations and challenges and engage in a collaborative consultation with peers and colleagues in an open space format.
January 11 2010 - Sam Magill joins PNODN to discuss "Raising the quality of our consulting by becoming more fully human and more attentive to the complex relationships at play in any consulting project.”
December 14, 2009 - Culture and Identity
November 16, 2009 - Communities of Practice
October 19, 2009 - Join us at the OD Net Conference at the Sheraton
September 21, 2009 - Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results
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