Sponsor Sessions
Back by popular demand, OD Network Conference Sponsors have developed outstanding educational sessions that add significant depth and perspective to this year's event. You'll have the opportunity to grab a box lunch and attend enlightening workshops hosted by leading partners in the field of organization development!
Show your support for the organizations that support OD and Conference 2009 while learning about the many approaches, philosophies and tools available to help you maximize your success!
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Delivering Leadership ExcellenceSM in a Box
Jeremy S. Lurey, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Plus Delta Consulting, LLC.
Ken Pederson, Ph.D., Chief Learning Officer of ThinkWise, Inc.
Today's economy requires leaders to have a new and expanded skill set. Obtaining these new skills can be costly and time-consuming, but not with ThinkBox – a cost-effective tool that delivers Leadership ExcellenceSM to your organization.
In this session, you will review several best practices for leadership development; learn about ThinkBox, a powerful on-demand leadership development tool; and discuss real-life client successes and determine how to implement a Leadership ExcellenceSM program in your organization.
Managing Change in an Unpredictable and Rapidly Changing Environment
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Bill Baetz, Ph.D., is a Senior Director for The Group for Organizational Effectiveness (gOE). Over the last 15 years, gOE has helped over 250 organizations to build internal OD consulting skills, HR Business Partner capabilities, and more strategic HR functions.
A rapidly changing competitive landscape and global marketplace has accelerated the pace of change in organizations. Traditionally, change agents and leaders have taken a structured or planned approach toward managing change. The structured approach has great merit, but the unpredictable environment has made it more difficult in many cases to fully plan for change. This session will describe an emergent approach to change, and will explore how change initiatives can often be strengthened by incorporating both planned and adaptive activities.
Navigating Cultural Differences in OD Consulting
Dr. John P. Conbere
Dr. Alla Heorhiadi
More and more OD consultants would either like to or already are doing consulting abroad and in different cultural settings. Sometimes services they provide to clients are not successful due to cultural differences in attitudes to change, human resources and even thinking patterns. From doing OD work in Europe over the past six years and supervising doctoral students' OD consulting in Ukraine, we have collected rich data on how to navigate differences when practicing OD in different cultures. The goals of this session are to share tips and stories, as well as to engage in a dialogue on how other consultants can reconcile cultural differences.
OD History 101
Therese Yaeger, PhD
Peter Sorensen, PhD
OD legends are concerned that much of OD's history has been lost, and that newcomers to OD often miss important aspects of OD's history. What is, and what should be taught in introductory OD courses? Who are the legends, where did this field come from, and where is it going? Join us as we share thoughts from OD experts.
Senior Internal Consulting University: Accelerating the Impact and Capability of your OD Function
Eric Hansen & Ron Carucci
Most OD units struggle to get traction making significant differences in enterprise performance. Relegated to discrete tasks such as succession, team building, or organization design, the ability to influence C-suite level decisions can be evasive. In this highly informative session, you will see how we combine the three core capabilities for high-performing OD units - 1) becoming a Trusted Advisor to Senior Executives, 2) becoming a seasoned architect of system change, and 3) having a sophisticated consultation method that gets traction with senior internal clients - to accelerate the impact of internal consulting resources. You will learn about a dynamic, exciting customized program that tailors OD capability development to the specific context of change in which the OD unit is performing. Session host Passages Consulting is a nationally acclaimed premier provider of strategic change consultation to executives leading enterprise transformations, and the session will be hosted by some of the field's top veteran practitioners.
Systems Tools for Leveraging the Whole Team Rather than Just the “Hypo Members”
Marita Fridjhon, MSW, CPCC, PCC
Faith Fuller Ph.D., CPCC
Co-founders of the Center for Right Relationship (CRR Global)
At a time when the terms “Team Coaching” and “Team Leadership” are widely used, the need for new leadership skills are more critical than ever. Join us for a conversation showcasing cutting edge tools for working directly with the “system” rather than getting distracted by the individual team players.
The Power of Data –How you can use quantitative data to align Organization Development interventions, maximize their impact, and drive successful system-wide change
Linda Sharkey, Ph.D., Distinguished Fellow Marshall Goldsmith School of Business Global Leadership Development Center, Former VP of HP and GE
By using an Integrated Diagnostic System to quantify traditionally qualitative and abstract concepts such as culture, synergy, and leadership impact, consultants can help organizations benchmark their current level of effectiveness, envision an ideal, and demonstrate progress over time in achieving that ideal. Dr. Linda Sharkey will share her experiences measuring these critical invisible forces to drive and facilitate M&A integration, succession planning, leadership development, and strategy implementation.
The Ten Common Mistakes when Implementing Change
Linda Ackerman Anderson
Have your changes not succeeded due to resistance, lack of capacity, or poor communication? Are the leaders of your change effort also the roadblock in your change effort? If so, join us for this spotlight session where we will be using 30 years of active research to discuss the ten common mistakes experienced when a transformational change is initiated, why they occur, and strategies to avoid them within your organization.
Using Prescriptive-Based Coaching to Improve Leadership Development
John Correll, Vice President Organizational Development, Vangent
Using validated assessments to prescribe coaching and development interventions can help leaders close skill gaps more quickly while maximizing the integrity of the development planning process. In this Sponsor Spotlight session you will learn:
- About the importance of measuring the right mix of leadership attributes in order to devise an effective coaching plan
- How to maximize succession planning effectiveness
- How to optimize coaching and consulting wraparound services
A Passion for OD: Unleashing Our Calling for Doing Great Work in the World
Steve Cady, Margaret Casarez, Stephanie Jo Gomez, Jeremy Lurey, Jason Wolf
Join other passionate professionals and ignite your calling, uncover more of your own strengths, rejuvenate your career journey, and gain practical applications for managing your personal practice as an internal or external consultant. Learn the Six Ways model based on over 15 years of research. Be more clear and committed to translating your talents into value-add interventions. Be energized by the innovative ways you can utilize new tools and concepts to create: desire - hope – belief – action.
Developing leaders in challenging times for competitive advantage tomorrow
John Bennett, SVP Talent Solutions Director Christi Olson, SVP Talent Solutions Director
Whether your organization is currently thinking about or already investing in leadership development initiatives, our Spotlight Session will provide you with some valuable insights in your decision-making process.
Understand how the current economic environment is impacting leaders and the workforce. Based on recent research, learn about the emerging leadership practices and how to align your organization’s leadership program with its organizational and business strategies. Explore how you as an OD professional can make an impact by taking action that sustains emerging leadership practices.
Exploring Positive Deviance
Lisa Kimball, President Plexus Institute
In contrast to most “best practice” approaches, Positive Deviance (PD) is a change methodology based on the insight that knowledge alone doesn't change behavior. The primary hypothesis of PD is that within any organization, there are people whose unique behaviors allow them to find solutions to problems that most in the organization find impossible to solve. Come learn how Plexus Institute has been applying PD in change projects in hospitals and schools.
Gestalt Coaching & Resistance
Faculty and Program Chairs: Herb Stevenson, MA, CPC, CDP and Rick Maurer, MA, author of Beyond The Wall of Resistance, Why Don't You Want What I Want?, and Building Capacity for Change Sourcebook.
People enter coaching because they want something. Gestalt theory suggests that wants are accompanied by resistance. Coaches must know how to work with that dance between aspirations and fears. We will show you how our approach harnesses those forces in ways that energize and focus the client's work. And how this approach can help clients recognize more options for facing their challenges. This engaging and energy-infused session is ideal for professionals, change leaders, educators and consultants.
Also find out about our new Gestalt Professional Certified Coach (GPCC) 6-month program starting November 11-19, 2009 and our Becoming an Effective Organizational Intervener (BEI) 9-month program starting December 13-19, 2009.
Strategic Change and Organizational Evaluation: An Integrated Framework
Dr. Wendy Rowe is as Associate Professor in the School of Leadership Studies at Royal Roads University. She has extensive experience in program evaluation in both the public and private sector.
Integrating evaluation methods and OD processes (E-OD) into an organizational strategic change framework leverages the power of these two disciplines to help organizations achieve outcomes and to sustain continuous learning and development.
This session will describe the stages of the E-OD change model beginning with mobilizing commitment to change using visioning, planning and needs assessments through to using results within the organization and for all stakeholders groups to direct and sustain continued change and development.
Sunrise Seminar at High Noon: Using the Applied Behavioral Sciences in Transformational Change
Fred Nader, Executive Director, NTL Institute;
Katherine Farquhar, Director, AU/NTL and AU/NTL Alums & Students
The demand for the talents of skilled change agents continues to expand in this world of global transformation and organizational/governmental/market turbulence. Whether as managers, consultants, or professionals, OD-educated practitioners use a multi-disciplinary and multi-level approach to guiding organizations toward problem-solving, new structures, necessary visions. Our experiential workshop invites you on a brief journey to explore and understand how change agents apply the perspectives of behavioral sciences to two or three organizations facing major change.
The Dynamics of Appreciative Inquiry: Water Quality in China
Alumni of the MSOD program at Pepperdine University and Ann Feyerherm, Ph.D., Professor of Management, Pepperdine MSOD Program.
A multi-party conference was recently held for Chinese NGOs, universities, and businesses working on issues of water, in partnership with the MSOD program at Pepperdine University. This session will outline the appreciative inquiry methodology that was used, the joys of and learning about partnering across language/cultural differences, and what approaches can be used to address compelling social and environmental issues. Participants will learn more about appreciative inquiry, working in a network, and facilitation while working in another country.
Working on the Hyphen: The reflective Scholar-Practitioner
Barbara P. Mink, PhD, Professor, School of Human & Organizational Development
Many of us in the OD world do our best work “on the hyphen” …our practice challenges us to explore scholarly material … and our study and scholarship enriches our practice. In this session we will reflect on our various areas of practice and look at some theories and models from various disciplines that may inform and advance our practice.
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