Pre- and Post-Conference Workshops
Pre-conference, Saturday, October 16
Full Day Programs 9:00 am- 4:00 pm
SAT01 - A Dynamic Approach to Use of Self: Leveraging Ourselves as Instruments of Change
Matt Auron - DaVita, Inc.
David Jamieson - Jamieson Consulting Group, Inc.
David Shechtman - Tru Progress Consulting
Ann Caton - Potomac Group, LLC
Self-as-instrument is one of the most critical but least understood aspects of OD consultation. As OD practitioners, we are the primary instrument for sensing (seeing what is), meaning-making (knowing) and action-taking (doing) in human system settings. This workshop aims to build on the OD Network Conference 2009 concurrent session with a day-long workshop expanding on a new comprehensive model of Use of Self in OD. Using a large body of self-as- instrument theory, this workshop will be cognitively informative as well as experientially powerful. Participants will have the opportunity to better understand the multitude of ways use of self factors into OD work, assess and explore with others their own levels of consciousness and execution, and make additional plans for the development of mastery.
SAT02 - A Journey into Power, Politics, and Influence for OD Practitioners
Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge - Quality-Equality Organisation Development Consultancy Services, Ltd.
Robert J. Marshak - AU/NTL MSOD Program, School of Public Affairs, American Uniersity
Many OD practitioners are not as politically savvy as they might be in their consulting work, often because they are ambivalent about the deliberate and consistent use of power within their role. This session will clarify why using power, politics, and influence is required in the work world of OD practitioners. It will help participants identify and reflect on their beliefs about power and OD consulting; examine their own sources of power and available power strategies as a change agent; consider heartfelt and ethical ways of using power; and focus on the highest form of power—personal referent power—as a core aspect of use of self as an instrument of change.
SAT03 - Six Conversations that Matter: Building Abundant Organizations
Bill Brewer - Designed Learning
Designed by Peter Block, this highly interactive session enables participants to begin to change the conversations in their organization, allowing them to create a future distinct from the past. To do this, we must be willing to shift our thinking 180 degrees, from exploring the relationship between cause and effect, to realizing that we create our own world. The Six Conversations begin to shift multiple layers of culture by allowing each individual to choose to commit to the success of the organization without guarantees. In doing so, organizations of high engagement are created by the members, citizens, and others. This workshop will attempt to create in the present space the possibility for future spaces, by helping participants learn personally how powerful questions can transform organizations and communities, how these conversations encourage people to commit to the success of an initiative without a promise of return, and how leaders can use these Six Conversations.
SAT04 - The Change within Transformative Change
Sharon Benjamin - Alchemy
Michael Arena - Queens University
Transformative change in communities and organizations is possible ONLY when individuals’ personal changes occur in aggregate, either simultaneously or sequentially. And so, behind every transformative change, there is always notable individual change. However, when hyperconnectivity also increases, we radically alter the ground rules and patterns governing both individual transformation and group change. This session offers participants an opportunity to rediscover, refresh, and re-contextualize their existing abilities, and to acquire new personal insights to effect elegant, transformative change. A discussion of radically changing paradigms sets the stage for considering the implications of hyperconnectivity in organizations. Building on this foundation, participants will be asked to bring a presenting challenge to address during this session. The bulk of the session will be spent on individual consideration of how to unleash individual, local change with intended global implications.
SAT05 - The Core of Effective Contracting: Navigating the Initial, Complex Dynamics that Will Determine Our Success
Peter Norlin, OD Network
Judy Vogel, Vogel/Glaser & Associates, Inc.
We know that the act of contracting is a highly-charged exchange that requires us to balance and control a number of complex personal and interpersonal dynamics, and this workshop introduces an integrated model that enables us to understand and manage this relational “field of engagement” with greater precision. With this framework, we’ll consider first what inner work we must do as OD professionals to prepare ourselves for successful contracting conversations, and then how we might use ourselves strategically in the moment to create a trustworthy, mutually-satisfying contract. Along the way we’ll identify the implicit expectations that surround the “business of help,” and discuss why it’s so important that we be able to articulate our own, professional “theory-of-practice.” We’ll end by offering some practical guidance about planning for contracting success, and a case study as a practice field for integrating our collective learning. If you’d appreciate more clarity and confidence during your contracting conversations, join us!
Half Day Programs
1:00-4:00 pm
SAT06- Innovative InterChange: The Power Behind the Power of Your OD Program
Dr. Charlie Palmgren - Innovative InterChange Associates
Kathy Hollingsworth - Innovative InterChange Associates
Heather Martin - Innovative InterChange Associates
To survive in a rapidly changing, globalizing market, organizations must learn and adapt just as rapidly. Our workshop introduces Innovative InterChange, a process that helps organizations and OD professionals keep up. This mental meta-model is inherent in most existing OD models—we just bring it to the surface. In line with current neuroscience and learning theories, iiChange allows leaders, consultants, mentors, coaches, and trainers to develop and sustain more comprehensive, creative ways of using their own skills and strategies. Participants will learn the most effective ways to initiate, implement, and sustain collaboration and change, while reducing polarization and destructive interaction.
SAT07- The Cosmopolitan Practitioner
June Delano - Pivotal
Leng Lim - Pivotal
Bruce McFee - Pivotal
Cosmopolitanism is the belief that all human beings belong to a single community. This session explores what it means to be a cosmopolitan OD practitioner--someone with the knowledge, skills, and self-awareness to engage and work with people from all over the world. Participants will explore the emerging literature on cosmopolitanism, test their own attitudes and limits, and work together to define what it means to be a "consultant of the world." This workshop will be most powerful for practitioners with experience working across global cultures.
SAT08- Awakening the Dreamer: Generating Hope and Action for Environment, Spirit and Justice at Humanity's Crossroads
Anita Sanchez - Sanchez Tennis & Associates, Pachamama Alliance
Kit Tennis - Sanchez Tennis & Associates, Pachamama Alliance
Our world is at a crossroads where our societal vision, organizational systems, lifestyles, daily personal choices, and even our physical survival are being called into question. It is an intersection where environmental sustainability, healthy human spirit, and social justice meet in powerful interconnection. At this crucial moment, OD practitioners have extraordinary potential to facilitate the changes our society so badly needs in order to reach our individual and collective potential. This workshop presents a highly sophisticated group experience that is reaching tens of thousands of people around the world, generating enormous hope and inspiration to transform our world in our lifetimes. Join us in building community that is sustainable, fulfilling and socially just! Please take a moment to watch this 4-minute preview: http://awakeningthedreamer.org/content/view/115/135/
Post-conference Full day Workshop
Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1:00 - 4:00 PM and Thursday, Oct. 21, 9:00 am - Noon
WTH01- How Do YOU Show Up When Conflict Begins? The Three C’s of Conflict Intervention
Chuck Phillips - Sapience Organizational Consulting Group
Janice Williams - Janice A. Williams Associates
Organizations are more complex than ever. Technology has increased people’s capacity to transfer information rapidly across cubes, departments, sites, and countries (i.e., "traditional boundaries"), and easy access and increasing use of technology has also eroded employees’ interpersonal skills in communication, problem solving, and conflict resolution. Unfortunately, organizations and individuals seem to be both more conflict averse and also more prone to conflict, as groups, teams, and organizational units struggle for influence and authority, over- or under-manage information, compete for resources, and push for best solutions. Communication and conflict management are still capacities that are essential for organizational success, and they require competent and increasingly insightful deployment. In fact, conflict mediation and intervention require our most unfettered presence and our greatest skill. Come learn how manage conflict resolution with competence, confidence, and congruence.
Post-conference Half-day workshops
Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1:00 - 4:00 pm
WED01- High Impact Coaching for Organizational Change
John Bennett - Queens University of Charlotte, McColl School of Business
Mary Wayne Bush - Pepperdine University
Executive coaching has been shown to promote, facilitate, and accelerate change at both the organizational and personal levels. This interactive session will equip consultants, HR/OD professionals and organizational change agents with the concepts and skills necessary in order to use powerful coaching questions in change interventions. The workshop facilitators will present a model of organization change, as well as a coaching model that can be used in change interventions. Guided applications and discussions will help participants explore develop powerful questions for all phases of organization change. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and practice both models, as well as tailor questions to their individual change interventions. During this workshop, participants will develop a strategy and action plan to identify powerful questions that they can use in an actual organization change initiative.
WED02- Leading Consciously: Moving From Self-Change to Initiating Organizational Change
Jean Latting - Leading Consciously
“Be the change you want to see,” is a frequently quoted mantra. But how do we manage to uphold the OD profession’s ethical values of respect and inclusion, collaboration, authenticity, self-awareness, and empowerment day in and day out, if we feel emotionally depleted or if others’ behaviors are toxic in our eyes? And if we succeed in maintaining that commitment, how do we then build organizational support for the change we want to see? This workshop will address this issue straight-on, illustrating how a strategy of leading consciously may help achieve personal balance and clarity in these complicated, multi-dimensional situations. Using case studies and practice exercises, participants will learn a six-element, evidence-based framework for moving from self-change to initiating successful organizational change, based on the 10 years of research conducted by Jean Latting and Jean Ramsey, and showcased in their recently-published book, Reframing Change.
WED03- Navigating OD Career Options: Are You an Innie or an Outie?
Beverly Casey - Performance impact LLC
Jackie Alcalde Marr - Oracle Corporation and Evolutions Consulting
Kathryn Gaines, Ph.D. - Leading Pace, LLC
Rita Sever - Supervision Matters
Are you an independent practitioner considering a job “on the inside” with an organization? Or maybe you are an internal consultant striking out on your own. Possibly you are thinking about some creative blend of both roles. As the job market and the economy continue to shift, let's explore together the different realms of internal and external OD consulting. This workshop will take participants through a three-part process to examine the real world of internal and external consulting; to consider choices to craft the best fit for your current path; and to plan the next steps to help you get what you want. The workshop is designed to encourage sharing among consultants of all kinds, and to engage them in reflection, dialogue, and visioning. This interactive process is grounded in the work of OD scholars (e.g., Bellman; Block; Schein), will be facilitated by OD practitioners with a range of experiences, and is aimed at identifying options for action.