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NEWSLETTER
April
2003
Message from the Coordinating Committee
April Programs
May and June
Programs
Programs Team
Dialogue
Group
Jobs Group
Other Announcements
A Message from the
Coordinating
Committee
“Members participate in and
contribute to the organization’s operation and
development.”
- ODLG
Vision Statement
In the spirit of the
member-driven nature of the Learning Group, we invite all members to
attend the first ever open Coordinating Committee meeting.
The meeting will address urgent
administrative and organizational issues, as well as proposals from
the membership.
This will be held April 7,
6:30 to
8:30 PM , in
Boston
. To RSVP, contact
Josh Burdett, webmaster@learninggroup.org
or Jim Murphy, programs@learninggroup.org.
You will receive an agenda and related information.
April
Program
Marketing Professional Services:
How to Shorten the Sales Cycle
When: April 30, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (6:00 to 6:15 is
networking)
Location:
Tufts Health Plan, 705 Mt.
Auburn Street ,
Watertown, 617-972-9400 (Please enter from
Arlington
Street.)
Public
Transportation: The
location is on the route of MBTA bus 71.
Parking: Available at
the location on Arlington
Street
Cost:
Free for members, $20 for non-members (food is included)
RSVP or
volunteer: programs@learninggroup.org
This meeting of the OD Learning Group promises to tread
where many OD professionals rarely go—marketing our
services.
Barbara Bix, founder and president
of BB Marketing Plus
, will challenge us to focus on connecting
to our most accessible clients. Barbara’s firm has developed the
Revenue Accelerator Methodology, and the firm’s client companies
have praised the results of using this
strategy.
We will use self-assessment tools to discover what leads
each of us to buy professional services (or make any large
purchases) and then translate that knowledge to uncover what each of
us has to offer our top prospects.
Takeways will include insight and skills
for growing your own practice, as well as an insider look at
strategies that all companies may need to embrace for their own
growth.
May and June Programs
We have tentatively
planned to make our May meeting a “sequel” to our special program in
October 2001 “OD Responds to the Crisis”. The situation that began
on
September 11, 2001 has now
become graver with the war in
Iraq
,
as well as the ongoing specter of terrorism. All organizations are
impacted by the continuing crisis, and of course we are all affected
as individuals. This meeting will help us see how our values and
practices can be promoted in a time of great stress.
For June, we have
tentatively scheduled a program on “Developing OD Skills”. Peter
Smith of Peter Smith Associates will lead this workshop session on
consulting techniques, building client relationships, and the role
of being a change agent.
Updates on Learning
Group programs appear at http://www.learninggroup.org/lg_future_meetings_schedule.htm.
Programs Team
The Programs Team meets on the first Tuesday of each month.
Meetings are open to all who are interested in our program activity.
For more information, see the Programs Team web page at http://www.learninggroup.org/programs.htm.
In addition, members can give input on what programs should
be presented via our “ballot” at http://www.learninggroup.org/programproposals.htm.
Do you have an idea for a program? Would you like to join a
program team? Write to programs@learninggroup.
Return of the Dialogue
Group
When: April 15, 6:30 PM to
8:30 PM
Location: Boston Public
Library, Copley Square,
700 Boylston Street
, Boston, Conference Room 6
RSVP:
programs@learninggroup.org
Dialogue is a method of communication. It can also be a management
tool, one of the most important in organizational development
practice
Dialogue may be defined by following continuum: Debate - Discussion -
Dialogue. Most of
us have participated in debates, some of them having started as
discussions. In Debate,
one concentrates on making one's position so that it is most likely
to be believed by the audience. Tricks and even lies are
part of the technique, and one listens to the other side only to
figure out how to demolish their
arguments.
Discussion is more neutral. In general, it is expected
that there will be various points of view expressed and that the
purpose of the discussion is to hear these and come to agreement.
How often does this happen, however?
Think of the various discussions you have held lately -
meetings, conversations, and so on. How frequently were
participants genuinely trying to discover one another’s
viewpoints? Did people
actually try to understand not just what others were saying but what
assumptions and experiences their statements were based on? When
decisions were made, were all factors were carefully considered so
that true consensus had been achieved (as opposed to one side
getting its way)?
Dialogue offers another way. It is based on the idea that
all members of the group participate as equals, that everyone makes
a conscious effort to understand others' viewpoint, and that
learning and sharing precede decision making and action
planning.
Like any practice or discipline, Dialogue takes conscious
effort and practice; it may seem unnatural at first, just as in
learning how to golf or how to dance. However, once a group has
mastered the art of Dialogue, it can find not only that
communication and decision making are better but also that the
resultant synergy makes for team learning and shared thinking. This experience is very
stimulating and rewarding in itself, over and above the specific
benefits that accrue to the
organization.
Dialogue is used by many corporations and organizations, and
there are organizations and consultants that promote this management
technique. The Learning Group has presented several programs on
Dialogue and for a long time maintained a special interest group
practicing Dialogue.
Now, based on follow up proposals made at our January 2002
program, “ The Power of One Person: A
Dialogue Session ,” we are launching
a new Dialogue Group. Our formative meeting will decide on goals and
practices. Come and experience the “ Magic of Dialogue
”.
Comeback of the Jobs
Group
We are very excited that the Jobs Group is coming back. Actually, it never quite
left: while no meetings have been held in a long time, it has
existed as an e-group.
Now we are hoping that it also can exist as a group where
people can actually meet, swap stories, information and leads, and
give each other support in their effort to land interesting jobs in
the OD field, whether they are new or seasoned OD
people.
The group is open to all members
of the OD Learning Group.
To begin with we would like to get a feel for how many are
interested in attending meetings and what their preferences are
regarding meeting locations, dates and times. Those who are interested can
send e-mail to programs@learninggroup.org
Other
Announcements
Advanced
OD Consulting Skills Workshop
This is a workshop for those who have an understanding of
organization development and who have been or are currently
consulting-either internally or externally. Registration is limited
to ten persons.
This workshop is designed to provide the experienced
consultant with the tools and direction to move your practice to a
new level. Participants will gain skills to engage clients in more
productive relationships that help them build sustainable capacity
for change and learning. In addition, they will learn how to choose
the right intervention, the role of being an instrument of change,
ways to build capacity for learning in the organization/work group,
methods of setting fees, marketing your expertise, and creating
balance, and how/when to maintain/terminate the client/consultant
relationship.
Session 1
June 6-8, 2003
Antioch New England Graduate
School
195 Commerce Way
Portsmouth, NH
Session 2
June 20-22, 2003
Antioch New England Graduate School
40 Avon Street
Keene, NH
Further information: 207-237-2188
or email psmith@tdstelme.net
Please include the following
information:
Name
Address
Telephone number
Email address
Session no. 1 or Session no. 2
Cost: $745, (includes all workshop handout
materials)
Please make payment to:
Peter Smith Associates
Organizational
& Management Consulting
L-128
5014 Twinbrook
Road
Carrabassett Valley, ME
04947
Coaching
for Transformation:
Three Day Workshop with Kate
Howell
This workshop is for people who
are engaged in the on-going personal and professional development
essential to creating enduring transformational experiences for
others. This includes new and experienced coaches, and leaders for
whom coaching is an integral part of their work.
Coaching for
transformation involves getting to the heart of what is true and
what really matters for the client. It requires a dedication to
being fully present, honest, and insightful. This kind of coaching
can produce sustainable and striking results because it helps to
accomplish both valued professional achievements and profound
personal growth.
In this workshop we will explore both the
art and the science of coaching. Topics will include
the disciplines of
contracting, initial discovery, implementation and results
evaluation;
principal tools and frameworks of transformational coaching;
development of the capacity to trust and utilize our own internal
signals, as well as signs from our clients to create powerful
coaching experiences
About the Workshop Facilitator:
Kate Howell, a partner of Highland Consulting and Leadership
Design Associates, has been a coach and consultant for seventeen
years. Kate coaches leaders and teams to achieve challenging
strategic initiatives while realizing breakthrough personal goals.
At the heart of her approach to coaching is her lifelong
devotion to helping people recognize the beauty, power and potential
in each of us, and to fostering leadership that builds sustainable,
excellent, and trusted institutions.
Kate founded and managed
Vantage Point, Inc. and previously worked with Masterful Coaching,
Innovation Associates, and London/Gale Associates. She has worked
nationally and internationally in a wide variety of industries in
both the private and non-profit sectors, including high technology,
telecommunications, manufacturing, insurance, health care and fair
trade.
When:
April 29, 30
and May 6, 2003 9:30-4:30
Location:
The Walker Center, Newton, MA
Cost:
$350
For registration information call 617-359-5017 or contact
ora@just-works.com
Ora Grodsky
Just-Works Consulting
617-924-1978
Greater Boston OD
Network
The next GBODN meeting is a
lecture arranged by Aaron Nurick as part
of the Leadership and Organizational Life series. For details,
visit http://ecampus.bentley.edu/dept/mg/management/lecture%20series%202003.pdf
Please note
that there is a registration fee for this program for all attendees,
including GBODN members.
Wed., April 9 - Monadnock Community hospital, Peterborough, NH,
Thurs., April 10 - Bentley College, Waltham,
MA
Larry Hirshhorn, Ph.D. - Passion as a Resource -
"Passion is an organizational resource that stimulates people to
work hard and steadily in the face of difficulties and
uncertainty. But organizations frequently have a hard time
integrating passion. The passionate person can be
single-minded to a fault, and often disrupts the normal working
processes which team members prefer. The passionate person
typically creates tension. How can organizations learn to draw
upon the passions of members while at the same time sustaining the
coherence of teams and groups?"
Please direct questions to
Aaron Nurick at ANurick@LNMTA.bentley.edu
May Workshop - "Transitioning into OD and Enhancing Current
Practice" with Bill Becker, consultant and author of How to OD ...
And Live to Tell About It, Saturday, May 10 at the Gestalt
International Study Center, Wellfleet.
This highly
interactive day of exploration has a dual, integrated focus.
It will bring people who are thinking about transitioning from other
careers to the practice of Organization Development (OD) together
with current OD Practitioners who are looking to enhance their
approaches to helping organizations improve their performance. All
participants will receive a copy of Bill's new
book.
To encourage
early registration, before Tuesday April, there is an early-bird fee
of $95 for members ($135 for non-members which includes 2003
membership). The regular fee is $125 for members ($165 for
non-members which includes 2003
membership).
The Organization Design
Forum
The Organization
Design annual conference is April 27-30, 2003 in Salem, with Ed
Lawler, Distinguished Professor of Management and Organization in
the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern
California, is the keynote speaker. For details, see http://www.organizationdesignforum.org/.
Institute of Management
Consultants
Friday, April
4, 2003
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Breakfast
Brainstorm
Serving the
Owner-Managed Business
Hampton Inn, Sturbridge,
MA
with Harvy Simkovits, CMC, and President, Business
Wisdom
Please Note:
Rescheduled from March 21st
Monday, April 7,
2003
7:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Breakfast Brainstorm
Network
and Referral Building
Bickford's Restaurant, Manchester,
NH
Monday, April
14, 2003
7:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.
Breakfast
Brainstorm
Consulting Ethics: A Road Map for
Practitioners
with David
Gleason, Managing Consultant of IT Quality Solutions
Gleason will discuss how a consultant should sell services
and the practical ethics of making promises around outcomes. Group
discussion will focus on how to truly collaborate with a client when
we are supposed to be the "expert," and when it is right to say, "I
don't know," among other topics.
Rebecca's Café,
Burlington, MA
Friday, April 25, 2003
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
"Master Class" for
Consultants
How to Increase Your Sales Right Now —
And Have
Your Best Year Ever!
with Alan Weiss, Ph.D., CMC, and President
of Summit Consulting Group
Doubletree Guest Suites, Waltham,
MA
Northeast England Human Resources
Association
April 3, 2003
Route 495 Breakfast
HR as a True Business Partner
7:30AM - 9:30AM
April 9, 2003
Creative Work Options Network (CWON) Breakfast
The Flexible Organization: Novelty or Necessity?
8:00AM -
11:00AM
April 10, 2003
Diversity Conference
From Diversity Awareness to Cultural Competency: Strategies
and Tools You Can Use
7:30AM - 11:45AM
April 15, 2003
Rhode Island Breakfast
Measuring for Success: How Three Organizations Use Metrics
to Improve Performance
7:30AM - 9:30AM
April 23, 2003
Professional Development - April 23
Compensation Fundamentals
An Accredited WorldatWork seminar
8:30AM - 4:00PM
April 24, 2003
Professional Development - April 24
Benefit Fundamentals
An Accredited WorldatWork seminar
8:30AM - 4:00PM
April 30, 2003
Boston Breakfast
Building Coaching Capability in
Your Organization
7:30AM - 9:30AM
Human Resource Management Group
Leveraging Individual and Organizational Learning in a
Rapidly Changing Environment – May 8
Steven Kerr, Chief Learning
Officer, Goldman Sachs
Jim Shanely, SVP
Leadership Development, Bank of America (tentative date)
For more information, go to
http://www.hrmg.org/programs/index.html#plan
Boston Facilitators
Roundtable
Graphic Facilitation
Date:
Friday, April 4, 2003
Time:
9:00
am - 2:30 pm
Presenter:
Maya Townsend and Nancy Mardas
Session
Description
Want to energize long meetings, record fast-paced
discussions, or access that sometimes dormant right side of the
brain? Graphic facilitation is a way to do that through use of
visuals and images. You don't need to be an artist to be a graphic
facilitator. Come to this engaging, interactive workshop to add
graphic facilitation to your toolkit.
For
more information, go to http://www.bostonfacilitators.org/
Gestalt International Study
Center
"The
Dynamics of Effective Coaching" Workshop: May 2-4, 2003
Couple, Family and Other Small Systems Training Program
(second week) has been rescheduled for September 18 – 25,
2003
For more information, go to http://www.gisc.org/.
International Society for Performance
Improvement
The 41st Annual International
Performance Improvement Conference and Exposition on Lessons in
Leadership will be held April 10 to April 15 at the Sheraton
Boston.
For more information, go to
http://www.ispi.org/ac2003/.
Storytelling-in-Organizations
A small group - including
consultants, professional storytellers,
authors/researchers/educators, and curious businesspeople - has
started to meet monthly with the aim of understanding the mechanisms
for stories' power within organizations, determining strategies for
building and marketing story-based offers, and using stories to
build community among ourselves.
The group meets in Cambridge
on a Monday evening - usually the fourth of the month. For
more information, contact Yusi Wang at
617-872-6461 or yusi@alumni.princeton.edu.
A Play Related to Diversity at the Lyric
West Theatre Company
The
Meeting by Jeff
Stetson
This eloquent play depicts the supposed meeting of two of
the most important men of modern times: Malcolm X and Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. The action takes place in a suite, high up in the
Harlem Hotel, where Malcolm X and his bodyguard, Rashad, rest before Malcolm's fateful appearance
at the Audubon Ballroom. This play is symbolic not only of their
clash of wills, but also of the conflicting beliefs which both honor
in the other but will not accept for themselves. The debate is not
only about the opposing points of view of these two men, but
reflects the approach to conflict in the world today. After each performance there will
be a question and answer period with the actors, director and
producers.
Contact: Eda Roth: 781-235-0488, or, email: EdaRoth@aol.com
Opening/Press:
Friday April 11, 2003 @ 8:00pm
Closing: Sunday April 27, 2003 @
2:00pm
Performance times: Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 8:00pm:
April 11, 12
April 16, 17, 18, 19 April 23, 24, 25, 26
Sundays @ 2:00pm:
April 13, 20, 27
Working Against Racism
Where to Stick the
Pin: The Search for Social Change Strategy in today’s Work Against
Racism
with Nora Lester Murad
Saturday, April 12,
2003, 10 AM to 4 PM. Women’s Theological Institute, 140 Clarendon
Street, Room 501, Boston
"Working against
racism" is the practice of social change on the particular social
problem of racism. It includes a multiplicity of forms of action,
including protest against globalization, development
of multicultural curricula for children, training of corporate
employees to recognize their biases, service projects, and
performance of art works examining identity or
oppression.
In this
participatory workshop, people who work against racism in all
settings and using all tactics are invited to come together to
explore social change strategy. Using metaphor, reflections on
history, social change theories, short readings, and other fun
activities, we will work in small and large groups to articulate our
own understandings of how social change happens and better
understand alternative views. The purpose is not to convince one
another or to come to consensus, but to understand why there is such
a multiplicity of views and how we all can leverage that
multiplicity to more effectively build movements and influence
social change.
Nora Lester Muradhas been a community organizer, corporate
diversity consultant, and intercultural facilitator. She
currently teaches cross-cultural understanding at Bentley College
and serves on the board of WTC. She brought her eclectic training in
"intercultural relations," "anti-racism," and "managing diversity"
to a year-long research project about the social change theories
implicit in today's work against racism for which she interviewed 19
Boston-area practitioners.
Sliding Scale for
WTC members: $25 to $100
Non-members: $100 (Credit cards
accepted)
To register, call or email Women’s Theological Center
at 617-536-8782 or meck@theworld.com.
Marketing Right-brain services to
Left-Brain Organizations
Boston, Saturday, May 31, 2003,
9:00-5:30
This workshop, an all-new program by Seth Kahan, will be highly interactive, focusing on
the skills necessary to do business effectively with
organizations. It is designed for consultants and speakers who
want to market "Right-Brained" services such as storytelling,
mindfulness in the workplace, gender and racial equity programs,
community development, and dialogue. Participants will review
their marketing materials and develop a customized plan including
target clients and proposed fees.
Seth Kahan is an organizational storyteller and a
"Center Visionary" at the Center for Association Leadership in
Washington, DC. Visit his web site at www.sethkahan.com. To register for the May
31 event, contact Yusi Wang at
617-872-6461 or yusi@alumni.princeton.edu.
Seacoast
WIND
“What is Coaching? and How Can I Use it to Find Satisfying
Work?” on Monday, April
14, from 8:30/9:00 -
12:00 PM at Franklin Pierce College, Pease International Tradeport, 73 Corporate Drive, Portsmouth,
NH. This site is easily
accessed from 95 and the Spaulding Turnpike. To pre-register
contact: Coach, Neil
Wilson at (866) 794-5766 or e-mail neil@career-coach.net
<mailto:neil@career-coach.net.
The cost to attend is $15 for new WIND members and $10 for
returning WIND members to attend. Rob Kanzer, President of The
Cambridge Coaching Collaborative, will give a quick introduction
into the distinction of how we perceive the world and then translate
what we see through our meaning-making filters. In the Five Steps
introduction you will get a chance to learn how we create our own
emotional response to life based on our needs. You may be surprised at how
easily you discover the barriers to your own success. Steps four and
five identify present desires in “positive action terms” so you can
declare clearly “who does what by when” for me to get what I want
(the job, the arrangement, the time, the project, the health -
whatever it is). A three-hour workshop offered one week later (April
21) will deepen and actually help us “embody” the theory learned in
this session.
39th National Group Relations
Conference
June 7-14, 2003, Chicago, IL.
Leadership, Followership and
Organizational Integrity: An experiential conference to explore
interdependence and responsibility in organizations and
society.
For
more information, go to http://www.uvm.edu/~mkessler/akrice/
The
Shambala Institute for Authentic
Leadership
Third Annual Summer Program. June 14-21, 2003, Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
For more information, go to http://www.shambhalainstitute.org/2003_upcoming/2003_modules.html
International
Association of Facilitators
The Art & Mastery of Facilitation: Building Community in
Organizations, June 19-22, 2003,Ottawa, Ontario
For more information, go to, http://www.iaf-world.org/iafconferences.htm
The
Portsmouth Coaching Collaborative
Getting Paid To Be Yourself-- a workshop based on the idea
that somewhere in the world there are people waiting to find out
about you so they can advance to the next level, that somewhere in
the world there are people for whom yours is the perfect set of life
experiences to help them grow.
And this workshop is designed to connect you to who you
really are so that you can more fully give that to your clients and
potential clients. Coaches Alex Adrian and Steve Burison will present the 8th PCC meeting to be
held on Thursday, April 10, 2003, from 6-9 p.m. at the Rusty Hammer
Restaurant, 49 Pleasant St.,Portsmouth,
NH. The cost is free
for Portsmouth Coaching Collaborative Members, and $15 for
Non-Members. The
general public is welcome to attend.
Food and beverages can be ordered from the bar. Advance
registration greatly appreciated (walk-ins ok).
Contact Steve Burison
(508)-878-1870 or sburison@earthlink.net
or Rob Kanzer at (207) 439-8911 or pcc@robkanzer.com. The Portsmouth Coaching
Collaborative is a Not for Profit Learning Group that serves to
cultivate and support coaching development, services, and learning
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