Sponsor Spotlight Sessions
This year you’ll have an outstanding opportunity to attend these educational sessions hosted by leading partners in the field of organization development! Jumpstart your morning by participating in a Spotlight Session during breakfast on Monday, October 22, 7:30-8:30 a.m., or grab a quick lunch and join a lunchtime Spotlight Session on Tuesday, October 23, 12:45-1:45pm! Show your support for the organizations that support OD and Conference 2007—while learning about the many tools available to help you maximize your success!
Ready to be a 21st Century OD Practitioner? , AU/NTL Program, American University
Exploring Alignment Through Discussion , Applied Learning Labs, Inc.
How Strategic Communications Helps Manage the People Side of Change , Booz Allen Hamilton
Blend Mastery: The Key to Engaging Whole Systems, Bowling Green State University
How Constellation Energy Builds Change Capability, Constellation Energy
Facilitating Change in a Flatter World, Fielding Graduate University
The Fix That Fits: What Works, When, and Why , HSD Institute
Simulating Change , Implementation Institute
Bethel Comes to Baltimore—NTL’s Sunrise Seminars, NTL Institute
Exploring the Unconscious Preference for Structure and Leadership, Pepperdine University: GSBM
Motivating and Developing Employees Using Objective Assessments, SHL
Innovative Leadership from Seeing David in the Stone, Seeing David in the Stone, Inc.
So Much to Do, So Little Time: Ensuring OD Capabilities Meet Company Needs, The Group for Organizational Effectiveness (gOE), Inc.
Using Web 2.0 Tools to Foster Mass Collaboration for Higher Organizational Performance, The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.
Ready to be a 21st Century OD Practitioner?
AU/NTL Program, American University
AU/NTL MSOD Instructors and Graduates
The challenges facing clients and OD practitioners have changed dramatically in the 30 years since the pioneering MSOD programs were launched. What is new, and what remains the same, in educating well-prepared, forward-thinking OD practitioners? Come prepared to engage in this experiential workshop where you work with OD scholars and practitioners to examine the field's priorities and professional development models.
Exploring Alignment Through Discussion
Applied Learning Labs, Inc.
"I've worked here for 30 years and never understood all that we do until now." Create organizational alignment and strategic communication that is engaging and clear to employees. Allow leaders to apply their experience and understanding to marketplace realities and encourage meaningful conversation to allow employees to draw their own conclusions. Put your creative hat on and experience how large companies use visual metaphors for strategy implementation and organizational alignment.
How Strategic Communications Helps Manage the People Side of Change
Booz Allen Hamilton
How do you engage stakeholders through change? What strategic communications strategy and tactics do you incorporate? Do your stakeholders understand where your organization is headed? Learn how strategic communications can lead your organization through a successful change initiative. Drawing from best practices applied and lessons learned in the recent change initiative with Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority, the second largest transit system in the United States, we will demonstrate how to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy that focuses on communicating the impending changes to key internal stakeholders.
Blend Mastery: The Key to Engaging Whole Systems
Bowling Green State University
Are you guiding, facilitating, or leading a major change? What methods do you choose? Are you looking for the most effective ways to mix and match the latest techniques? How can you bring your most confident and powerful self to each situation? Get an inside glimpse into the heart and soul of the work. Learn how masters nimbly guide large-scale change efforts and develop your competence as a change master.
How Constellation Energy Builds Change Capability
Constellation Energy
Constellation Energy is an integrated, competitive energy company headquartered in
Facilitating Change in a Flatter World
Fielding Graduate University
Candido Trujillo, Ph.D., Director, Organization Management and Development Master’s Program
A flatter world, with its instantaneous and diverse communication, brings greater organizational complexity than existed with traditional boundaries of time, place, and culture. Successful change efforts in this new environment rely on your ability to address four fundamental challenges: 1) navigate in a virtual time-space continuum; 2) understand the nuances of cultural and group dynamics; 3) apply the learning of organizational leadership; and 4) creatively design and assess your interventions. This session presents an educational model that gives you the content and process dimensions necessary for this work.
The Fix That Fits: What Works, When, and Why
HSD Institute
No OD solution works all the time. What works is the fix that fits, but how do we anticipate a good fit? In the past, skills, intuition, and customers’ expectations made the choice for us. Today, human systems dynamics gives us innovative ways to find a fix that fits the client’s situation. In this session, you’ll learn to use a simple, complexity-based tool to assess traditional OD interventions and select (or create) solutions to meet clients’ needs.
Simulating Change
Implementation Institute
Lisa Zweber, Executive Director & Terry Smith, Charter Member
OD practitioners recognize the importance of developing change management skills and expertise. Understanding how to mobilize behavior change in an organization can be the difference between successful client engagements and those that miss the mark. Come learn a systematic approach, developed by the Implementation Institute, to managing large-scale change. Learn about the tools and templates and see firsthand a computer-based business simulation that allows individuals to see the impact of actions they take to manage change as they work through a representative change scenario.
Bethel Comes to Baltimore—NTL’s Sunrise Seminars
NTL Institute
Early-morning “Sunrise Seminars” are usually offered throughout the summer as part of NTL’s long tradition in Bethel. In an informal setting, seminar leaders cover a broad range of topics. They may discuss current management theories, guide a meditation, report on cutting-edge human relations research, explore body movement, offer professional tips and techniques, or lead a sing-a-long. Join us during this morning session to get a taste of what NTL has to offer!
Exploring the Unconscious Preference for Structure and Leadership
Pepperdine University: GSBM
Ann Feyerherm. Ph.D., Director of MSOD Program; Chair, Organization Theory and Management Discipline; Associate Professor of Organization and Management
A powerful diagnostic model is experienced which combines structure, culture, and leadership in a unique way which connects participants to their deeply held, and often unconscious, belief systems. This model is taught in the MSOD program and exemplifies the blend of "self as instrument," systems thinking, and strategic action which is Pepperdine's hallmark. Walk away with insights that will increase your own personal productivity and diagnostic abilities.
Motivating and Developing Employees Using Objective Assessments
SHL
Objective assessment is a powerful tool in motivating and developing employees. By gaining insights into employees’ abilities, motivational drivers, and preferred work-styles, your organization will be better equipped to build development and succession plans that are customized and successful. Keep your employees motivated by more effectively matching them with jobs in the hiring process and positioning them for the right next steps throughout their careers. Assess leadership capabilities company-wide to build strong succession plans.
Innovative Leadership from Seeing David in the Stone
Seeing David in the Stone, Inc.
Jim Swartz, author of Seeing David in the Stone
This dynamic session reveals how innovative leaders guide their organizations to success in a brutal global marketplace. How? By differentiating their organizations to position them for opportunity, by using powerful learning processes to master their fields and markets, by co-creating with people to identify and seize those high-leverage opportunities, and by developing a sustained high-improvement culture. Finally, these leaders implement so as to greatly increase their organization’s value/cost proposition.
So Much to Do, So Little Time: Ensuring OD Capabilities Meet Company Needs
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The Group for Organizational Effectiveness (gOE), Inc.
Scott Tannenbaum, Ph.D., President
Most organizations face a steady stream of OD needs related to change, team, talent, structure, process, and performance issues. Yet few employ enough OD specialists to meet all those needs. This session examines ways organizations are responding to this gap. It describes how companies are maximizing the contribution of their OD experts and developing OD capabilities throughout HR and the line. It highlights several common challenges and success factors for building OD capabilities and “making it work.”
Using Web 2.0 Tools to Foster Mass Collaboration for Higher Organizational Performance
The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.
Corey Jamison, President
Through virtual worlds and other emerging social media, such as wikis and blogs, organizations are creating macro-communities to drive a new 21st century business model. Organizations will need to leverage the operational benefits enabled by mass collaboration, global co-creation of knowledge and innovative thinking and diverse community problem-solving. We at KJCG are examining how Web 2.0 tools are creating new space to dialogue as well as how they are rapidly moving the work on inclusion and diversity to a forum that can cross cultural, hierarchical and generational divides.