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Highlights: - Newsletter Changes - PRODN Calendar - September 7 & 17 - AI SIG - September 20 - Consulting: From a Psychodynamic Point of View - September 25 - Monthly Program: Connect, Network and Reconnect - October 16 - Monthly Program: Bringing Equality of Voice by Using Whole Scale - October 22: A Day with Geoff Bellman - PRODN Activities - MentorNet News - AI SIG News - Report on Meeting with national OD Network Board - Reminder: Web Site Directory Enhancements - Reflections on "Facilitating in the Experience Economy" - Other News - National OD Network Conference - Vancouver - November 9-14 - 2002 OD Network Conference Proposal Readers Needed - Social Dreaming Program - September 28-30 Job Corner click here for full information - Jewish Employment and Vocational Service - Human Resource Development Sales Visit the Job Corner anytime to see current job listings |
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Changes
to Network News: The format has been changed for
2001-2002 to make it easier to use. Each issue will contain three parts:
a calendar of all PRODN activities, a section of other PRODN activities such as SIG
news, and a section of other news. New this year: A Job Corner - where
all job and work opportunities are posted on a continuing basis (not just when a
newsletter is published) can be linked from the highlights section or
from the PRODN Info Central home page..
Do you have an item for Network News? Send input to webmaster@prodn.org. Notices will be inserted free for non-profit organizations and at a modest fee for commercial notices. Click here for more information. |
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September
7 & 17: Appreciative Inquiry SIG Meetings
Appreciative Inquiry Consulting: The Broccoli Alliance and PRODN members who have done or will attend the Taos Institute training are talking about forming a "centre" and joining Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, a new global alliance. If you have interest in DVAIC, come and share your thoughts and passion. We aim to have an agreement about membership by September 28 when several are going to the First International Conference on AI in Baltimore. Two meetings will be held at Susan Wood's house in
Radnor Click here for full information |
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Thursday,
September 20: Special
Learning Event
Consulting:
Do you ever find yourself in the middle of a consulting project asking, "What’s really going on here?" Join PRODN for a mind-expanding day with Dr. Larry Hirschhorn, a consultant who is continually driven to make sense of complex situations, and determines what is going on in an organization by contemplating and calculating as many of the interrelationships as he can encompass. These might include quantitative financial and industry data, operational realities of the enterprise, the organization’s culture, and the psychodynamics of the leadership team. In this one-day session, Larry will introduce us to psychodynamic concepts that enable consultants to help groups and organizations become more effective. |
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The summer is over! Welcome back! Connect, Network, and Reconnect with old friends and colleagues. Come and hear about our upcoming monthly programs and learning events. Hear the Steering Committee’s ideas for The 2001-2002 Program Year. |
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Tuesday, October 16: Monthly Program Bringing
Equality of Voice Logistics Registration 5:30: Networking Please
register by Questions: Come help us experience an opportunity for all voices in the room to be heard! Dannemiller Tyson Associates will facilitate us in an evening of creating and building our community. The evening will be designed and conducted using the principles of Whole Scale Change to help us "Get to One Brain-One Heart"! You will learn proven methods that you can immediately implement with your clients and in your own life. DTA's latest publications: Whole-Scale Change: Unleashing the Magic in Organizations and The Whole Scale Change Toolkit will be available for purchase. |
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Monday,
October 22: Special
Learning Event:
A
Day with Geoff Bellman:
What a unique opportunity to spend a day with one of our key mentors about internal and external consulting! We will be spend the day discussing issues such as: "Building relationships with our clients - constructive rather than destructive relationships; building ongoing and long term relationships rather than single-project relationships; building power within the organizations in which we work; dealing with our own fears of failure; bringing consulting into all parts of our lives" and much more! Geoff's newly published 2nd editions: "The Consultant's Calling" and "Getting Things Done When You're Not In Charge" will be available for purchase. |
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Mentornet News
MentorNet needs mentors in specific categories. You can help MentorNet by completing your personal description and skillsets. MentorNet and the New Practitioners Group will be working more closely together. Click here for complete information. |
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Appreciative Inquiry Consulting: The Broccoli Alliance and PRODN members who have done or will attend the Taos Institute training are talking about forming a "centre" and joining appreciative Inquiry Consulting, a new global alliance. If you have interest in DVAIC, come and share your thoughts and passion. We aim to have an agreement about membership by September 28 when several are going to the First International Conference on AI in Baltimore. Two meetings have been set: DVAIC would be made up of individuals who fully subscribe to and work with AI in their practice that is in accordance with the Purpose and Principles of AIC LLC. (Please see page Purpose and Principles on pages 4-6 of the Charter for the Purpose and Principles). I envision DVAIC to be diverse and inclusive. We would be a self-organizing alliance for the purpose of learning, building business, and collaborating to bring an appreciative approach to organizations in which we work. The cost is $300/year if we have 21 or more members in our Philadelphia Centre. Kindly RSVP to by Thursday, 9/13 for the 9/17 mtg. to Eileen Shanahan at EileenShanahan@aol.com . Contact either Eileen or Susan Wood at Susanowood@toast.net for more information on the AIC Charter. Susan Wood has generously offered to
host the meetings in her home: Click here for the AI SIG information page |
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Meeting
with National ODN Board
On Monday, August 6, 2001 about 15 members of PRODN and the Steering Committee met with the Board of the OD Network. The purpose of the meeting was to exchange information regarding specific issues each organization faces, brainstorm areas of potential collaboration and network at a personal level. The gathering lasted about 2.5 hours and proved enlightening and enjoyable for all involved. |
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Web Site Directory Enhancements - Available Now
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Facilitating in the Experience Economy - with Rob McNeil Most exhilarating! Come on, ODers, we are really behind the time regarding using technology already available to us. I believe our clients are definitely raising the bar regarding their exceptions of OD to deliver "more, faster". This workshop made it clear to me that a major way to do just that would be to utilize laptop technology. Laptops allow us to exponentially speed up the process of getting more inputs and synthesizing them faster. In turn, we can then immediately have critical masses of "real data" to influence decision-makers. A second major learning for me was about ways in which digital video can be used for marketing: pictures are worth lots of words –video will be worth lots more in terms of powerful impacts that capitalize upon both on right and left brain learning. -- Bonalyn Mosteller, Ed.D. ------------------ The Groupware approach is something I will offer to my Leadership Development steering committee here and see what reaction they have. I really liked the way you can synthesize so many ideas very quickly and have the record in one place without having to compile a bunch of charts. We have so many challenges with communicating across expanding geographic and functional boundaries that every idea is being explored. My thanks to Rob and Todd for a nicely organized and informative day. -- Helen Krewson ------------------ The program exposed me to a certain technologies that I was not already familiar with and that I do expect to utilize in the future. I believe that it is imperative for OD professionals to become comfortable with these new approaches so that we can identify the right applications for each. Rob and Todd did a nice job of emphasizing that we do not need to become experts -- just understand what is available and how/ when to access it. -- Helen Cooke ------------------ Rob is a master teacher on many subjects. This exposure was not only to an interesting set of tools (Council and WebCouncil), but offered a view of a different paradigm for significantly different and significantly more engaging meetings. It's a mystery to me why so few OD people use these tools. Hopefully that will change as sessions like Rob's demystify the process. -- Warren Hoffman |
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2001
National
ODN Conference
The OD Network’s 2001 Annual Conference will be in Vancouver on November 9-14. The theme is Traditions, Transitions, Transformations in a Global Economy. PRODN's Jim Crumel is on the Program Committee. The program is exciting and informative. Pre-conference intensives are great opportunities to learn. The three days of the main conference are filled with events for everyone from someone considering entering the OD profession to the most seasoned professional. And Vancouver is a wonderful and affordable place to visit in the fall. Important: PRODN members will receive a $50 discount! Go to http://www.odnetwork.org/conf2001 for information and to register. Enter Group Code 2040 in the group discount area. High registration numbers are anticipated, so make your plans early! Earlybird rates expire on September 10 so register today. |
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Diverse
Committee Needed for 2002 OD Network Conference Proposal Readers
Looking for a few good OD practitioners to help determine the content of the 2002 Montreal ODN conference. Criteria for readers: Be an ODN member (not just PRODN) and have attended a national conference (this one we could be flexible about). What's required: Approximately 10 hours of your time mostly in February along with a group of other fun and interesting readers from PRODN. WHO TO CONTACT FOR MORE INFO OR TO VOLUNTEER: Jane Weiss (jswmail@aol.com) or 215-242-5508. |
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Social Dreaming Program: The Philadelphia Center for Organizational Dynamics of the A. K. Rice Institute is presenting its second annual Social Dreaming Program on September 28-30 at the McCall Field Conference Center in Upper Darby. The leader will be W. Gordon Lawrence. For information please contact Marvin Berman at QuietrMind@aol.com. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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