Philadelphia Region Organizational Development Network

 February 2003

Highlights:

PRODN CALENDAR

-    Monthly Meetings

-    February 26, (Wednesday) – A Networking Event.  Through a series of round table breakouts, you will have a chance to share and hear about “Your Best Consulting Story”, “Your Worst Consulting Story”, “How Does Your Spirituality Play a Role in Your Consulting” and more.   Location (John Harvard’s Brew Pub Wayne PA)

-    March 27 (Thursday) Trust in the Balance:  Building Successful Organizations on Results, Integrity and Concern. Trust has become more elusive as organizations downsize and embrace new organizational practices. If you believe that trust the foundation for successful organizations and teams, then you should attend this event. –An evening with Dr. Robert Shaw of Princeton Consulting Group. (PCOM – Rowland Building, room 340)

-    April 29 (Tuesday) Reschedule of the October Cornell Event Joint meeting with SHRM Interactive Theater as an Educational Medium.  The Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble will engage us in conversations to work through our reactions and stereotypes to gain appreciation of individual motivations and subtleties in interactions.  PCOM City Line Avenue – Rowland Building, room 340)

SPECIAL LEARNING EVENTS

-  February 3-4 2003 White People Confronting Racism Part 2 9:00 – 6:00

Leaders - Antje Mattheus and Lorraine Marino PCOM (City Line Avenue – Rowland Building) 

Report on Paul Hilts January 24th strengths workshop.

26 brave souls ventured from their warm homes into the bitter cold weather on Friday, January 24, 2003 for our Strengths Revolution workshop conducted by Paul Hilt.  From the minute we walked into the room, there was energy in the room to let us know this was going to be a different kind of workshop!  Charts were sprinkled everywhere around the room to provide a visual welcome greeting.  From these we learned all of the workshop participants assessed strengths, Paul’s life on a mind map and how our individual strengths working in combination with each form a visual representation of our value added assets.  We were immediately greeted by two of Paul’s helpers to fill out our name tags, get some breakfast and then using a small post it note, indicate where we were in our career road which was chalked out on the board.  Some chose said “they’d been on a journey for a while”; some indicated “they were at a crossroads”.  All of this immediately started to build our learning community.

Paul then launched into sharing the agenda for the day which comprised of us looking at our past experiences where we’ve not used our natural God given strengths to what we are doing at the present.  To put all into application, we would be developing our future strategies using our Strengths as foundational building ground.  Paul opened with his personal story of discovering his strengths to share how individuals can move from “running against the wind” to running with “The Wind Out Our Backs” by utilizing our natural God given talents. Ask him about Bob Seeger has impacted his life!

Most poignant was the statement that organizations take time to assess what their intangible assets are so we should assess our own intangible assets.  The main focus of the day was us as participants- what we each personally needed to uncover about “invisible selves”. And it is not so much of what strengths we have as to how they work in combination to create our unique self.  Participants shared their visual “combination” maps and key learnings and the day was closed out on a real high note. 

To learn more about the “Wind at Your Back Process”, contact Paul Hilt, Hilt and Associates at 610.695.8909; hilt.associates@verizon.net.

Special Interest Groups (SIG)

Learning Group SIG

-  Next meeting is Feb. 10, at Page Morahan's house 6:30 at Debbie’s home in Oreland PA

New Practitioners SIG

-  2003 meetings are: February 4 (Tuesday), March 5 (Wednesday), April 17 (Thursday), May 13 (Tuesday) and June 18 (Friday).

OTHER NEWS

-                                        Pro-Bono Work with People’s Emergency Center People’s Emergency Center and help individuals move from welfare to work – Contact Nancy Roggen for information (610-834-4418) Next mock interview session in Powelton Village will be February 21^st

 and March 21^st from 10:30 – 12:00. Both dates are Fridays.

 

MONTHLY MEETINGS

Non-member fee of $20 can be applied to Membership when you join at a meeting.  A PRODN membership includes free admission to monthly meetings with the exception of a planned special monthly event featuring the Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble coming this spring.

SIG MEETINGS

Learning Group  Next meeting

The next meeting is on Monday, February 10, from 6:30 to 9:00 at Page Morahan's house, contact Debbie Woolf at Deborah.J.Woolf@gsk.com or 610-270-7491 for directions.

We will be discussing pages 174-229 in the the book we are currently reading: Lessons from the Field, Applying Appreciative Inquiry, Sue Annis Hammond and Cathy Royal, eds., published by Thin Book Publishing, ISBN: 0966537335.

New Practitioners Group SIG Next meetings

Beginning in January 2003 sessions will be held on various days of the week:

February 4 (Tuesday),                        March 5 (Wednesday),

April 17 (Thursday),                            May 13 (Tuesday) and

June 18 (Friday).

Monthly meetings will be near Conshohocken.  Please contact Cynthia Brancato for directions or additional information at 215-652-1602 or email her at Cynthia_Brancato@Merck.com

February 3-4 2003 White People Confronting Racism Part 2 9:00 – 6:00  Leaders - Antje Mattheus and Lorraine Marino  PCOM (City Line Avenue) Phone (610) 526-1100

Whites Confronting Racism, part 2, is the second in a series of three workshops for European Americans – whites – wanting to continue their learning about racism and build skills in addressing it.  This workshop continues the dialogue from the conversations that were started in the Level 1 workshop of this series. 

Questions?
Diane Kitson
diane_l_kitson@uhc.com
or after 6:00 pm at 610.701.5698

Ongoing Pro-Bono Opportunity to Make a Difference at The People’s Emergency Center, Powelton Village area of Philadelphia (near U Penn)

Thank you to the individuals who are supporting the learning and development of the women of the People’s Emergency Center (PEC) who are moving from homelessness to jobs and secure housing for their families.
PEC invites others to volunteer at the center and to give their time and expertise to enrich PEC's programs. Contact Nancy Roggen at 610-834-4418 or by email at nroggen@us.imshealth.com if you want to:
·  conduct a entry level 1-1/2 hour skill-building session
·  be a speaker at a workshop, or
·  be part of the monthly mock interview process       

If you want to support this wonderful organization, please  contact  Laura and identify yourself as a member of PRODN and tell her you want to volunteer in support of the JOBS  Program. For more information about PEC, visit their website at www.pec-cares.org.

Meeting Location Directions

      Map to John Harvard’s Brew Pub

From the Pennsylvania turnpike blue route interchange.

From Center City

Directions to Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

4170 City Ave

Rowland Building
Philadelphia, PA 19131

215 871-6100 (after hours 215 871 6351)

From Philadelphia International Airport
Take Interstate 95 North.
Look for signs to Interstate 76 West to Philadelphia - Valley Forge.
I-76 (follow signs to Valley Forge) at St. Joseph's University sign - stay in left lane and look for Exit City Line Avenue, Route 1 South.
Take City Avenue South two blocks to Monument Road (Adam's Mark Hotel is on the left).
Make a left onto Monument Road, PCOM's entrance is on right before light. Our meetings will be in the Rowland Building. Follow signs to parking garage (flat fee $4).

From New York, New Jersey or New England
Take the New Jersey Turnpike South to the PA Turnpike Exit 6.
Take the PA Turnpike West To Exit #24 (King of Prussia/Valley Forge).
After the tollbooth, follow signs for Philadelphia, Interstate 76 East.
Take I-76 East to the City Avenue Exit (also known as City Line Avenue or U.S. Route 1 South). Take City Avenue South two blocks to Monument Road (Adam's Mark Hotel is on the left). Make a left onto Monument Road, PCOM's entrance is on right before light. Our meetings will be in the Rowland Building. Follow signs to parking garage (flat fee $4).

From the West
Drive east on the PA Turnpike to Exit #24 (King of Prussia/Valley Forge).
After the toll booth, follow signs for Philadelphia, Interstate 76 East.
Take I-76 East to the City Avenue Exit (also known as City Line Avenue or U.S. Route 1 South). Take City Avenue South two blocks to Monument Road (Adam's Mark Hotel is on the left). Make a left onto Monument Road, PCOM's entrance is on right before light. Our meetings will be in the Rowland Building. Follow signs to parking garage (flat fee $4).

If you’ve forgotten to renew your PRODN membership – now’s the time!

Click here for the PRODN Membership form

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