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Highlights: - PRODN CALENDAR - April 18 - Continuing the Dialogue on Race (Monthly Program) - May 23 - Voices of OD Founders (Monthly Program) - June 20 - Developing Your Own Leadership Aria (Monthly Program) - PRODN ACTIVITIES - Seeking Steering Committee nominations - Reports on: - "White People Confronting Racism" - February Program: Emotional Intelligence - March Program: Getting "Gigs" from Gigs (handout available) - OTHER ACTIVITIES - OD Network Annual Conference - a note from Jane Weiss - OD Network Appreciative Inquiry Clinics ---->> Philadelphia: April 8-9 + Denver and San Francisco AND - Don't forget to renew today for 2002 - Renew |
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Thursday,
April 18 Monthly Program
This meeting will be a regrouping of folks following the Day of Healing workshop for Blacks and the White’s Confronting Racism workshop. Philadelphia is pursuing a unique process for exploring racism in our organizations and communities. At PRODN’s November monthly meeting people of color and whites learned about the experience of the Race Dialog Group. Out of that meeting came the Day of Healing and White’s Confronting Racism. Our meeting on April 18 will be a coming together of both groups to have a dialog about our learning to date. You do not have to have attended one of these workshops to join us on April 18th - All are welcome.
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Thursday,
May 23 Monthly Program
Have you ever wonder what it would be like if you could dialogue with several OD founders at once, to ask them their various perspectives and how they have informed and influenced each other’s work? We have too! Join us for this imaginative, informative, fun program.
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Thursday,
June 20 Monthly Program
Music is a key influencer in our day to day lives, but rarely do we consider it to provide a lens into our own leadership style. This evening's program will provide entertainment as well as a thought provoking, self discovery process in which you will discover your own unique, authentic leadership style and the opportunities to apply it effectively.
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SEEKING NOMINATIONS
It’s that time again… the PRODN Steering Committee is asking for nominations for the upcoming year. We are looking for individuals to fulfill leadership roles around the following:
We would also like to announce that Ron Preston has accepted the nomination for Treasurer for the coming year. We will have a vote on this at an upcoming meeting. Thank you Ron. Please forward any questions and/or nominations to: Kim Eberbach @ Keberbach@onemain.com or 215-836-4326. =================== REPORT ON FEBRUARY 25-26: WHITE
PEOPLE CONFRONTING RACISM Click here for complete info =================== REPORT ON FEBRUARY 28 MONTHLY PROGRAM: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE EI! EI! Oh! Until last year, that’s about as close as I had gotten to EI. It was then that an inquiry from the Army caused me to do enough research to incorporate EI concepts into a leadership development program that was built around The Center For Creative Leadership’s capacities for leaders (see below) and Rob Lebow’s Shared Values Model of Business and People Values. Click here to read complete item by Dave Finley. =================== REPORT ON MARCH 21 MONTHLY PROGRAM:
GETTING "GIGS" FROM GIGS Thursday March 21, 2002 was a blustery evening - mirroring perhaps the cold wind a consultant feels when a prospective client bemoans the list of technology projects looming on the horizon. In the past, this might have provided an opportunity to briefly commiserate, and leave making a mental note to “call back in 6 months when SAP is installed”. At the end of the evening participants who braved the wind, found themselves a little more able to imagine a different kind of conversation. Perhaps your distracted internal partner is not banning OD services for the duration, he or she might be in real need of an OD professional’s help to support the people part of their changing world while software engineers and implementation team toil with system testing and debugging. We started by learning that CRM is Customer Relationship Management, and SAP is not really an insult, it is an enterprise wide system that boasts interconnectivity for machines but does not guarantee that the people processes will reap the benefits of improved communications. Tricia Steege and Tione Kormanik helped us understand that our skills may be essential for a successful software implementation IF we can speak enough technology to highlight the need for a complete system solution, or the consequences of a myopic approach.
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NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE - A NOTE FROM JANE WEISS
And now for some shameless promotion. I just came back from our second meeting in Montreal to plan the 2002 ODN conference - which will be in Montreal from October 18th - October 23rd (including pre and post conference sessions). Without going into a lot of detail at this point, I just wanted to get it on your radar screen. I feel very confident in promoting the conference now that we've put the program together. We open with Fritjof Capra. His latest book is The Web of Life: A New Understanding of Human Systems. He also wrote The Tao of Physics. You can check out descriptions of these on Amazon. He brilliantly combines science, philosophy, mysticism and the study of social systems and turns previous thinking on its ear. The conference will close with Meg Wheatley with whose work most of you are familiar. Her latest book, Turning to One Another, is one of the most beautiful books I've read. In the middle of the conference will be Lee Mun Wah. His first film, The Color of Fear, is the most compelling film on diversity I've ever seen. He is a Chinese American man whose mother was killed by an African American man. That started his inward and outward journey to educate and build bridges. He is an amazing person from what I see. Did anyone see him on Oprah? The pre- and post-conference Intensives are great! As you've probably seen, the final module of the AI clinics starting here next month will be a the Conference. There will be a gestalt workshop, Future Search, NTL, Rebecca Chan Allen, Bob Marshak, Women in Leadership...you get the picture. Plus, Montreal est tres belle. In the upcoming months you will find more information on the OD Network website - www.odnetwork.org. Stay tuned for more info - brochures come out in May. I hope you will come to Montreal this fall! Conference web site: http://www.odnetwork.org/conf2002/ |
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