Organization Development Network

Matt Minahan, The Minahan Group
Lee Butler, The Delphi Network
Judy Vogel, Vogel/Glaser & Associates, Inc.

This highly experiential, hands-on session covers the core competencies and theories needed in facilitation. You'll have ample time to practice in pairs and small groups, receiving one-on-one guidance from master facilitators and other session participants. Bring a case study for coaching! The workshop covers the contracting conversation with the client; key factors to consider in designing your session; communication before and after the event; the various roles a facilitator and a client can play; and basic group leadership and facilitation skills, such as reframing, reflecting, summarizing, and charting. This workshop is limited to 30 participants.

A Gestalt Center for Organization & Systems Development Workshop
Marcella Benson-Quaziena
John D. Carter
Veronica Hopper Carter
Brenda B. Jones
Mike Rynex
Dorothy E. Siminovitch

This intensive workshop, based on a year-long training program of the Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development, combines theory and conceptual presentations on intervention with a practicum in which you apply your intervention skills and receive feedback from leaders and participants. The Gestalt Center's approach enables you to develop yourself as an effective instrument of change. You'll focus energy on solving the challenges at hand rather than working solely within a culturally preferred model, as well as learning to design appropriate interventions that consider the consequences for individuals, groups, and the organization. This workshop is limited to 25 participants.
Please note that this workshop meets additional hours:
Friday, October 17, 1:00 - 5:00 pm & 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Saturday, October 18, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm & 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Sunday, October 19, 8:00 am - 12 noon

Rianna Moore, Carol Pierce & Rick Huntley, New Dynamics

Imagine a group model where the focus is not on conflict over leadership and authority but on the group as a separate entity. Flatter structures, including the Power Equity Group, call for working with such a model. In such structures, where the group is an entity with life and work of its own (1) the structure greatly influences how the task is done and how members respond to the group; (2) engagement with the energy of a flatter structure facilitates sustainable change; and (3) the diversity of members is maximized, intensified, and enhanced. This experiential lab, co-sponsored by the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and New Dynamics Consulting, takes diversity awareness to a new level. This workshop is limited to 40 participants.

Sam Kaner, Community At Work

Difficult problems involving multiple stakeholders often require a sophisticated decision-making process. This workshop offers participants a powerful model of the phases of participatory decision-making. Along with the model, participants will receive and discuss several facilitation tools that promote mutual understanding and foster inclusive solutions.

Michael Bungay Stainer, Box of Crayons

Coaching is hot. But a recent study showed that less than a quarter of people receiving coaching felt it was having real impact. What's getting in the way? This workshop explores the four barriers that stop coaching from flourishing, the secret to positioning coaching strategically so it supports OD initiatives, why a 'coaching culture' is a disaster, and the Three Coaching Moments that matter. You'll leave with new insight into what it takes for coaching to work in your organization'as well as expanded coaching skills. This workshop draws on practical experience with clients such as Gartner, Me to We, PricewaterhouseCooper, Nestle, and AstraZeneca. It is an expanded version of the session Coaching 2.0, presented with acclaim at OD Network Conference 2007. This workshop is limited to 35 participants.

Barry Cross, Elsie Y. Cross Associates, Inc.
Amber Mayes, Amber Mayes Consulting

In our evolving and highly competitive 21st century world, the primary organizational challenges and opportunity involve working with, selling to, recruiting, retaining, managing, and generally learning to engage all people. HR and Diversity practitioners deepen their ability to work with diverse employees by developing their own self-awareness, skills, and knowledge using our unique perspective, philosophy, and tools. Elsie Y. Cross Associates, Inc., a leading source of expertise in the field of diversity, for the first time invites HR and Diversity practitioners to preview and experience our highly interactive, systemic approach to our one-day workshop. Come explore your multiple group memberships and develop new skills. This workshop is limited to 25 participants.

Dick Axelrod, The Axelrod Group, Inc.
Barbara Bunker, University at Buffalo, Portsmouth Consulting Group
Emily Axelrod, The Axelrod Group, Inc.
Billie Alban, Alban & Williams, Ltd.

Are you faced with a change issue that requires getting the whole system in the room? Do you want to go beyond standard large-group processes to design a large-group process unique to your circumstances? Do you want to learn some new ways of designing large groups? Then this workshop is for you.

Edwin Nevis, Gestalt International Study Center
Sonia M. Nevis, PhD, Gestalt International Study Center
Nancy Hardaway, Gestalt International Study Center

The Cape Cod Model is a unique, optimistic, and accessible Gestalt approach to working with dyads, small groups, and organizations. This radically simple and powerful model builds on the competence of the client and prepares the client to deal with organizational needs and problems by building on what it does well. Originally developed for couples and family therapy by Sonia Nevis, Joseph Zinker, Joseph Melnick, and Penny Backman, the model was soon extended to organizational consulting. Through demonstration and practice, participants learn how to empower both leaders and followers. The workshop also establishes how the model is used in team building, third-party interventions, and leadership development, as well as in training social change specialists in such places as Northern Ireland and South Africa. This workshop is limited to 35 participants.

Charlie Badenhop, Seishindo

Would you like to increase your capacity to lead others? Dynamic leaders understand that their presence speaks louder than their words. They know how to create an organizational environment that inspires others to step up and join the fray. But how can leaders remain centered in the face of the uncertainty and turbulent change facing their organizations? In this presentation, drawing mainly from the theories of Seishindo, Aikido, and NLP, you'll learn how seasoned martial artists and dynamic leaders access and use the information transmitted by their bodies to help quiet the thinking mind and communicate with confidence. As an embodied leader, you'll inspire others to believe in themselves and in the likelihood of success.

Rob Wetzels, Nyenrode University
Jaap Peters, De Limes OD
Fokke Wijnstra, FiNext
Henke Hogeweg, FiNext
Harold Janssen, Overmars

Using what we have learned from attending OD Network Conferences since 2002, as well as the best of our own highly rated pre-conference workshops, we explore the essential similarities and differences in both primary and less-known OD strategies and practices on each side of the Atlantic. Working both inside the building and in real, live Texas, we'll discover the relevant principles in two approaches: the Rhenish social market economy and the Anglo-Saxon shareholders model. We can see and feel the differences in Michael Moore's movie Sicko. This workshop is limited to 32 participants.

Dorothy E. Siminovitch, Ph.D., Gestalt Center for Organization and Systems Development
Neil Sklarew, Georgia Center for Nonprofits
John Ledwith, Sandia National Laboratories

Coaching is a distinctive contact competency, a professional calling, and an evolving industry. This one-day intensive will introduce the OSD-International Gestalt Coaching Program's ICF-accredited model of coaching and offer opportunities for practice. We will explore Gestalt concepts and techniques of assessment involved in contracting and ongoing work, the process of shaping learning, and use-of-self in the coaching role. Business and human service professionals, as well as anyone interested in learning the Gestalt approach to coaching, will discover the power of Gestalt coaching and its relationship to OD practice. You'll also leave the workshop with a practical understanding of Gestalt coaching. This workshop is limited to 24 participants.

Marcella Benson-Quaziena, The Benson-Quaziena Group
Cathy Royal, Royal Consulting Group, LLC

This interactive, experiential session focuses on the impact of race, gender, and other key social identities on the development and presence of power differentials in cultures and systems. We will work with the Quadrant Behavior Theory [QBT] as a means of analyzing power and oppression in systems, cultures, groups, and individuals. QBT examines and tracks individual and group behaviors to identify both actions that shift the imbalance of power and behaviors that support oppression and exclusion. Participants will engage in dialogue across quadrant groups (race and gender) and within quadrants; QBT and interactive dialogue give participants an opportunity to examine connected behaviors. This workshop is limited to 24 participants.

Bea Carson, Carson Consultants
Chuck Appleby, Appleby & Associates, LLC

Action Learning has become the next hot idea in executive and managerial development. Dr. Bea Carson and Dr. Chuck Appleby will explain why the approach is so powerful and holds such promise for leadership development and for the transformation to a learning organization. The session will consist of a short lecture, followed by hands-on practice that will give participants a full appreciation of the power of Action Learning.

Angela Watts & Anthony Moore, CPA,
Annapolis Professional Resources, Inc.

How much should you charge for your services? This half-day comprehensive workshop is an extended version of the webinar offered through OD Network's Building Business Acumen course. Learn to calculate and evaluate your billing rate and to answer questions on pricing effectively and confidently. Workshop presenters–an external OD practitioner and a financial management consultant–bring years of practical, real-world experience, insight, and solutions to the challenging subject of pricing. Together they will actively engage you through information-sharing, simulation, and use of a price determination model. This session is highly recommended for beginning and veteran external OD consultants who want to feel more confident about determining their pricing. Bring either a laptop computer or calculator and, of course, your stories and questions about pricing your services. This workshop is limited to 25 participants.