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NetForm Social Network Analysis Certificate

Dates: 06-06-2008 to 10-17-2008
Registration Deadline: 05-30-2007
Location: Chicago IL  USA
Contact Name: Nicholas Corne
Contact Email: ncorne@odnetwork.org
Website: www.odnetwork.org/events/netform/
Description:
Dr. Karen Stephenson’s NetForm analysis of social networks offers a unique approach to OD initiatives. The OD Network is offering the first ever NetForm Social Network Analysis certificate and license for OD and HR professionals. When you complete this 40-hour course, which includes personal coaching from Dr. Stephenson, you’ll have the skills and tools to help your clients use the social patterns of their organizations to effect positive and purposeful change. You'll also have a one-year licens

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Workshop: Increasing Effectiveness by Understanding Values

Dates: 05-13-2008 to 05-13-2008
Location: Cupertino CA  USA
Sponsored by: Work In Progress Coaching
Contact Name: Camille Smith, President
Contact Email: camille@wipcoaching.com
Website: http://www.wipcoaching.com
Description:
A workshop for leaders, managers, coaches, consultants, educators -- anyone who who must work well with others influencing, inspiring, and coordinating action -- to accomplishing meaningful goals. If your commitment is to help someone accomplish their goals, how do you ensure that your goals don't undermine the process? How do you distinguish what you value so that it does not over-ride what the other person values? Understanding values is indispensable for any process of development and change. Values are the source of our direction and the basis of our natural motivation. Unexplored values, expressed through habitual and automatic choices, limit learning, undermine performance and constrain what's possible. In this workshop, you will * Identify core values and learn ways to increase performance * Identify blind spots, hot buttons - learn how to reduce their limiting impact * Identify comfort zones, see ways to go beyond and access potential * Create an action plan that puts what you learned into practice Benefits * Focus your developmental efforts to build on your strengths * Increase your results and satisfaction * Increase your communication with others who have different values Each participant receives * Personal Values Report * Values Exploration Workbook with exercises, resources * 30-minute post-workshop coaching call ** Registration closes 1 week before.

Hiring Excellent People

Dates: 05-13-2008 to 05-13-2008
Location: Santa Rosa CA  USA
Sponsored by: Northern California Human Resources Association
Contact Email: nchra@nchra.org
Website: http://www.nchra.org
Description:
Studies show that top performers produce 48% more than average employees. In fact, compared to less than average workers, top performers produce 96% more than the non-producers. Can you afford to run your organization at 52% or even worse, 4% of its potential? No organization can, especially in today's competitive business environment. Learn to hire the best and the brightest by applying a time-tested organizational excellence recruitment model. Attend this meeting to: -Develop a strategy to determine the best person for the job -Assess critical task and relationship needs of open positions -Effectively use assessments in the hiring process -Gain techniques for conducting behavioral interviews As an HR professional, imagine focusing your attention on developing great performers instead of dealing with poor performers, progressive discipline and terminations. By having a streamlined process which assures hiring top performers for the organization, you can do just that. Speaker: Jeannette Feldman, Principal of The Personnel Perspective, has over twenty years experience as a management consultant, Human Resources generalist, and leadership trainer. She has held management positions in both Human Resources and Employment for technology and manufacturing organizations. As a consultant, she provides expertise and counsel to CEO's and senior management on issues related to all facets of organizational development, team development, human resources, management training, and recruitment.

Essentials of Human Resource Management

Dates: 05-13-2008 to 05-14-2008
Location: Foster City CA  USA
Sponsored by: Northern California Human Resources Association
Contact Email: nchra@nchra.org
Website: http://www.nchra.org
Description:
**2 Day Program** 15 CPE Credits New to HR? Ready to learn more about the issues involved in hiring and retaining staff, employment law, compensation and managing performance? Knowledge of the what, why and how of human resources can help improve your skills and advance your career, while protecting your company from needless litigation. This comprehensive two-day program, taught by an experienced practitioner, is a must for anyone responsible for managing others effectively and legally. This course provides important knowledge and skills you can use immediately in your day-to-day job: 1. Essentials of Human Resource Management - gain a clear understanding of the HR function 2. Employment Law in Your Workplace - enhance your ability to apply key HR legislation 3. Effective Recruitment and Selection Techniques - gain important skills for selecting employees 4. Basics of Compensation and Benefits - learn the key elements of a total compensation system 5. Orienting and Training Your Employees - gain an understanding of orientation, development and training 6. Ensuring Quality Performance - discover the purpose and process for performance appraisal Who Should Attend *Entry-level human resource professionals *Managers, supervisors or small business owners needing a basic knowledge of human resources *Non-exempt HR staff requiring a broad knowledge of functional human resource areas

Seminar: Organizational Savvy: Avoiding Political Blind Spots

Dates: 05-13-2008 to 05-13-2008
Location: San Francisco CA  USA
Sponsored by: Northern California Human Resources Association
Contact Email: nchra@nchra.org
Website: http://www.nchra.org
Description:
6 CPE Credits Are you unwittingly underestimating the role that politics plays in how well your ideas sell or how you move ahead? Despite our best intentions, many of us become victims of forces operating behind-the-scene in our organizations. Discover how you can become more politically savvy by shifting your thinking about power and politics, confronting your political blind spots, and identifying your own political style and its strengths and vulnerabilities. Through case studies, skill practice and discussion, and using the results of a pre-course assessment you complete, you'll learn to protect yourself from political trouble and increase your organizational influence and impact while maintaining your personal integrity. Speaker: Rick Brandon has 30+ years of performance improvement and training experience. Annually he trains thousands in workshops in companies worldwide and appears in educational videos. He is the founder and CEO of Brandon Partners and author of the Wall Street Journal best seller, Survival of the Savvy (Free Press, 2004).

Keeping Discrimination, Retaliation & Harassment Out of the Workplace

Dates: 05-13-2008 to 05-13-2008
Location: Walnut Creek CA  USA
Sponsored by: Northern California Human Resources Association
Contact Email: nchra@nchra.org
Website: http://www.nchra.org
Description:
6 CPE/MCLE Credits Practical knowledge and tools that go beyond standard employee policies are presented in this comprehensive program that considers not only the severe legal and financial penalties of ineffective discrimination and harassment prevention, but also the impact of low morale, lost productivity and bad publicity. Concentration Areas: -State and federal laws related to discrimination, harassment and retaliation -Overlap and interaction between state and federal regulations -Effective policies, guidelines and reporting procedures -Tools and strategies for investigating harassment and discrimination claims -Best practices in prevention training as mandated by AB 1825 Who Should Attend: -HR professionals and consultants who develop, monitor and update employment policies for California businesses -In-house counsel, compliance managers and HR practitioners responsible for identifying critical employment law developments and administering legally compliant HR programs Speakers: Paula Champagne is a partner in the San Francisco office of Littler Mendelson. She advises and represents clients in matters involving employment discrimination, wrongful termination and affirmative action. Andrea Kelly Smethurst is an employment law attorney. She advises clients on personnel issues, and conducts workplace investigations and harassment prevention training programs.

Masterfully Handling Difficult People

Dates: 05-14-2008 to 05-14-2008
Location: San Rafael CA  USA
Sponsored by: Northern California Human Resources Association
Contact Email: nchra@nchra.org
Website: http://www.nchra.org
Description:
Fear, anger and self doubt are common human emotions and especially endemic to organizational life. It's not uncommon to encounter employees, managers and executives who are irritating, disagreeable or otherwise simply unpleasant. Sometimes we even see these characteristics in ourselves. Regardless of who is the "difficult" one, the result is a profound impact on teamwork, collaboration and overall productivity. HR professionals who learn to cope with difficult personalities provide significant benefits to employees and an enormous value to their organizations. Attend this meeting to: -Leverage insights into the inner workings of difficult people -Confidently respond to a variety of provocative behaviors -Transform negative emotional states (even your own) into positive ones -Skillfully manage impatient CEO's and other executives HR professionals will leave this presentation equipped with robust tools and strategies for confidently and adeptly disarming even the most difficult colleagues and the most testy of executives. Speaker: Dean Herman, Ph.D., a consultant, executive coach and psychologist, has promoted the professional growth and leadership development of thousands of business leaders in such companies as Hewlett-Packard, Wells Fargo, Sun, Nestle and Toyota. He has been specifically retained to coach dozens of HR managers to increase their effectiveness with business leaders.

Workshop: Lessons Learned from a Successful Re-Organization

Dates: 05-14-2008 to 05-14-2008
Location: San Francisco CA  USA
Sponsored by: Northern California Human Resources Association
Contact Email: nchra@nchra.org
Website: http://www.nchra.org
Description:
3 CPE Credits Successful transformations take time and require a consistent, integrated approach throughout the organization. This session outlines a five-stage plan that breaks down corporate reorganizations into manageable steps so no consideration is overlooked. Through a case study approach, learn what it takes to make organizational transformations work, from creating a timeline and benchmarks for success, to multi-level communication, to training and performance management that helps maintain positive results. After the session, participants will be able to: -Identify what it takes to make organizational transformations successful -Integrate performance management, communication, candidate selection and training and development into their transformation plan -Use a "phased" approach to their next organizational transformation. Participants receive a planning tool to help guide their organization through a major transformation -- from determining your ultimate goal to celebrating your success. Speaker: Terry Barton is Principal of TBG Consulting, a Bay Area management consulting firm. Ms. Barton is an accomplished facilitator, trainer and executive coach, providing services to the biotech, retail, shipping and non-profit industries. She brings 18 years of Management experience and over 10 years of Change Management and Training and Development experience to her clients.

Generations At Work: Managing & Motivating

Dates: 05-14-2008 to 05-14-2008
Location: Dublin CA  USA
Sponsored by: Northern California Human Resources Association
Contact Email: nchra@nchra.org
Website: http://www.nchra.org
Description:
Multiple generations co-existing in companies is a workplace reality HR professionals must address. Millennials don't think or respond like Gen Xers or Baby Boomers, yet are emerging as the largest workforce in the history of America. "One size fits all" will no longer work. Managers must acquire, refine and exercise deep knowledge, understanding and skill in leading, communicating with and motivating employees whose norms, beliefs, values and cultural influences differ. Participants will discuss how different generations define respect, being valued and work ethics; and develop effective workplace communications, improve collaborative efforts, and manage to generational strengths. Gain skills to: Adapt to generational training needs Give and receive feedback to motivate employees Mitigate workplace conflict Retain millennial generation employees Regardless of your generational roots, this session gives you the tools to identify, respond and capitalize on generational diversity. Speaker: As Executive Vice President of HR Solutions, Judith Enns has 24 years experience in human resources, management, talent acquisition, and organizational communication. She has frequently spoken to human resources, academic and business groups, written and been interviewed by the media on recruiting, interviewing and hiring, coaching and counseling employees, worklife trends, employee engagement, what CEO's expect of human resources, careers in human resources, sales, and leadership topics.

Strategic Metrics & Analytics Conference

Dates: 05-15-2008 to 05-15-2008
Location: San Francisco CA  USA
Sponsored by: Northern California Human Resources Association
Contact Email: nchra@nchra.org
Website: http://www.nchra.org
Description:
6.5 CPE Credits Explore the power of metrics and analytics as applied to a variety of HR practice areas at our fifth annual Strategic HR Metrics Conference. Presenters have "been there, done that" and focus on practical concepts and tools to build applied knowledge and enable participants to make an immediate impact. Keynote: It's the Journey Numbers don't have answers and analytics do not determine action. Heresay? Perhaps. Dr. Steve McElfresh challenges - and expands - our perspective on the role that HR analytics play in the strategic conversation, building competitive advantage and the process of leadership. Speaker: Steve McElfresh, Ph.D., SPHR, Founder & Principal, HR Futures Marbles in Jars: Innovative Feedback Ideas Hear firsthand Google's experience with various data collection methods, from marbles in jars to surveys and focus groups. Participants will consider how they can use this experience to adapt and design their own methods to inspire action. Speaker: Michelle A. Donovan, Ph.D., People Analytics Manager, Google Avoiding Analysis Paralysis Help managers interpret their scores quickly and easily to avoid analysis paralysis. Learn the strategic impact you can make to increase competitive advantage, and equip leaders in the use of their survey scores. Speaker: Catherine Komins, Director of HR, Menlo Worldwide Logistics Leveraging HR Metrics: A True Story Hear how HR at McDonald's leveraged HR metrics to reposition itself as a core driver of corporate performance, and further focused employees at all levels on a few critical targets to improve customer value and experience. Speaker: Brian Ray, Senior Director-Global HR Design Group, McDonald's Corporation Human Capital Decision Science This session shows participants how to use workforce analytics to address the current demand to bring a decision science approach to human capital management. Speaker: Joanne Bintliff-Ritchie, Chief Strategist, DoubleStar, Inc.

Applying Intercultural Concepts to Positive Organizational Change

Dates: 05-21-2008 to 05-31-2008
Registration Deadline: 05-21-2008
Location: Boston MA  USA
Sponsored by: Massachusetts Bay Organizational Development Learning Group
Contact Name: Jim Murphy
Contact Email: programs@Learninggroup.org
Website: www.learninggroup.org
Description:
The May 21 meeting of the Massachusetts Bay Organizational Development Learning Group features Jaime Wurzel of Salem State College and The Intercultural Research Cooperation on “Applying Intercultural Concepts to Positive Educational Change”. Through small group exercises and discussion, participants will examine the way in which organizational members form assumptions about the organizational culture and the implications of this process for change in organizations. All Learning Group programs also provide opportunities for networking and follow up learning and prize giveaways. The meeting will be at City Year, 287 Columbus Avenue, Boston, 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM. The meeting is free to members, $30 for nonmembers, and $20 for members of partnering organizations and nonmember students; food is included. Reservations are required and may be sent to programs@learninggroup.org. For further information, see www.learninggroup.org or call 617-536-2505.

Running a Strategic Marketing Boot Camp for Engineers

Dates: 05-27-2008 to 05-27-2008
Registration Deadline: 05-27-2008
Location: Pasadena California  USA
Sponsored by: Technology Marketing Center & Caltech Industrial Relations Center
Contact Name: Julie Anderson
Contact Email: jjka@caltech.edu
Website: www.technologymarketingcenter.com
Description:
A free 30-minutes online interview at 10am Pacific/1pm Eastern. The Manager of Business Process Improvements in the Digital Light Processing division at Texas Instruments, Inc. will discuss an innovative experiential learning program to help technical managers master strategic marketing concepts. Anyone with a computer and Internet connection can attend and submit questions.

Leading Nonprofit Organizations

Dates: 06-16-2008 to 06-19-2008
Registration Deadline: 06-02-2008
Location: South Wellfleet, Cape Cod MA  USA
Sponsored by: Gestalt International Study Center
Contact Name: Arlene C. Kirsch
Contact Email: office@gisc.org
Website: www.gisc.org
Description:
This program is designed for EDs of nonprofit organizations who wish to build their influence and increase their strategic effectiveness. The demands of attending to diverse stakeholders in rapidly shifting environments with limited resources make nonprofit leadership particularly challenging. GISC's program addresses these realities head-on, building on decades of experience in understanding organizations and developing leaders.

2008 Int'l Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Orgs

Dates: 06-16-2008 to 06-22-2008
Registration Deadline: 05-31-2008
Location: Philadelphia PA  USA
Sponsored by: Int'l Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Orgs
Contact Name: Marisa Guerin, PhD
Contact Email: mguerin@guerinconsulting.com
Website: www.ispso.org
Description:
The International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO) is pleased to announce that its annual meeting will be held at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from June 16 to June 22, 2008. Open to the public, the conference theme is “Motivation and Meaning at Work,” and will include workshops and a symposium of broad interest to business leaders, clinicians, scholars and organizational consultants. Complete information about the meeting program, registration, and lodging can be found at www.ispso.org. The Annual Meeting includes 17 stand-alone professional development workshops covering a broad range of topics of interest to scholars and practitioners, such as the psychodynamics of executive coaching with Kathleen White, consulting to family businesses with Nancy Drozdow and Barry Dornfeld, the future search method and effective meetings with Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff, organizational role analysis with Bruce Irvine and Vega Roberts, abundance as a paradigm for organizational life with Kenwyn Smith, and others. The workshops are rare opportunities for sophisticated exploration with international colleagues of topics that relate psychoanalytic methods to professional practice. The professional development workshops (PDWs) and the weekend symposium are open to the public as well as to members of the ISPSO at reasonable cost. Non-member rates for PDWs are $395 per workshop day, and the fee for the three-day weekend Symposium is $750 ($800 after April 30, 2008).

Organizational Trust: Cultivating Authenticity, Commitment, and Collaboration

Dates: 06-22-2008 to 06-28-2008
Registration Deadline: 06-21-2008
Location: Halifax Nova Scotia  Canada
Sponsored by: The Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership
Contact Name: Cara Lynn Garvock
Contact Email: clgarvock@shambhalainstitute.org
Website: www.shambhalainstitute.org/alia/2008summer/module0...
Description:
Effective leaders bring out the best in others. They understand that organizations are made up of networks of conversation, and that engaging these networks skillfully is a core leadership competence. These leaders are able to form warm and caring relationships and set the tone for authentic conversation. They cultivate high-performing teams and a collaborative culture, where people are able to work together effectively even in the midst of conflict and controversy. In this workshop, you will learn skills and practices that build high levels of alignment, trust, and team-work through authentic conversation. You will practice the art of making requests and offers, negotiating commitments, resolving conflicts, and valuing a diversity of personal styles and approaches. You will build self-awareness about your own relating style, and the patterns of your “inner operating system” that directly impact synergy, trust, and collaboration in the workplace. This module is presented by Susan Skjei, M.S., P.C.C., and Dr. Ruben Perczek. This is one of ten skill-building modules available at "Authentic Leadership in Action". The program also includes featured speakers, the arts, embodiment and awareness exercises, World Cafe conversations, and opportunities for networking and self-organized learning within an international program community.

Strategies and Skills for Consulting, Coaching and Change: Edith/Charles Seashore

Dates: 06-30-2008 to 07-04-2008
Registration Deadline: 06-27-2008
Location: Eastham MA  USA
Sponsored by: Professional Learning Network, LLC
Contact Name: Laura DeMatteo
Contact Email: prolearn@optonline.net
Website: www.cape.org
Description:
The workshop uses conceptual input, self reflection and highly interactive exercises to learn about key concepts such as reframing, feedback, support, agency and self-efficacy within a systems context.

The Essence of Change by Edgar Schein, Ph.D.

Dates: 07-07-2008 to 07-11-2008
Registration Deadline: 07-04-2008
Location: Eastham, Cape Cod MA  USA
Sponsored by: Professional Learning Network, LLC
Contact Name: Laura DeMatteo
Contact Email: prolearn@optonline.net
Website: www.cape.org
Description:
This event is for both beginners who want to explore various aspects of the theory and practice of organizational learn, change and development and for more advanced researchers who want to explore a conceptual integration of individual and systems perspectives.

Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication

Dates: 07-09-2008 to 07-25-2008
Registration Deadline: 07-09-2008
Location: Portland OR  USA
Sponsored by: Intercultural Communication Institute
Contact Name: Janet Bennett
Contact Email: ici@intercultural.org
Website: intercultural.org/siic.php
Description:
Now in its 32nd year, the Summer Institute brings together leading trainers from around the world to offer over 40 state-of-the-art workshops for professionals. Topics include diversity, management consulting, global leadership, coaching, and conflict resolution.

Wizard, Warrior, and Leading with Soul by Lee Bolman, Ph.D.

Dates: 07-14-2008 to 07-18-2008
Registration Deadline: 07-11-2008
Location: Eastham, Cape Cod MA  USA
Sponsored by: Professional Learning Network, LLC
Contact Name: Laura DeMatteo
Contact Email: prolearn@optonline.net
Website: www.cape.org
Description:
Because leadership is hard, we are often disappointed in our leaders and disappointed in or own ability to lead. The course will examine why this is and what we can do about it. We expect to come away with new ideas, new knowledge of ourselves, and new possibilities for leadership. Dr. Bolman will use ideas, research and examples from several of his books, but his goal is dialogue and exploration, augmented by video, personal reflection and group activities.

A New Model of Organization Effectiveness by Christopher Worley, Ph.D.

Dates: 07-28-2008 to 08-01-2008
Registration Deadline: 07-25-2008
Location: Eastham, Cape Cod MA  USA
Sponsored by: Professional Learning Network, LLC
Contact Name: Laura DeMatteo
Contact Email: prolearn@optonline.net
Website: www.cape.org
Description:
Most models of organization design and change are over 100 years old. This workshop will present and explore a different approach called the Built to Change model. It assumes that organizations are changing all the time. Exploring these ideas and their implications are the subject of this event.

The Facilitative Leader by Roger Schwarz, Ph.D.

Dates: 08-04-2008 to 08-08-2008
Registration Deadline: 08-01-2008
Location: Eastham, Cape Cod MA  USA
Sponsored by: Professional Learning Network, LLC
Contact Name: Laura DeMatteo
Contact Email: prolearn@optonline.net
Website: www.cape.org
Description:
This course provides a solid foundation in the Facilitative Leader approach, an approach to helping individuals, groups and organizations become more effective. It is designed if you work with others and have a stake in the outcomes.

Multiculturalism, Intersubjectivity, and Work in Professional Roles by R. Josselson, Ph.D. and J. Triest, Ph.D.

Dates: 08-18-2008 to 08-22-2008
Registration Deadline: 08-15-2008
Location: Eastham, Cape Cod MA  USA
Sponsored by: Professional Learning Network, LLC
Contact Name: Laura DeMatteo
Contact Email: prolearn@optonline.net
Website: www.cape.org
Description:
This workshop will offer both didactic and experiential modes the opportunity to reflect on experiences in professional roles. Participants will learn about their perceptions of their own work environments in order to enlarge their capacity to be effective in their roles.

Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats®

Dates: 09-23-2008 to 09-24-2008
Registration Deadline: 09-08-2008
Location: Ottawa Ontario  Canada
Sponsored by: ODNOO / RDOOO
Contact Name: Lynda Curtin
Contact Email: info@LyndaCurtin.com
Website: http://www.odnoo.org
Description:
This two-day event is custom designed to meet the special needs of OD Practitioners— facilitation, coaching, negotiating, consulting... We will focus on how to use the tool to boost creative and innovative output as this is a key need in business and government today. Old ways are no longer working. The tool is in use around the world with great success. Global teams in particular find the tool to be great. It quickly includes each persons thinking in discussion, regardless of culture or language. Edward de Bono, recognized as the international authority on creative and innovative thinking, and creator of the tool, is currently number 40 on the list of the most influential global business thinkers. To discover who else is on the list go to www.Thinkers50.com. Clear your calendars now for Sept. 23-24 and plan to attend this special event. Register quickly in order to secure your spot. Our pricing is terrific! We are pleased to have one of only 25 Master Trainers in the world, Lynda Curtin, travel from Los Angeles to share her expertise with us. If you can’t attend you can arrange to bring Lynda to your organization by contacting her directly.

Global Organization Development Summit

Dates: 10-01-2008 to 10-04-2008
Registration Deadline: 06-30-2008
Location: Bangkok bangkok  Thailand
Sponsored by: Assumption University
Contact Name: Mohanakrishnan
Contact Email: krishnanonly@hotmail.com
Website: www.odsummitindia.org
Description:
Global Organization Development Summit (GODS) is conceived and launched in India in 2006, and the Asia OD NEtwork is also started in the same year. Subsequently, GODS 2007 is organized in China in Shenyang Province sponsored by Jianzhu University, Shenyang. This year it is sponsored by Assumption UNiversity, Bangkok, Thailand. The President of Asia OD Network: Mohanakrishnan Ramn and the Summit Chair: Dr Kitti