October ODNC Suburban Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
Agenda:  6:30 - Social and networking; 7 pm - Meeting begins
Cost:  Free to members, $15 to nonmembers

Speaker: Karen Armstrong has been a long time OD practitioner in Chicago’s leading companies.

Topic:  Emotional Intelligence
During this evening we will explore the keys to maximizing capacity to create and sustain authentic professional relationships. OD practitioners will learn what it takes to develop leadership qualities that enhance collaboration, commitment and effectiveness for fulfillment of mission and purpose. We will discuss and apply the attributes of emotional intelligence.

Location:  Accounting Training Room, 800 Commerce Drive, Oak Brook, Illinois

Directions
From 22nd street you go North on McDonald's drive right next to the McDonalds Plaza building right on 22nd street just East of Oak Brook mall. Turn right on Commerce drive( East). Go all the way to the 800 building and enter from the East entrance-  that's the front of the building and where the security desk is.  The Accounting training room is to your left as you enter the building.

October ODN/C Downtown Monthly Meeting
Thursday, October 24, 2002

Where:  Harris Bank, 111. W. Monroe, 20th Floor, (20C), Chicago
Agenda:  6 to 7 pm, Open Space; 7 to 9 pm, Program
Cost:  Free to members, $15 for Nonmembers
RSVP:  Unnecessary

Topic:  Crossing the Measurement Barrier
Speaker:  Ames Adjai

Have you ever floundered when asked to make the "business case" for an OD intervention; or when you were asked to "measure" your results?  "Numbers people" like CIOs and finance professionals, and "concept people" like CEOs and OD professionals do not always communicate well with each other when it comes to outcomes and judging success of interventions because each uses a totally different thought process and, literally, a different language. 

Tonight we (concept OD people) have an opportunity to get in the room with the "other" (CIO, finance person) and discover whether we can make him/her happy. Together we will determine if we can develop a language we can use to justify our work to CIOs and finance by giving them the metrics they want, and if so, what is the language and what are the measurements?

Don't expect this to be easy, but do expect it to be worthwhile. Not only will we walk away tonight with a better sense of what "measurable" means to a finance person and how we can successfully justify our case, we will also be able to watch our coping skills in action. For those of us who are astute, we will transfer this information about ourselves to what we need others to have and develop.

Ames Adjai has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Philosophy from Williams College. He works with CIOs of large companies in Finance and Statistics. Ames' consulting practice focuses on resistance within organizations to communication and measurement requests by CIOs. He has a thoughtful, integrative, multidisciplinary framework for developing language for creating and justifying proposals with measurable outcomes.