Conference Agenda Overview

July 15-19, 1999
Pajaro Dunes, California

updated:  April 13, 2004 04:11 PM

MSOD Alumni Conference OD2000: The Challenge of Designing our Future

July 15-18, 1999 Pajaro Dunes, California

  Thursday, July 15, 1999
3:00 pm Registration Begins
5:30-7:30 Reception and Dinner
7:30-10:00 Opening Community Session
Welcome and Introductions
The MSOD Journey: Building our Collective History
   
   
  Friday, July 16, 1999
7-8:00 am breakfast
8:00-8:30
Community Session
Introductions, logistics
Lenny Lind: A Brief Introduction to "Council" Technology for use during our conference
8:30-9:45
Kirby Dyess, Intel's Vice-President of New Business Development
on issues and trends emerging for fast-moving, innovative companies.
10-11:15
Dick Beckhard
Journey into Inquiry: It's About Asking the Right Questions.
11:15-11:45
RealTime Agenda Design
Identifying and scheduling the emergent sessions on questions or topics that capture your interest.
11:45-1 pm Lunch
   
1 pm -2:30
Learning Sessions I
Brinkman and Otto, Navigating the Change Cycle
Bayless and Stetson-Rodriquez, Globalization Issues for OD Practitioners
Laxdal and Patchett, Managing Government: It's Not an Oxymoron
Stuart, The Consultant's Balancing Act: Serving Ourselves and Others from a State of G.R.A.C.E.
Jacobs and Watson, OD in the Land of Viagra
2:45-4:15 pm
Learning Sessions II
Work, Tools for Collaboration Across Time, Distance and Organizational Boundaries.
Cherbeneau, Lifting the Spirit, Not Breaking It: Emotional Intelligence and "Join-Up" in the Workplace.
Lahl and Feyerherm, Expanding our Beliefs about Leadership
Black, Talking Talent: to Make Smart Picks
Angus, Henley, Ross and Swain Great Groups, Organization Genius: Producing Extraordinary Results with Groups
4:30-5:30 RealTime Learning Sessions I
5:30-6:30 Free time
6:30-8 Dinner
8-9:30
Fireside Chat
With Bob Tannenbaum, Tony Petrella, Dick Beckhard, and Jeanne Cherbeneau.
Facilitated by Ann Feyerherm, Pat Williams.
   
  Saturday, July 17, 1999
7 -8:00 am breakfast
8-8:20 am Community Session
8:30-10 am
Learning Sessions III
Vogen and Cary, Intel's Efforts to Drive Organization Change Worldwide
Gage, Conducting a Change-Readiness Assessment
Anderson, C., The Role of Forgiveness in Organization Change
Herman, Re-Inventing OD for 2001
Reierson, Leadership Behavior: Alternatives and Consequences
10:15-11:45
Learning Sessions IV
Bennett, A collaborative Design Process to Link 100 Public Schools in the Bay Area
Bergevin and Donlevy, OD as a Credible Partner in ERP
Anderson, M., Learning Fields: Engines for the Learning Organization
Benson, The 21st Century Village: Connectivity within the Next Millennium
Worley and Hitchin, Strategic Change and Complexity: How OD Fits
11:45-1:15 pm Lunch
   
1:15-2:45 pm
Learning Sessions V
Savage, Leading Strategic Change: A model of leading successful strategic change sythesized from 10 CEOs.
Sullivan, Whole System Transformation: Facilitating Large Group Interventions
Hammer, From Start-Up to Success: Big Lessons from Small Business.
Pope, Assessing Team and Organization Effectiveness: A Diagnostic Tool
Strachan and Brooks, Managing Professionals in Organizations
3:00-4:15
Community Session: Peter Koestenbaum
on Building Leadership Capacity into the 21st Century
4:30-5:30 RealTime Learning Sessions II
5:30-6:30 Free Time
  6:30-10:00 Dinner, Party and Bonfire
   
  Sunday, July 18, 1999
8-10 am brunch
10:15-11:15
Community Session
Our Questions: Synthesis and Integration of our questions, and discussions about next steps
11:30-12:30 Closing Community Session

 

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