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High
Speed OD …
Cutting Edge Tools, Techniques & Theories
For
Today’s Practitioners & Organizations
 he 2002 MSOD Alumni
Conference is coming October 24-27 to beautiful Lake Tahoe on the
California-Nevada border. The
conference will provide an opportunity for us to share the latest in what’s
happening in our organizations and practices.
As MSOD alumni, we have a lot to offer... we want to encourage you to
contribute to making this conference a success by sharing your recent work and
innovations.
As a participant in the
conference you can expect to:
- Build
professional skills
- Add
to your tool kit
- Dialogue
with a CEO on how OD delivers value and ways it falls short
- Hear
from practitioners about their cutting edge work
- Discuss
and gain insight into meeting the demands of today’s organizations
- Learn
how to bring greater value to your workplace and clients
- Keep
your MSOD degree alive
- Re-connect
with old friends and make new ones
And of course, do all of
it in MSOD style!
As a presenter you have
the opportunity to share your work with seasoned professionals, try out a new
idea in a friendly environment, or make your debut as a conference presenter!
The design process is underway and the design committee is accepting
proposals now (see below for more information)!
As the pace of change has
increased, there has been plenty of discussion in OD circles about expecting
discovery, feedback and implementation of a major intervention in six weeks
instead of six months. Our
reactions to this expectation range from a “let’s get it done”
acceptance to “are these guys crazy”?
Nevertheless, these are the demands of today’s organizations.
How can we learn to work more effectively and add value in an
ever-changing, rapid, and chaotic world?
Join us to explore specific solutions that will increase our
effectiveness and responsiveness while maintaining the integrity of the work
itself.
Request for Proposals
The conference will
feature many of our favorite friends of the program, faculty members, and
other guest speakers. However, this is an alumni conference and
we’ll be relying on alumni presenters for the majority of the program.
We’re expecting to have a total of 40 or more alumni share their work
in a variety of ways. The conference will allow presenters to choose from
three different formats to share their work:
Poster Sessions
– This format is designed to
showcase your material in an informal, low-risk manner.
The presenter creates a visual display of their work on a portable tack
board (provided at the conference). A
group of presenters will have their work displayed in one central location
during specific break periods. Presenters will share their info (usually
including some type of handout) with participants who stop by.
This is a good forum for individuals interested in sharing their work
in a way that allows for personal contact and does not require presenting more
formally in front of a group.
Briefings – During
briefing sessions, three to four alumni will present during a 75-minute
session. Each presenter prepares
a document that captures the essence of his or her work (anything from a
formal research paper to a summary of the work or project).
The conference committee will group presenters together based on common
subject matter. Each briefly
presents their material (in summarized form) in 15 to 20 minutes (usually with
key overheads/visuals). After all
the papers are presented, the moderator – an individual with expertise in
the subject matter – comments appreciatively on the work, both individually
and collectively, and facilitates a Q&A period with attendees.
Copies of presenters’ materials are made available to attendees.
Experiential
Sessions –
This format allows presenters to introduce material that that can be best
understood and appreciated through direct experience.
The standard length of these sessions will be 75 minutes; however, if
you should need more time, modifying the agenda may be possible.
As with the other formats, presenters should provide materials
containing background and framework information that would allow participants
to replicate a similar experience.
Do you have great work or
material you want to share that doesn’t fit neatly into one of the formats
above? Tell us about it. The
format isn’t as important as sharing your latest and greatest work with us!
Submitting
Proposals
The
process is easy. First, send us your idea in rough form.
All we need right now is a general session description, the preferred
format for your session (poster, briefing, concurrent/experiential), and a
little bit about yourself (background, current role, etc.). We will also need
to know how we can get in touch with you - email, phone, and address.
The
proposals will be reviewed and presenters will be selected based on the
relevance of the session/topic to the conference theme and to the practice of
OD. Selected presenters will
receive acceptance notification via email.
Once notified, presenters will have several weeks to develop a more
detailed proposal.
Timeline
for proposal submission/acceptance:
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email proposals to msodconference@yahoo.com.
As soon as possible--everything was due February 22, 2002, but we are
getting a late start sending out these reminders!
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presenters will be notified of
acceptance.
§
detailed proposals will be due
back to the design committee.
Jog
your brain for a while - but not too long – then send us your proposal!
Let’s
make this conference an incredible experience... the kind MSOD is known for.
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