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The Cost of a Great Workplace: 2005 Benchmark Research Findings

Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 5:37pm
Date: 
Sat, 12/03/2005 - 8:30am
Location: 

Benedictine University, Kindlon Hall, Room 164 (Get Directions)

Speaker: 
Brian Lowenthal
Fee: 
Members – Free, Guests – $15

The research of Robert Levering of the Great Place to Work Institute began in 1980 on the practices that lead to a great workplace. This has been the inspiration for numerous international, national, state, city, and industry recognition programs. The most familiar is Fortune Magazine's annual list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. Each of these recognition programs has the same intent: to benchmark companies who have deployed workplace practices that lead to higher levels of employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and profits.

Tuning Up: The OD Practitioner as Instrument

Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 5:48pm
Date: 
Sat, 10/01/2005 - 8:30am
Location: 

Benedictine University, Kindlon Hall, Room 164 (Get Directions)

Speaker: 
Christine Buss, Ph.D.
Fee: 
Members – Free, Guests – $15

Organization Development is one of those jobs, like dance or psychotherapy, where the person doing it and the way they do it, contribute mightily to the outcome.  Your conversations, interventions, and influence depend on the You that you bring to the job.  That means that your blind spots, your triggers, and your patterns, like a dancer's weak muscle or tendon, can be crippling.

But how do you become aware of your subtle, unconscious reactions?

IT Professionals as Organizational Citizens

Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 5:52pm
Date: 
Sat, 08/06/2005 - 8:30am
Location: 

Benedictine University, Kindlon Hall, Room 164 (Get Directions)

Speaker: 
Jo Ellen Moore, Ph.D.
Fee: 
Members – Free, Guests – $15

Are managers discouraging IT professionals from exhibiting citizenship behaviors the organization desperately needs?

Building an OD Toolkit Series: Role Mapping for a Change

Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 5:56pm
Date: 
Sat, 06/04/2005 - 8:30am
Location: 

Benedictine University, Kindlon Hall, Room 164 (Get Directions)

Speaker: 
General
Fee: 
Members – Free, Guests – $15

Does your toolkit need updating? As Tim Allen (Home Improvement) might say, "Hey, Welcome to Tool Time." Join us for the first program in our Building an OD Toolkit Series. Come prepared to explore the dynamics of Role Mapping. By applying Role Mapping to a change you are currently involved with (or anticipate being involved with in the near-future), you will gain an understanding of the mapping process and walk away with an informative perspective on your change. Role Maps aid in planning change and in change-related communications.

A Call to Action: Global Youth Empowerment Movement

Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 6:01pm
Date: 
Sat, 04/02/2005 - 8:30am
Location: 

Benedictine University, Kindlon Hall, Room 164 (Get Directions)

Speaker: 
Gary Goldman, M.A.
Fee: 
Members – Free, Guests – $15

Learn more about this historic youth movement with National and Global Mayors and cities that will tap the enormous power of youth in impacting communities and positive political, cultural and social change through youth-adult partnerships.

Gary Goldman will show how prototype urban and suburban cities are implementing this comprehensive cultural change process and discuss OD strategies for becoming a youth-centered community.

Getting Past Emotional UnemploymentSM: Helping Yourself and Others

Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 6:07pm
Date: 
Sat, 02/05/2005 - 8:30am
Location: 

Benedictine University, Kindlon Hall, Room 164 (Get Directions)

Speaker: 
Diane Wilson and Deborah Murphy
Fee: 
Members – Free, Guests – $15

Emotional UnemploymentSM is a term author, Diane Wilson, coined to describe what she saw so often sitting across from clients for almost 18 years. It's that ungrounded feeling from a lack of meaningful work. It comes with a sense of preoccupation, feeling unfocused, and lacking a sense of direction and inspiration. In essence, you can get stuck uncommitted to what you "should" be doing while mired in the longing for something better.