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Living Human Systems & A Method to Organize the Chaos of Interaction

Submitted by clischalk on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 10:14pm
Date: 
Sat, 11/13/2010 - 8:30am
Location: 

Benedictine University, Kindlon Hall, Room 161

Speaker: 
Chetan Borkhetaria, M.B.A. and Verena Murphy, Ph.D.
Fee: 
SPECIAL No Fee - Everyone is asked to bring canned or packaged food donation for local food pantry

Dynamics of Interaction

Social interaction is a central part of our lives yet despite our 'people expertise', our attempts to be ourselves and get to know others is often so difficult! Interpersonal dynamics are the core of these social processes, but they are rarely well understood. The nature of the processes themselves are not excessively complex, but their effective application often proves challenging.

 

Learning Objectives

1) To be introduced briefly to the underpinning Theory of Living Human Systems

Building Adaptive Organizations

Submitted by clischalk on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 10:14pm
Date: 
Sat, 09/11/2010 - 8:30am
Location: 

Benedictine University, Kindlon Hall, Room 161

Speaker: 
Carolyn Hendrickson, Ph.D.
Fee: 
Members - No Charge. Guests - $15.00. Checks and Cash accepted.
 

Our September speaker, Dr. Carolyn Hendrickson, will cover what it means to be an adaptive organization, an assessment of your own organization, and some practical tools around alignment and conversation that leaders can use to make their organizations more adaptive.

World Cafe: Post-Recession Employer-Employee Relationship

Submitted by clischalk on Sat, 03/20/2010 - 2:46pm
Date: 
Sat, 05/08/2010 - 8:30am
Location: 

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

Speaker: 
Katharine Nathan & Gretchen Neve, Resilience Matters
Fee: 
Member - No Charge , Guest - $15.00 (cash or check accepted)

Join Katharine Nathan and Gretchen Neve in a World Café to make meaning with other professionals whose work is focused on the employee/employer relationship. Together we will explore questions that matter about where the world of work was, is, and create a vision for the future. We'll listen together for patterns, insights and deeper questions. You will walk away with new understanding, tools, and practices to support the journey from uncertainty to the “new normal.”
 

UNFEAR - Facing Change in an Era of Uncertainty

Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 1:28pm
Date: 
Sat, 03/13/2010 - 8:30am
Location: 

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

Speaker: 
Karlin Sloan
Fee: 
Members – Free, Non-Members – $15 (Cash or check accepted)

In every challenge there is an opportunity. "Unfear" challenges us to choose how we respond to our world. How do you adapt and relate to challenge, change, or transition? How can you turn mistakes or difficulties into positives? By the end of this session you'll know your own resilience attributes, and you'll have a plan to cultivate your own change -readiness with confidence and strength.

What You Can Learn from Aircraft Accident Investigation about Diagnosing and Solving Organizational Problems

Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/17/2009 - 1:44pm
Date: 
Sat, 01/09/2010 - 8:30am
Location: 

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

Speaker: 
Dr. Wayne Stone
Fee: 
Members – Free, Non-Members – $15 (Cash or Check accepted)

How often have you been watching the evening news and seen the same scenario play out amid flashing lights, crime scene tape, and aircraft parts scattered across a field. It's an aircraft accident and a reporter is asking an investigator what the cause of the accident was. The investigator doesn't really answer the question but instead tells the reporter the procedure that will be followed: