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2010

World Cafe: Post-Recession Employer-Employee Relationship

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

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

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: