-
April 27, 2022: YOU Can Create Positive Change at Work!
Kimberly Barker
With high turnover rates ravaging the workforce and The Great Resignation underway, Kimberley Barker aims to change the narrative. Her recent book, 'YOU Can Create Positive Change at Work!' demonstrates that creating a positive work environment can only happen if employees are valued and shown they’re a necessary part of the team, department and organization.
"Despite the food of books on business leadership and about creating a positive and dynamic corporate culture — directed for the most part at decision-makers in the C-suite — too many employers still fall short of the mark," said Barker. "In our book, we offer suggestions filled with real-world examples, helpful ideas, life stories, and concrete ways that can change your workplace and your life."
ABOUT KIMBERLEY: Dr. Kimberly Barker has a passion for teaching, learning, OD, advocacy and planning for the FUTURE OF WORK. Dr. Barker is a full-time lecturer at Eastern Michigan University and a Scholar-Practitioner who assists those interested in 'living their best life at work'! She has five years of Human Resource experience, ten years of Commercial Banking, and 15 years of Hospital Administration experience. Her book is full of tools to transform your work life and YOU! It guides you on becoming the best version of yourself at work and in your life, with the goal of empowering you in positive business principles.
-
March 30, 2022: Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results
Jake Jacobs
People struggle with change. They complain it is hard, takes too long, and costs too much. All too often, it's also ineffective. Look at your own experience. Wouldn’t you jump at the chance to achieve results in your own work faster, easier and better?
It’d be great if there were a predictable way to make this happen.
There is. It’s called Leverage Change: 8 Ways to Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results.
These 8 smart, strategic actions, or levers, can be applied to any change, any time, any place. Use them and you’ll be on your way to getting more done with fewer headaches, hassles and problems. You can use the levers for everything from strategy implementation to culture change to mergers and acquisitions and leadership development.
This is a session where you’ll get real work done. Whether your change effort is straightforward or complex, involves only your own team or the whole organization, or is just beginning or well underway, your time with Jake will hit the mark. This presentation is really a consulting experience masquerading as a presentation. Using a unique "Rapid Response Consultation" approach, you’ll witness a real time roll up the sleeves demonstration of the power of applying the 8 Levers of Leverage Change.
You’ll also have your own opportunity to put these same strategies to work on any type of change on your plate.
Identify and address the most common problems in your current change work – and know how to do it when you recognize them in the future too.
Question your assumptions. Challenge your paradigm. Open your thinking.
You’ll leave with a fresh perspective on change that will transform the way you see and do change work forevermore. Faster, easier, better change is in your future. Join this session and see how.
-
March 23, 2022: Dealing with Burnout, Adversity and Trauma in Organizations
Kelly Clarke
Addressing burnout is top of mind for many organizational leaders, two years into the pandemic. Western culture, particularly US culture orients towards a preference for perseverance, pushing through, and staying busy. Post-traumatic growth research offers insights regarding how trauma experienced at the individual and personal level can be navigated through reflective practices to bring new understandings and discoveries that did not exist pre-adversity. Kelly will speak to practices that can be utilized by leaders and organization development practitioners to help their employees and teams during times of individual and collective adversity.
-
February 23, 2022: When Professional Identity Can Derail a Career: OD’s Role in Smoothing the Process
Nila Jennings
Professional Identities can be defined as a representation of one’s self, developed over time through cognitive, psychological and socialization processes. It is a relatively constant and unchanging set of values, attitudes, beliefs and norms. Over time, an individual begins to think, act, and feel like a professional in their field. For occupational professionals such as physicians, nurses, engineers, and teachers, their professional identity becomes stronger, as these individuals are required to participate in continuing education, obtain professional certifications, and ascribe to specific professional ethics.
Professional identities can be both an asset and a liability as they ensure specialization, expertise, and even stability, but they also create boundaries and barriers when facing career changes such as promotions, job redesign and second careers. Without sufficient individual and organizational support, the new role can leave the professional feeling incompetent, without autonomy, and demotivated, leading to lower engagement and performance.
In this presentation I will discuss how promotions, job redesign, and second careers are impacted by an employee's professional identity. We will also examine how OD practitioners and managers must employ both a micro (personal/psychological/social) and macro (organizational/structural) change management approach in helping employees navigate through career transitions which may be incompatible with their professional identity.
Bio
Nila Jennings is a second-year doctoral student at Bowling Green State University, in their Doctor of Organization Development and Change program. She is the owner and Chief Strategy Officer of Fusion Coaching and Consulting Group, Inc., a management consulting group that provides leadership and management development and training, strategic planning, executive coaching, and organization development services. She is a member of the International Coach Federation and a Professional Certified Coach, a Strategic Planning Professional, and a professional member of the National Speaker's Association. You can contact Nila at nila@fusionccg.com.
-
January 26, 2022: Writing for Publication
Joanne C. Preston
This presentation will take you through the steps of modifying and preparing any paper to send to any journal in the form and format that will at least go out to peer review instead of immediate return. The publication game is about persistence, being open to hard feedback and lots of rewriting. Come to this interactive session and learn more about what you need to do to be successful in the publication process.
-
December 29, 2021: Productively Working Through Impostor Syndrome
Emma Guthrie
Impostor syndrome, or "a psychological experience of intellectual fraudulence where one struggles to internalize successes, instead attributing personal accomplishments to chance, luck, or trickery" (Clance, 1985) has detrimental effects on individual performers, key support people, and the larger systems they learn, work, and live in. Impostor syndrome is caused by many factors, but perhaps the most common is low self-efficacy. Although we usually think of low self-efficacy and impostor feelings as "sadness, fear, worry, self-doubt, and a 'fake it till you make it' mentality," impostor feelings can also lead to frequent comparisons to others, sensitivity to constructive criticism, procrastination, working extra to cover up a perceived lack of competence, and extreme anxiety. Emma Guthrie has extensively studied impostor syndrome in graduate students across the disciplines for the past two years and will use findings from this study to provide strategies for working through impostor feelings, and uplifting today's thought leaders.
-
December 22, 2021: How a Polarity Lens Addresses Racism and Climate Change
Barry Johnson
Barry will speak to the benefits of using a Polarity Lens to address Racism and Climate Change. Barry will also engage participants by having them complete a polarity assessment of an organization of their choice. The focus will be on Stability And Change. We will be discussing aggregated results live at the Symposium.
-
October 27, 2021: Organizational Design: A View from the Consultants Chair
Amy Kates, Sara Watson, Julian Chender, and Joanna Hendrickson
Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing.
