TODN Bulletin Board

Talent – On The Brink?
Friday, September 26th - 8:30-10:30 AM

Recently returned from Los Angeles, Richard Jordan is leading an interactive discussion on Talent Acquisition and Talent Management based on his work most recently in CA and in the UK, and on the gathering ‘perfect storm’.

Richard Jordan is known for leading successful change, building and leading high-performing teams and for sourcing, securing and strengthening scarce global talent in Europe, North America and Africa.

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Vickie Bevenour  or Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-493-5424).

The North Carolina State University Business Coaching Certificate Program is a 10-month program that follows the International Coach Federation curriculum guidelines for the coach specific training you’ll need for certification as a professional coach with the International Coach Federation.

As an ICF-approved Coach Training Program, graduates of this program are now able to apply directly for the ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC) and Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credentials, bypassing the portfolio path. This program brings together a highly competent and effective faculty that includes credentialed and certified pro- fessional coaches and alumni. Led by Sackeena Gordon-Jones (PCC) and Matthew Kersey (ACC), the weekend sessions are highly interactive, with group discussion, peer coaching, coaching supervision, along with great meals and camaraderie. This program is unique in that it facilitates the development of coaching skills, as well as personal development. In addition, you will be matched with a professional coach as your mentor.

For more information, please see the announcement below:

Changing Results? TAPPING on Money, Weight, Body Image, Stress Relief, and Pain  -  Friday, August 22th - 8:30-10:30 AM

What happens when you follow a route to changing your attitude, approach, and belief systems about money, weight, body image, stress relief, and pain? This interactive session features coaching models from Margaret M. Lynch, author of Tapping Into Wealth, a groundbreaking program for increasing your income.  Also featured will be models from Jessica Ortner, author of The Tapping Solution for Weight Loss and Body Image. NOTE: Tapping is also powerful in relieving stress and pain, clearing traumas, and bringing healing.
 
Mary Charles Blakebrough, a career coach and MBTI® Certified Master Practitioner, is in the EFT Practitioner Certification program at EFT University. Mary Charles is actively seeking 50 people interested in exploring how Tapping can work in their lives as part of her certification.

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Vickie Bevenour  or Mary Charles Blakebrough ( 919-493-5424).

Change SIG Bookathon - Bring a HIGH-IMPACT Book / eBook to Share
So many books are impacting us personally and professionally that we are devoting a meeting to those books that we have discovered recently or old faithfuls that have come to light. Bring a book/ebook to share and/or listen to the latest and greatest 'collective wisdom' at our first annual Change SIG Bookathon.
25 July 2014 - 8:30-10:30 AM
Change SIG co-chairs Vickie Bevenour and Mary Charles Blakebrough will facilitate.

Contact them for more information, Vickie Bevenour  or Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-493-5424).

Friday, May 30th - 8:30-10:30 AM

Hope Hills will bring more about the Interpersonal Flexibility Circle (IFC), starting briefly with the basic tenets, she will show us how she uses it in coaching and consultation.  So think of some situations that you would like to work through in the group.  This could be a one to one relationship, or planning for a meeting!

She will also discuss how she uses the IFC approach in her Lifeline process and show how the IFC approach actually EXPLAINS why some other theories work, as it is interactional, not just an assessment of one person.  Her instrument that looks at interpersonal flexibility for individuals, dyads, 360 processes, and teams, is now available in beta form.  She invites you to take it. (Sign up for it with your name and e-mail address.)

She will be asking us for feedback about how to set up a successful certification program for the Circle and the Lifeline. Please think about (and maybe list with website addresses) the certification processes that YOU have attended that YOU liked the best. How were they organized? What was the support like after the process?

Hope I. Hills, Ph.D., is the founder and president of Circle Consulting Group, LLC. A psychologist since 1986, and a Leadership and Organizational consultant since 1991, she brings a breadth and depth of experience to her work with leaders and their organizations. She has actually coached 24 CEOs/Presidents and many of their teams.

Throughout her years as a psychologist, Hope has applied solid psychological theory to real life issues. Her work researching and utilizing the Interpersonal Circle is extensive and has created a solid, actionable model that she uses to help individuals, teams and organizations become more effective.

For more information, contact SIG leaders, Vickie Bevenour  or Mary Charles Blakebrough ( 919-493-5424).

• Get a review of action research concepts and applications
• An outline of the history of OD and its connection to the concept of action research
• A discussion of how diagnostic and dialogic approaches to OD share commonalities and are clearly different in concept
• A survey of techniques utilized in the new OD, and a framework for the new action research

An Invitation to Co-Create Academic/Practitioner Partnerships in the Triangle

 Julie Mitchell will facilitate inquiry into how we may embrace multiple perspectives and leverage both "academic" and "practitioner" talent to advance best leadership and organizational development practices.

 The Research Triangle area is rich with universities, institutes and scholars grounded in organizational behavior theory and related academic disciplines. We are also home to corporations, start-ups and evolving, global organizations recognized for innovation.

Universities, corporations, state government and other organizations seek expertise from consultants and coaches able to identify and integrate proven best practices while anticipating or responding to change. Increasingly, wise decision makers seek collaborative, "both/and" perspectives, instead of falling into traditional camps, i.e., choosing similarly trained "theoretically-grounded" or "real world experienced" experts.

 Julie Mitchell has successfully bridged the academic/practitioner divide since 1981. She will engage us in a conversation free from limiting assumptions about what various perspectives may bring to organizations and leadership development. We will explore how words create our world and how inclusive, collaborative language allows for identifying and celebrating common ground and goals.

Location: Quintiles Bradford Building
5927 S. Miami Blvd
Morrisville, NC 27560

Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.

Please RSVP to marybeth@positivechange.org