*Registration for this cohort (set of sessions) is closed. Please join the Waitlist for notification of future cohorts.
Session Description:
Organization Development practitioners often speak about honing self-as-instrument as a key factor in recognizing the effects of a consultants implicit bias on their client.
In this 14-week Diversity & Inclusion offering, you will have the opportunity to hone your self-as-instrument using an audio documentary and quarterly Diversity Chats with professional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practitioners. This program is open to full-time Organization Development practitioners and Human Resource Executives. It is a deep dive into facilitating racial dialog. Participants should plan to attend all sessions in the series as each meeting builds on the content of the last. Study is required between meetings. Seats are limited to eight in order to maintain an atmosphere where participants may lean into brave conversation.
This program uses a learning group format. As a learning group, you will have the opportunity to explore the construction of race in America using a Peabody-nominated fourteen-part audio documentary series.
While this program has limited registration, a waiting list is enabled. Adding additional sessions is under consideration.
This program uses a learning group format. As a learning group you will have the opportunity to explore the construction of race in America using a Peabody-nominated fourteen-part audio documentary series.
While this program has limited registration, a waiting list is enabled Adding additional sessions is under consideration.
Take-aways:
Diversity Chats is hosted by Jen Todd, CEO of Breakthrough Partners Inc. Website: www.breakthroughpartner.com
This program is offered on Thursday afternoons 1-2:30 PM EST (10 AM PST) March 25th- September 30th.
About the Facilitator:
Jen Todd, MSOD is a self-as-instrument coach, consultant, and the CEO of Breakthrough Partners Inc. Her Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) work centers on dialogic work with schools and with C-suite executives. Among her specialties are teaching metropolitan systems to engage interracial families and the modern family unit in culturally competent ways.
#diversity, #inclusion, #equity, #improvement, #learning, #performance, #instructionalDesign #ISPI #ISPISoCal
ISPI SoCal Presents
Virtual GEMS RoundTable: an ISPI SoCal Community of Practice: The Competent Manager: A Model for Effective Performance
The Competenct Manager: A Model for Effective Performance
Max Cropper will be our RoundTable facilitator.
To benefit most, download and copy the article (in the blue link) for your use during the session.
The RoundTable is an exciting approach that stimulates incredible conversation and insight around the topics and trends impacting our discipline.
We will read the selected piece aloud together for about 15 minutes. Then for the next 45 minutes, we offer everyone in attendance equal time to share their thoughts and experiences on or around the topic. Come explore with us!
The GEMS RoundTable format is provided by Sue Gabriele, President and Owner, Gabriele Educational Materials and Systems.
Website: www.gemslearning.net Email: sgabriele@gemslearning.net
ISPI SoCal Presents Harnessing Change: Agile Methods in Instructional Design with Megan Torrance
Megan Torrance
In this session we will start with a quick definition of Agile and its use within the L&D space, then spend most of our time exploring how L&D teams that use Agile handle constant change, build relationships and get the job done. Specifically you will learn how:
Description
The software industry is embracing Agile project management and there is much that we in learning & development can learn from them. Whether you’re using SAM, LLAMA®, Scrum or still exploring your options, there’s a lot to be learned from Agile teams in the ways that they manage their relationships and communications with the business in order to deliver their work on time, in budge and in line with expectations – even as those expectations evolve throughout the project.
Agile provides a framework for adapting to change as it happens and working with the project sponsor to deliver what’s most needed by learners. In a rapidly changing environment, the Agile mindset helps us harness change for good (instead of resisting it) and Agile techniques offer solutions for making constant change a practical reality. Rapid iterative cycles of design & evaluation allow us to test our solutions before full implementation, opening the doors to constructive change along the way.
And yet, software development projects face different challenges and have different needs than instructional design projects. A strict implementation of Agile methods may not apply to your L&D work. What can we borrow from this useful mindset and approach, and what do we need to shape specifically for an instructional or learning experience type of project?
About the Speaker
Megan Torrance is CEO and founder of TorranceLearning, which helps organizations connect learning strategy to design, development, data and ultimately performance. Megan has over 25 years of experience in learning design, deployment and consulting. Megan and the TorranceLearning team are passionate about sharing what works in learning so they devote considerable time to teaching and sharing about Agile project management for learning experience design and the xAPI.
She is the author of Agile for Instructional Designers, The Quick Guide to LLAMA, and Making Sense of xAPI. Megan is also an eCornell Facilitator in the Women's Executive Leadership curriculum.
#improvement, #learning, #performance, #instructionalDesign #ISPI #ISPISoCal
Fireside Chat with Fred A. Miller
The Path to an Inclusive Organizations
Frederick A. Miller, CEO of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.
In this live session, we will learn from author and strategist Fred A. Miller on how to develop an inclusive organization. Pulling from his experience as the CEO of the oldest DEI consulting firm in the nation, Fred will share the path from a judging organization that can transition to one that is joining and high performing.
Please download his recent article, The Path to High Performing Inclusive Organizations, that will be part of this learning opportunity.
About the Author:
As CEO and Lead Strategist of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group, Inc.—named one of Consulting magazine’s “Seven Small Jewels” in 2010—Frederick A. Miller specializes in developing workforce utilization strategies that accelerate results to deliver higher individual, team, and organizational performance. A pioneering change agent and thought leader in the field of organization development, he has led transformative change interventions in Fortune 50 corporations, large not-for-profit organizations, and government agencies throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia, including Merck, Allstate, United Airlines, Toyota, Sandia National Laboratories, EILEEN FISHER, Northeast Utilities, Singapore Telecom, the McArthur Foundation, the City of San Diego, and many others.
His experience includes partnering with organizations to accelerate growth, enhance bottom-line results, and work through turnaround situations, as well as positioning leaders for success in start-ups, entrepreneurial ventures, and transitioning from founder-led companies to the next generation of leadership. In the 1970’s, as a manager and then officer with Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (now CIGNA), he helped pioneer one of the nation’s first corporate diversity and inclusion efforts.
Author of more than 100 articles in journals such as The OD Practitioner, HR Professional, Chief Learning Officer, and Executive Excellence, Fred was managing editor of the classic The Promise of Diversity, and co-author, with Judith H. Katz, of The Inclusion Breakthrough: Unleashing the Real Power of Diversity, Be BIG: Step Up, Step Out, Be Bold, Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration: 4 Keys that Change EVERYTHING, and Safe Enough to Soar: Accelerating Trust, Inclusion & Collaboration in the Workplace.
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