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A Dialogue on Intervention and Consulting Issues
with Michael Mitchell

Overview

Join us in an evening of exploration into the most difficult issues that we, as OD practitioners, face in our work. As a learning community, we will engage in a free-flowing dialogue to explore issues and share our experiences about our work. Through this exploration, we can provide each other with solutions, new perspectives, and support to help us manage difficult issues in our work “in the trenches.”

We will form into small dialogue groups (4 or 5) to listen to, consult, and support each other around these difficult issues. Our plan is to get the dialogue started and then let each small group dialogue develop on it’s own. We will come back together as a large group to share some of our issues and solutions so that everyone can hear and benefit from them.

Here are some initial questions that will be offered to help us begin our dialogue:

• What are your most difficult issues in working with organizations?
• How do you generate energy to make change happen?
• Where do you draw your strength, drive and encouragement?
• What is your strategy for making change "stick"?
• How do you know when the client is really the client?
• How do you help the client understand the difference between the presenting problem and the real problem?

We promise an engaging and provocative discussion and we hope you can join us. Michael Mitchell, PhD, will kick off the program and lead the large group dialogue.

Speaker

Michael is a senior consultant whose work focuses on helping organizations align business strategies with suppliers and customers, while improving value-based technical processes. Michael has a doctorate in industrial psychology from Purdue University, and is a contributor to his field in developing processes to make rapid, high return improvement in organization performance. Early in his career, he was the founder and corporate manager of organization development for Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation, working with diverse manufacturing and chemical process plants in many locations around the world. His later work has involved organization performance improvement in many industries and technologies. He has 35+ years of experience in the field.

Details

The Fairfield Inn & Suites
6100 SW Meadows Rd
Lake Oswego, OR 97035

Program is from 6:45 - 8:15 pm.

There is no restaurant on site. Food is allowed in the meeting room. There is also a good selection of restaurants and take out shops in the area.

Networking is encouraged, so come early -- say 6 PM -- for some delightful conversation with colleagues!

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