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When Your Colleague Could be a Bot – OD in the Time of Artificial Intelligence – June 17, 2020

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It has been estimated that the disruption of society by Artificial Intelligence (AI) – machines engineered to have human-like intelligence – is happening 10 times faster and at 300 times the scale of the industrial revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Today, thanks to AI, Siri answers our questions, Safety Sense 2.0 drives our Toyotas, Google Translate bridges cultures, and AlphaGo is the world champion of Go, a 2,500-year-old game with more move choices than the number of atoms in the observable universe.

Join Tom (and maybe an AI guest or two!) to explore:

  • What is AI?
  • What can it do?
  • How is it affecting the world of work?
  • What new challenges will the OD and HR professions face during this revolution?
  • How can AI empower employees, leaders, and HR/OD professionals?

About Tom
Tom Robertson, PhD, is an organizational and engineering consultant specializing in harmonizing human and artificial intelligence. He has been an AI researcher, an aerospace executive, and a consultant in OD. An international speaker and teacher, he has presented in a dozen countries and has served as visiting faculty at Écoles des Mines d’Ales in France and Portland State University.

Details
Date:  Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Time:  Noon to 1:30 pm
Location:  Virtual via Zoom
Cost:  $5 for ODN Oregon members and partner organizations (ATD, PHRMA); $10 Others
Register:  Online on Eventbrite. Limited to 100 participants. Online registration available til 8 am the morning of the event. An email will be sent that morning with instructions on how to log in.

MindShare – June 4, 2020

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Our monthly Mastermind meeting has been going on since last spring and has become a rich environment for sharing professional experiences and challenges. Due to Covid-19, instead of in-person, our recent meetings have been done via Zoom and went very well.

With our new normal, for the foreseeable future, these meetings will now be held online. They'll be called "Mind Share" not "Mastermind." No pre-existing expertise required - come and share your mind! We'll meet twice a month on the first and third Thursdays.

Date:  Thursday, June 4, 2020
Time:  4 - 5:30 pm
Location:  Virtual via Zoom. Please sign in early to make sure your audio and video equipment are ready to go. There is no technical support for virtual meetings.
Cost:  Free to all.
Register:  Click here to register on Zoom. If you register early, you may need to re-register the day of the event. Space limited to 100.

MindShare – May 21, 2020

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Our monthly Mastermind meeting has been going on since last spring and has become a rich environment for sharing professional experiences and challenges. Due to Covid-19, instead of in-person, our meetings in March and April were done via Zoom and went very well.

With our new normal, for the foreseeable future, these meetings will now be held online. They'll be called "Mind Share" not "Mastermind." No pre-existing expertise required - come and share your mind! We'll meet twice a month on the first and third Thursdays.

Date:  Thursday, May 21, 2020
Time:  4 - 5:30 pm
Location:  Virtual via Zoom. Please sign in early to make sure your audio and video equipment are ready to go. There is no technical support for virtual meetings.
Cost:  Free to all.
Register:  Click here to register on Zoom. If you register early, you may need to re-register the day of the event. Space limited to 100.

Quit Calling them Webinars and a Dozen other Biz Model Strategies with Roger Courville – May 19, 2020

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Webinars, webcasts, virtual presentations. Whatever you call them, speakers have a big problem: Prospective buyers are as (or more!) confused about how to buy your virtual services as you are in selling them.

Here’s the good news: It’s not only possible to make money with webinars, you’re going to learn from the world’s first-ever speaker to make a million dollars doing it.

Attend this session to learn:

  • The unspoken objection you will ALWAYS face and how to overcome it
  • 2 things that must change in your contracts (if you want more money, that is)
  • The single greatest key to messaging that will differentiate your offer
  • 3 ways to make more revenue per client
  • The difference between webinars, webcasts, virtual classrooms, and hybrid events
  • When you should – and shouldn’t – consider virtual presentations for client engagements

About Roger
Roger Courville, CSP has been called “The Michael Jordan of Virtual Presentations.” He’s an award-winning speaker and author who brings evidence-based tactics to transforming boring webinars. His work includes working with organizations as diverse as FedEx, Australia Institute of Training and Development, American Management Association, US Bank and, of course, ODN. And he loves habaneros.

Details
Date:  Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Time:  4 - 5:30 pm
Location:  Virtual via Zoom.
Cost:  $5 for ODN Members and Partner Organizations (ATD, PHRMA); $10 Others
Register:  Click here to register on Eventbrite.  Registration available online until 8 an on May 19. Instructions on how to log in to Zoom will be sent the morning of the event. Only those who have registered will have access. Limited to 100.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes: Turning to Face the Strange – May 13, 2020

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Change is not only strange, as we are experiencing in this season of COVID-19, but it is also a natural part of life. How do we adapt to change? How do we find stability within it?

Using a fast-moving, highly visual format, we will take a look at a few theories of change, including Gestalt, appreciative inquiry, human systems dynamics, and Bridges transitions.

Come ready to learn and share about how these models impact our choices in life and professional practice. What are some positive and unexpected results of each particular lens?

And, we'd like to thank our facilitators for sharing their time and expertise:

  • Sabine Amend
  • Tim Eannarino
  • Helen Spector
  • Dimitra Giannakoulias

Details
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Time: 4pm - 5:30pm (Pacific)
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free to all
Register: Click here to register on Zoom. Space limited to 100.

MindShare – May 7, 2020

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Our monthly Mastermind meeting has been going on since last spring and has become a rich environment for sharing professional experiences and challenges. Due to Covid-19, instead of in-person, our meetings in March and April were done via Zoom and went very well.

With our new normal, for the foreseeable future, these meetings will now be held online. They'll be called "Mind Share" not "Mastermind." No pre-existing expertise required - come and share your mind! We'll meet twice a month on the first and third Thursdays.

Date:  Thursday, May 7, 2020
Time:  4 - 5:30 pm
Location:  Virtual via Zoom. Please sign in early to make sure your audio and video equipment are ready to go. There is no technical support for virtual meetings.
Cost:  Free to all.
Register:  Click here to register on Zoom. If you register early, you may need to re-register the day of the event. Space limited to 100.