Our twice-monthly MindShare meetings provide participants a rich environment for sharing professional experiences and challenges. This gathering of seasoned consultants and seekers, internal and external helpers and managers forms the core of how we support each other in building our community of practice across change disciplines and career situations.

People trade ideas and learnings with each other as we focus on the challenges individuals bring to the table. Coaching, mentoring, introducing different perspectives and reframes, all play their role in making these gatherings exciting and beneficial to all who come.

Hearing each other’s stories and different voices energizes us and builds relationships that extend beyond the “room.” Please join us on the first and third Thursdays of each month. All are welcome!

Date:  Thursday, February 18, 2021
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.

Vantage Point Organizational Health Assessment Training for Certification

This 2 x 2-hour online training is an important step in the Vantage Point certification process. To take this training, you need to submit an application for review by Vantage Point faculty first.

Details on Vantage Point and the certification process are available here. The application form can be accessed here.

Training Goals
The overall training goal is building your professional readiness to use Vantage Point, with some support and supervision, in a real client project. Specifically, the training objectives are to prepare you to:

• Articulate the relevance and role of organizational health for performance
• Advise clients on effective and ethical use of the Vantage Point assessment
• Explain the methodology underpinning the Vantage Point survey
• Analyze and make meaning from Vantage Point survey results
• Share results with a client in a manner that nurtures trust and commitment to action
• Build on Vantage Point results to prioritize and scope interventions
• Use Vantage Point as a data point in evaluating progress and change in the organization
• Take your next steps in your certification process.

Training Content

Session 1: Understanding Vantage Point and Contracting with the Client

• Rationales for assessing organizational health
• Five elements of organizational health
• Vantage Point tool history, validity, methodology
• Ethical considerations when using Vantage Point
• Client contracting process
• Vantage Point data analytics platform

Session 2: Giving Client Feedback on Assessment Results and Designing Action Steps

• Data analysis and pattern-discovery
• Sharing results with the client
• Potential pitfalls
• Co-designing actions with the client
• Evaluating client change and progress
• Preparing your next steps in the certification process

Vantage Point Faculty
Dr. Glen Fahs
Sabine Amend

The training mainly works towards developing these OD professional competencies:

Data Synthesizer

Understands and applies basic data gathering methodologies, including both qualitative and quantitative techniques (e.g., surveys, interview/focus groups, etc)

 

 

Culture Builder

Fosters commitment, equity, diversity, and engagement based on an environment of trust. Promotes the health and vitality of an organization to embody its mission, vision and values.

 

 

Details

Date: Friday, February 19, 2021 and Friday, February 26, 2021
Time: 1 - 3 pm PST on both Fridays
Format: Interactive live facilitated Zoom online sessions with some pre-work for each session.
The group size is limited to 16 participants.
Cost (includes both sessions): $ 125 for ODN Oregon Members. $ 250 for non-members. Free for approved active CCP volunteers.
Register:  Through Eventbrite. Online registration available until 8 am on February 16.

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Details

Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Time: 4 - 5:30 pm PST
Location: Virtual via Zoom. Log in instructions sent out to registrants the day of the event. Please note that there is no technical support for this event. Check your audio and video prior to joining the meeting.
Cost:  $10 Chapter members and Partner Organizations (ATD, ICF, PHRMA); $25 others.
Register:  Through Eventbrite. Online registration available until noon the day of the event. Limited to 100 participants.

This program may be recorded. If so, a link to the video will be sent out to registrants only.

Our twice-monthly MindShare meetings provide participants a rich environment for sharing professional experiences and challenges. This gathering of seasoned consultants and seekers, internal and external helpers and managers forms the core of how we support each other in building our community of practice across change disciplines and career situations.

People trade ideas and learnings with each other as we focus on the challenges individuals bring to the table. Coaching, mentoring, introducing different perspectives and reframes, all play their role in making these gatherings exciting and beneficial to all who come.

Hearing each other’s stories and different voices energizes us and builds relationships that extend beyond the “room.” Please join us on the first and third Thursdays of each month. All are welcome!

Date:  Thursday, February 4, 2021
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.

• How can assessing Organizational Health and Vitality help OD practitioners engage clients in making positive changes?
• What do you and your clients know about the critical links between organizational health and performance?
• Did you know that organizational health can be measured by assessing specific capabilities in organizations?
• What is one of ODN Oregon’s best-kept secrets for organizational health?

Find out more during our informative and interactive session. We will:

• define key elements in organizational health and explain how they interact with performance
• explore ways in which small and large, non-profit and for-profit organizations can assess organizational health
• unveil one of ODN Oregon’s best-kept secrets: Vantage Point, ODN Oregon’s organization health assessment tool
• link assessments with making positive change.

The session will be co-facilitated by Dr. Glen Fahs and Sabine Amend, currently the ODN Working Group Vantage Point.

The training mainly works towards developing these OD professional competencies:

Data Synthesizer

Understands and applies basic data gathering methodologies, including both qualitative and quantitative techniques (e.g., surveys, interview/focus groups, etc)

 

 

Culture Builder

• Fosters commitment, equity, diversity, and engagement based on an environment of trust
• Promotes the health and vitality of an organization to embody its mission, vision and values

 

Details

Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Time: 4-5:15 pm
Location: Virtual via Zoom. Instructions on how to log in will be sent out to all registrants the day of the event. Please note that there is no technical support for this event. Please check your audio and video prior to joining the meeting.
Cost: OODN Chapter Members and Partner Organizations (ATD, PHRMA):$10; All others: $15
Register: Through Eventbrite. Online registration available until 8 am the morning of the event. Limited to 100 participants.

This event may be recorded. If so, it will be made available via link to anyone who registered. The recording is not available to the general public.