AN INTEGRAL APPROACH TO OD PRESENTED BY JOHN BAKER

Date:  February 3, 2005
Time:  5:00 – 5:30 Registration & Networking
5:30 – 7:30 Presentation
Cost: No cost for Members, $10 for Non-Members
Location: Childrens and Womens Health Centre, 4500 Oak Street, Vancouver
Teaching
Room KO-155 in the Ambulatory Care Building
Directions
at end of notice.

AN INTEGRAL APPROACH TO OD

Ever wonder if you’re missing something when working with your internal, or
external clients? Ever feel your efforts are under-appreciated or even resented?
Ever feel you’re having to correct the mistakes of previous interventions?
Or, feel like you’re arguing about the one best approach?

This workshop will present a leading edge model for integrating the practice
of organizational development.

See how your practice fits into a larger whole. Discern what’s missing in
your own practice. Learn how you may add depth to your practice. Distinguish
between what you are doing for your clients and what they think or feel about
what you’re doing.

Over years, as we refine and deepen our consulting expertise we often get
a nagging feeling that something is missing. Something, that if added, would
make our offerings to others more complete, more integral, more whole. While
it would be a mistake to attempt to be all things to all people, there are
things we can add to our approach to strengthen the value we add to our internal
and external clients. While much lip service is given to holistic approaches
to organizational development, very little work has been done on what constitutes
an holistic approach.

This workshop will examine a leading edge framework for approaching OD and
will provide you with an opportunity to use this integral framework to guide
your organizational development initiatives.

From the dictionary -

Integral: adjective

1. Essential or necessary for completeness; constituent: The kitchen is an
   integral part of a house.
2. Possessing everything essential; entire.
3. Mathematics
   1. Expressed or expressible as or in terms of integers.
   2. Expressed as or involving integrals.

noun

1. A complete unit; a whole.
2. (nt-grl) Mathematics
   1. A number computed by a limiting process in which the domain of a function,
      often an interval or planar region, is divided into arbitrarily small units,
      the value of the function at a point in each unit is multiplied by the
      linear or a real measurement of that unit, and all such products are summed.
   2. A definite integral.
   3. An indefinite integral.

   [Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin integrlis, making
   up a whole, from Latin integer, complete; see integer.]

   Presenter: John Baker

   John Baker has been a member of the Vancouver OD community for the last
   25 years. Employing a communications-based methodology, he is adept at moving
   groups from talking at each other to thinking together to achieve unprecedented
   results.

   His experience includes: Working with forest companies, local environment
   groups and government ministries to replace clear-cutting with ecologically
   and economically sustainable harvesting alternatives. Assisted the Vancouver
   Aquarium in the difficult decision to abandon the established practice of
   exhibiting killer whales while sustaining its financial success. In several
   large organizations, engaged union and management representatives in collaborative
   approaches to accomplish unprecedented reductions in the number of accidents
   in the workplace.

   John embraces a vision of work in which people, teams and organizations
   are freely and enthusiastically taking responsibility for the whole of which
   they are uniquely an autonomous part. This operating philosophy, called Responsible
   Freedom, shapes his approach to developing people, teams and organizations.

   Location:

   Directions to AMBULATORY CARE BUILDING teaching room KO-155

   • If you are driving on Oak Street toward Richmond from downtown Vancouver,
     please turn left at 28th Avenue at the large, yellow Children’s Emergency
     sign.
   • If you are driving on Oak Street toward downtown Vancouver from Richmond,
     please turn right at 28th Avenue at the large, yellow Children’s Emergency
     sign.
   • Enter grounds at parking booth on 28th Avenue. (Not at the entrance on
     Oak Street)
   • Please note as you are entering the grounds that the Ambulatory Care
     Building is the 4 storey building right in front of you.
   • Parking rates are: Hourly $1.75 per hour (or prepay to use the express
     exit)/ $2.00 per hour (pay on exit), Daily Maximum $9.00.
   • Teaching rooms are located on the lower Level KO.

   You may also access interior/exterior maps of the C&W site by clicking
   on the following:
   http://www.cw.bc.ca/maps/pdf/CACB%20maps.pdf