The Invisible Side of Performance

Register and meet between 4:30 and 5:00PM. The meeting runs from 5:00PM
– 7:00PM
HOST: Mitch Romanchuk
Located at the City Training Centre at the Vancouver City Hall
(North side of the City Hall at the foot of the Captain Vancouver statue)
453 West 12th, Vancouver. (Cambie & 12th)
Parking on the street or in the rotunda area of the City Hall

Ever notice yourself in a habitual pattern of communication that never moves
anything forward? Often this is a “felt” experience in which you can feel something
is amiss without being able to pinpoint what’s keeping you stuck. At other
times you may witness groups that get themselves stuck and you’re left wondering
how to intervene, if at all. Using actual cases and an interactive approach,
this workshop will reveal some of the underlying dynamics inhibiting group
performance. Gain insights into making invisible factors visible for yourself
and the groups you serve.

John Baker, a new BCODN member, has been an integral part of the Vancouver
OD community for the last 25 years. His firm, Shift Consulting, is celebrating
20 years of developing people, teams, and organizations. 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.
• Assisting the Vancouver Aquarium in the difficult decision to abandon the
  established practice of exhibiting killer whales while sustaining its financial
  success.

Engaging 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.