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MC Division Distinguished Scholar-Practitioners Session honoring Fred Miller & Judith Katz

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    Posted 08-06-2019 13:07

    Please join us for the MC Division's Distinguished Scholar-Practitioners Session Honoring Fred Miller & Judith Katz of The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group (my apologies for cross-posting)

    Program Session: 1236 | Submission: 19956 | Sponsor(s): (MC)
    Scheduled: Monday, Aug 12 2019 1:15PM - 2:45PM at Boston Park Plaza in Whittier

    The MC Division's honored guests as our Distinguished Scholar-Practitioners for 2019 are Fred Miller and Judith Katz. Both are Lifetime Achievement Award winners from the OD Network, and have earned many other accolades. They have written numerous books and articles in their consulting on Diversity and Inclusion over the past 40 years, and have helped thousands of people work and live better, with D&I as HOW they do things, rather than a WHAT to be achieved. 

    Here's their description of the session: 

    It's time to change the basics, creating 
    Interaction Safety and a Joining Culture

    As Organization Development Practitioners we know that creating an environment in which people feel safe enough to speak up is essential to any intervention. This is even more important as we look to creating high performing cultures in which everyone feels a sense of belonging, experiences being respected and valued as an individual, and most importantly, is able to do their best work. In this session, we will discuss a framework for diagnosing where an organization is with respect to interaction safety and the interventions needed to create interaction safety as a building block to creating inclusive organizations.  We will also discuss joining as a core mindset and the Conscious Actions that support a joining mindset.

    It is critical for people to intentionally practice interaction safety and Conscious Inclusion-a range of simple but effective behaviors that enhance every interaction and enable people and teams to feel safe enough to join each other across differences to connect and collaborate more effectively.

    Interaction safety is literally the baseline for real change. And, when interaction safety is real, then inclusive interactions can become the norm and people's talents are unleashed in service of organizational success. Viewed this way, Conscious Inclusion is not a "nice thing to do" or even the end result, but an essential HOW: how people develop strategies, set goals, make decisions, run meetings, solve problems, execute operations, and accomplish goals. The result is deeper engagement, the ability to respond to challenges quickly, and opportunities with speed and agility informed by greater collaboration and innovation.  

    In this session, we will share foundational interventions to diagnose and create change in organizations that create an environment that produces results though higher individual and team performance, including:

    • Diagnosing the level of interaction safety based on the Four Levels of Interaction Safety Model.
    • Discuss interventions to move to greater levels of interaction safety by moving to an organization culture that has a joining mindset.
    • Conscious Actions for Inclusion to sustain higher operational performance.

    Change the mindset, change the behaviors, change the organization



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    Eric Sanders
    Lecturer & Consultant
    Elmhurst College & Organization Development Economist, LLC
    (630) 290-8097
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