NO.
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DATE
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TOPIC & CONTENT
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PRESENTER
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VENUE AND HOST
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SIGNING-
UP
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2002
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01
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Sep 27, 2002 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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Book Review on "From Good to Great" by Jim Collins
The inaugral LOPN session!
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Dr George White
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Singapore Police
Force
3I Central Rm 2
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Ivan Kwek
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02
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Nov 29, 2002 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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Systems Thinking Case Study
Sharing on using Systems Thinking on real-life situations.
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Ms Sheila Damodaran
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NCS
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Lim Peng Li
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2003
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03
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Jan 29, 2003 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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The DSTA LO Experience
Sharing and gathering input on ongoing development in DSTA
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Lim Hang Sheng
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DSTA
Science Park
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04
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Cancelled due to SARs
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05
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May 27, 2003 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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Introduction to Human Dynamics
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Dr Sandra Seagal and
David Horne
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Ascendas
Science Hub
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Jenny Loh
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06
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Jul 25, 2003 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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My Learning Journey and taking LO to the schools
Seok Lin shares her personal journey in this work as well as what she
noticed happen as the schools tried to learn and apply LO.
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Mrs Ding Seok Lin
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MOE HQ,
Level 20
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Evelyn Tan
Masni Mah
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07
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Sep 26, 2003 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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The Army Experience with Learning Organisation
Provides answers to the question how does implementing Learning
Organisation look like in the Army. What did the officers do to prepare to
embrace the work?
Eidik Yeo and his team has gladly agreed to share their learnings, their
strategies and efforts, the infrastructures they have implemented and the
reactions of the officers. Many who have heard their story, know the
officers truly and genuinely care to create a Learning Organisation. The
presentation can be aptly summarised as "What CEOs may want to know
about designing Learning Organisations". We know this is a topic of
interest for many of you! To make the session useful for you, do come to
the session with one question you have, about creating Learning
Organizations.
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Eidick Yeo
Andrea Koh
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DMG HQ
Defence
Technological Tower
B, Level 22 Openness
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S Senthiyil
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08
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Nov 21, 2003 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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Personal Mastery
I first met Dr Low Guat Tin, in my year-long LO programme, when Diane
Cory announced, "Let me say no more on Personal Mastery, but bring it
alive for you - here's Guat Tin". For the next hour or so, all of us listened
spellbound (even when she used far less humour then, than she is so well
known for, as we heard the stories of her life, a beautiful showcase of
personal mastery in action. A question that begged to be answered as she
finished, was "Can it all happen in so little time?"
We are therefore pleased to bring you Dr Low at the next LOPN session.
She would sharing on personal visions, reflecting together as a large-group
with the impending year-end of 2003. A well known author (co-author of
“Big Fish Eat Small Fish”), you can expect her sharing to be peppered with
thought-provoking ideas as much as humour and no doubt find a fitting way
to inspire onself and to find greater heights as the new year begins.
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Dr Low Guat Tin, NIE
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NACLI, Learning
Lounge
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Wong Mei Lin & Zarina
Ismail
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2004
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09
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Feb 6, 2004 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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The Sun CAP Model by SUN Microsystems
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Ms Jacqueline Wong and
Ng Choon Seng
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Civil Service College,
IPAM, Seminar Rm 3
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Cindy Teo
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10
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Jun 18, 2004 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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Leadership and Self-Deception
ARBINGER’S OPEN INVITATION TO HR/OD SPECIALISTS
SUPPOSE … everything in your life/organisation depended on one thing, the
answer to a fundamental problem at the heart of the human sciences that
had never been solved, a problem so deep only a small group of scholars
knew of its existence,
a problem so pervasive few people knew it was a problem, a problem that
kept individual & organisational energy focused on sustaining the problem.
Suppose that problem were solved.
And suppose the [solution] had power to transform your [life or
organisation’s bottom line] … in ways you never thought possible, and in
ways others or your competitors couldn’t match. Suppose this solution
[changes] everything ... especially [results].
Would you want to know?
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S Senthiyl
Arbinger Singapore
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Singapore Tourism
Board Auditorium
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Irene Chia
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11
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Aug 5, 2004 (Thu)
2.30 pm
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Making Systems Thinking as simple as ABC
- The Whats, The Whys and Hows
- What it is?
- The origins and context-setting
- Understanding dynamic complexity
- Laws of the Fifth Discipline
- What is complexity made up of?
- Building the language of Systems Thinking
- Introducing Archetypes
There would be lots of stories at organizational and personal levels showing
applications of the tools!
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Ms Sheila Damodaran
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DSO National
Laborataries
Auditorium
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Dave Yio
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12
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Sep 24, 2004 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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Overcoming Limits to Learning Organisation - A group discussion
What’s is causing Limits to Growth in Learning Organisation?
Introducing the underlying structure causing this
Introducing Dance of Change
Introducing the World Café
Breakout: The World Café organized along ten themes (participants are
welcome to choose any two themes of their choice and answer the
questions, actions to start, stop, continue):
- Not enough time
- No help (coaching and support)
- Not relevant
- Walking the Talk
- Fear and anxiety
- Assessment and measurement
- True Believers and Nonbelievers
- Governance
- Diffusion
- Strategy and Purpose
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Ms Sheila Damodaran
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Woodgrove Sec.
School, Level 3 AV
Room
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Ivan Lee
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13
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Nov 12, 2004 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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Appreciative Inquiry
The Whats, The Why and The Hows of Appreciative Inquiry! Dr Deanna
Berg has graciously offered this to the members of the network.
Appreciative Inquiry since it began its quest has been building a consistent
and passionate following that stand by its benefits.
Here's a story here that show how this idea started with a very simple yet
powerful thought but which has been its drawing power. In 1982,
researchers at the University of Wisconsin conducted a study of the learning
process by videotaping two bowling teams during several games. Later,
members of each team studied a copy of the video of their efforts in order
to improve their skills. But the copies were edited differently. One team
received a video showing only the times when its members made mistakes;
the other team’s video included only the times when members performed
well. After the bowlers studied the videos and acted upon what they had
learned, what happened?
Both teams did improve their game. But the team that studied its successes
improved its score by twice as much as the one that studied its mistakes.
And research has shown that when people study problems and conflicts,
the number and severity of the problems they identify actually increase.
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Dr Deanna Berg
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MOE HQ,
Evelyn Tan,
Level 20
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Kelly at
Chong_Siew_Wei@moe
.gov.sg at 68796236
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2005
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14
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Mar 11, 2005 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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Servant Leadership
A presentation.
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Ding Seok Lin (Greenleaf
Asia)
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GB Centre
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Lim Siew Sian
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15
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Apr 15, 2005 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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Human Dynamics in Healthcare and Education
A fundamental key to enhanced team functioning lies not only in recognizing
people are different, but also in understanding how they are different.
Awareness of these differences provides the opportunity for group
members to recognize, appreciate and utilize the gifts that each naturally
embodies, and to use their diversity to create synergism. The result is not
only enhanced productivity, but also more joy at work. Human Dynamics
identifies and documents inherent distinctions in the functioning of people
as whole mental – emotional – physical – spiritual systems. These
distinctions in human functioning are more fundamental than age, race,
culture and gender. They seem to exist globally, characterize males and
females equally, and be observable at every age level. They can be
identified even in infancy. Lily shares here applications of this work in
Sweden.
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Lily Seah (Integros)
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Differworld
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Shen_delun@spf.gov.sg
by 5 Apr 05 (Mon)
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16
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May 13, 2005
(Fri) 2.30 pm
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Change the conversations to change the future
Do you need to create change in your organization?
Do you need to create commitment to shared vision?
Do you need to shift mental models so that people act differently?
Do you need to partner with your customers to achieve these?
“Change the Conversation, Change the Future”
Learn and experience new ideas to:
Shift from lip service to authenticity.
Shift from a pair of hands role to a full partner.
Shift from cynicism and blame to personal accountability.
Shift from enforced change to a personal choice to change.
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Wendy Tan (Flame
Centre)
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DMG
Chia Lai Chun
Defences
Technology Tower
B, Level 22,
Openness
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Shen_delun@spf.gov.sg
by 9 May 05 (Mon)
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17
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Jul 29, 2005 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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Designing Purposeful Change
Sharing on the CAP methodology and how it is deployed in organizations
as a flagship process to imbue change management sensitivities and
aptitude. They will also share how some of the ideas of learning
organisation are infused in the CAP methodology. With over 10 years of
experience behind them in change management, we can certainly learn a
great deal from them at this forum.
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Jacqueline Wong
(Sequoia Consulting) &
Ling Yuin Fong (Open
Dimensions), OD &
Change Facilitators
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HDB
Anthony Lim
Visionary Room (Rm
6), HDB Learning
Centre HDB Hub,
Toa Payoh
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ts9@hdb.gov.sg by 26
Jul 05 (Tue)
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18
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Aug 29, 2005
(Mon)
7.00 pm
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"An evening with Sandra Seagal on Human Dynamics", jointly
organised by SIM ODG and LOPN presents a preview of the work of Human
Dynamics.
Based on 25 years of investigation, the body of work called Human
Dynamics® heralds the birth of a new science. It offers new discoveries
regarding the function and development of people as specific whole
systems of mental, emotional and physical interplay. It also identifies two
domains of human functioning – the Personal and Transpersonal – and
bridges both.
Understanding the distinct human systems that Human Dynamics®
identifies provides an essential key to unlocking our
human potential for sustained personal, interpersonal, team and
transpersonal development.
Dr Sandra Seagal is Founder President of Human Dynamics International.
She has been engaged in on-going investigation in
Human Dynamics since 1979. Dr Seagal’s expertise is rooted in her
education and psychology background. Mr David Horne is
the Vice-President of Human Dynamics International. Having served for
over 25 years as a therapist, administrator, writer,
and producer of training films in the fields of psychology and special
education, Mr Horne’s contributions have been
instrumental in furthering the study of Human Dynamics.
Suitable for persons who wish to have an awareness of Human Dynamics
and/or is considering to atttend the 4-day
workshop. Indicate that you are member of LOPN when registering.
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Dr Sandra Seagal, David
Horne
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SIM Management
House, 41 Namly
Avenue
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$5 registration fee is
payable to ODG.
Click here to register.
For enquiries, contact
Esther Tong - 6248
9449
esthertong@sim.edu.sg
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19
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Sep 30, 2005 (Fri)
2.30 pm
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Unlocking Complexity - Try peeling the "Onion"
Have you ever wondered why it is sometimes hard to uncover archetypes
on the problems we are working on? Or why, do we notice more than one
archetype exists in a particular issue? If so, which one is right? A more
relevant question to ask seems to be, “In what ways, do they all come
together?” When we started looking through this frame, we discovered the
“onion”! This sesion presents this discovery!
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Ms Sheila Damodaran
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HDB
Anthony Lim
Visionary Room (Rm
6), HDB Learning
Centre HDB Hub,
Toa Payoh
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Shen_Delun@spf.gov.sg
by 27 Sep 05 (Tue)
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20
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Oct 28, 2005 (Fri)
9.00 am
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Action Learning by Dr John D Marquardt
Ok! You have tried to 'make Learning Organisation work and you are not
sure if you are "actually seeing results"'. If you have been there, then you
have met your match in Dr Michael Marquardt whose life's work has been
to 'make the LO real'. His work focusses in the ways we step in as well as
out of conversations that moves it effortlessly from ideas to tangible actions!
A must attend for people charged to lead and work with teams in creating
action plans! Learning and action occur in the context of solving significant
organizational problems. High impact measurable results are built-in to the
action learning process for individuals, teams and the entire organization.
The most powerful questions in action learning lead to greater insight, new
ideas, and deeper understanding. Within great questions are the seeds of
great solutions. The great attraction of Action Learning is its unique power
to simultaneously address difficult challenges and develop people and
organizations at minimal costs to the institutions.
Dr Marquardt has graciously accepted our invitation to meet and present his
work and ideas to the LOPN community. NACLI has offered to be the host
of the event. Do register with Delun to secure your place.
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Dr Marquardt
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08:45 am - 12:30
pm (Registration
from 8.30 am)
Learning Lounge,
NACLI, 70 South
Bouna Vista Road
KINDLY NOTE THIS
SESSION IS IN THE
MORNING AND NOT
IN THE AFTERNOON!
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Shen_Delun@spf.gov.sg
by 21 Oct 05 (Fri)
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2006
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21
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Jan 19, 2006
(Thu)
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A PRACTITIONERS' COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS ON LEADERSHIP
We are pleased to announce that Dr George White of I2R has agreed to
present at the coming Forum. He looks forward to sharing his collection of
thoughts and ideas on leadership that helps people and the systems
become more innovative.
An accomplished thinker, not to say, an avid innovator himself (even at a
tender age he was setting his sights on the ideals of NASA to build rockets
to land on the moon), he has evolved his ideas from various fields of
organizational development including a strong influence of Peter Senge's
ideas as well as his own experiences working in research institutes.
We hope these sharings inspire you to find your own practices in this field
and in turn help your organization use them.
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Dr George White
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Singapore
Polytechnic,
Staff Lounge
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Kindly register your
interest with Delun at
mailto:Shen_Delun@spf
.gov.sg
by 12 Jan 2006 (Thu).
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22
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March 1, 2006
(Wed)
9am-5pm
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CAFE ASIA: ABC’S OF SPEAKING AND LEARNING FROM THE HEART - A
co-creative inquiry into the foundations of transformation
Calling all who are on the path of learning and transformation within
organizations and communities in Singapore and the region!!
AN INVITATION
You are invited to an exciting one day forum to collectively explore and
discover what it takes for each of us to be and create the change
we want to see in the community. In essence the café explores
questions on authenticity, beingness and co-creation and so, the
ABCs of speaking and learning from the Heart!
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT?
We will inquire more deeply into the questions and challenges we are
facing, such as the following. What is authenticity? How can I and all of us
be as authentic to each other as we want to be? How do you control
without controlling? What would you ‘BE’, if you were not so busy being a
change agent or fixing the world? How do you keep an open heart when
you have been disappointed? What is co-creation? How does it happen?
How do we create a future when we don’t know what it looks like? Why do
interventions fail? Managers run through three to six different strategies,
without once examining why a strategy seems to be failing, except asking
“What’s the next one?”
It is not a session on sharing of tools and techniques yet you can expect to
see the session uses tools such as the World Café and other techniques to
facilitate the conversations and learn by doing them.
WHAT TO PREPARE?
This will be both a personal and collective learning experience, allowing
each of us to bring our unique richness, curiosity and creativeness to the
group. Please bring a question that is close to your heart that you would
like to engage others at a deeper level in a group setting.
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A joint initiative of the
Asian Facilitators
Network, the Learning
Organization
Practitioners Network
(LOPN) and the
Organizational
Development Group
(SIM) in Singapore
|
Raffles Campus
(situated on Level
19, Springleaf
Tower,
Anson Road, nearest
MRT: Tanjung
Pagar; more
information below)
Cost: S$30.00
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Registrationclick here
to register by 20 Feb
2006 (Mon)
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23
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May 15, 2006
(Mon)
3-6 pm
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"WORLD CAFE ON WORLD CAFE"
We are proud to have Juanita Brown and David Issac amongst our midst to
have and lead us through a “World Café on World Café”. For more details
on this event, including programmes, map, etc. click here.
WHAT HAS BEEN THE MARK SINGAPORE HAS MADE SO FAR!
Singapore has been making a mark in this work and in Juanita and David’s
latest book: World Cafe: Shaping Our Future Through Conversations That
Matter, the Singapore’s experience was hailed as an inspiration to follow.
It is something that has grown on many of us.
OUR HOPES FOR THE SESSION
The hope is to learn and continue to hone our skills to take our competence
in this field to the next level. We open this forum to:
- Past practitioners to come and share and learn from each other and
the experience;
- Interested and new-comers, who may have seen or heard from
others and wants to understand and learn from others in the room.
At some point you may act as Café Hosts to help you learn this
process.
SO YOU ARE INVITED!
So don’t miss this moment! We invite you to be a part of this opportunity.
We know Juanita and David are excited and look forward to seeing us in
action and to be in our midst and help foster our learning.
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Juanita Brown
David Issacs
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NACLI, Learning
Lounge.
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By 10 May (Wed) with
Delun Shen at
Shen_Delun@spf.gov.sg
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24
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July 31, 2006
(Mon)
2-6 pm
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"HOW MAY CONVERSATIONAL PROCESSES SUCH AS THE WORLD
CAFE, OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY BE
USED MOST EFFECTIVELY ALONE AND IN COMBINATION?"
What do you think of these propositions?
Conversational processes such as Open Space Technology (OST), The
World Café (TWC) and Appreciative Inquiry (AI) make possible for the first
time in human history for everyone present in a meeting to have
comparable power to influence the outcome of their interactions.
Central to this happening is that everyone gives each other respect.
Prior to the availability of these conversational approaches has respect ever
been accorded naturally, outside the confines of 'inner circles' such as
family or work units and particular 'faith based' communities, to whoever
comes?
You would be very welcome to come along to contribute to a conversation
on these questions.
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Dr Alan Stewart
|
Supreme Ct
Basement 1 Foyer
|
Register By 30 Jul
(Sun) Click here to
register.
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25
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October 23, 2006
(Mon)
2-6 pm
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SYSTEMS DYNAMICS HAPPENING IN SCHOOLS! Working Systems
Dynamics in Schools, A sharing of India's experiences with their
students by Sushil Bajpai.
I had a great time listening and understanding what Sushil and Rajinder at
RB Academy build from scratch a whole school that has turned around its
curriculum on its head, centred almost entirely around Systems Thinking,
even including building their brand new school building on these principles.
Isn't that astounding?
It is amazing to see students and teachers alike share a love for the
language, using it freely e.g. "if we don't pay attention, the long-term
consequence that we pay ...", jointly discovering leverages, building
simulations and developing policies unique for each stakeholder depending
on their specific needs - talk about true democracy yet work, yet totally
systemic! Now how do you do that? Come and find out!
Forum scope:
- Listen to stories of lessons that teachers and school use to help
children, teachers and parents appreciate the dynamic complexity
that surround us and series of lessons that they have used in
schools, integrating them seamlessly in everyday lessons and helping
students learn the experience of interconnections and the behaviour
of the dynamic nature of the interconnections. What if our future
employees can do this by themselves?
- Experiences from a field trip to a village where the students saw first
hand how hard they were struck by “The Tragedy of Commons”
archetype and how they used the Systems Thinking and the other
disciplines, to reverse the situation sustainably. And this without any
knowledge of the work or the jargon. Just plain emergence and
convergence with help of an NGO that helped build their capacity.
- How the school-system has used it to make sense of complexities
they experience, e.g. to reduce noise reduction. Watch a video
capturing all of these learnings, and more!
We invite you to an exciting afternoon of learning and discoveries!
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Sushil Bajpai,
Department of Systems
Thinking and Dynamic
Modeling, Sadhana
Centre of Management
and Leadership
Development (SCMLD),
Pune, India
|
Singapore
Polytechnic, enter
Gate 8 by
Commonwealth
Avenue West,
Gallery, Level 1,
T11A(School of
Chemical & Life
Sciences)
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Register by October 19
(Thu). Click here to
register.
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26
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November 27,
2006 (Mon)
2-6 pm
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“SERVANT LEADERSHIP (Link 2): FROM CONCEPT TO PRACTICE”
Concept of Servant Leadership as originally by Greenleaf Centre
Servant Leadership. We work all our lives so that we do not become a
servant'. So how come such an idea sustains itself in today's world? Yet, it
has! And it really had little to do with biblical reasons. So come and
discover what we didn't know. This Forum allows us to explore the
concepts and ways we can translate them so they can be 'practical' in our
lives (this not only allows us to do the translation, it allows us to adapt the
practice to our own culture).
Richard would join in a conversation about servant-leadership with you and
explore the concepts and how these might be translated into practical realm
for you. The best preparation the participants can do is read one, or both,
of the following essays: 'The Servant as Leader' and 'Servant: Retrospect
and Prospect' and to bring your observations and questions (if you choose
not to read, then you can just show up and we can emerge in our own
topics/agenda together).
If you hope this sticks for you, (and given this is Servant Leadership; it is
first about others before me), it really comes through from being willing to
'grow up' to turn ourself to embrace what is coming for us. Would you
trust yourself to try this and experience a whole new world of directing your
own learning?
Pre-Forum Reading:
'The Servant as Leader'
'Servant: Retrospect and Prospect'
Both articles are available for purchase
Book Title: The Servant as Leader
English Version : S$ 8 per book
Bilingual : S$10 per book
These books can be purchased at The Girls' Brigade Greenleaf Asia
Singapore, located at 795 Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 534667.
Free Delivery for order above S$200. S$ 15 Delivery Charges for order
S$199 & below.
To order: Do let the team at GB know 3 working days in advance at the
above email or look for Vivian at GB Shop Tel: 63820325 to enable us to
arrange/pack.
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Richard Smith (Bio)
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PUB, Environment
Building
|
Register by Nov 23
(Thu). Click here to
register.
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