Organization Development Network of New York

Event Date: 9/14/2010

The ODNNY 2010-11 Season Kick-off Event

Connect... Engage... Exchange...

...and discover how cutting-edge neuroscience is having an impact on how we make, buy, sell, and enjoy everything and also probes deeper questions on how this new knowledge can enhance the lives of your customers.

Please join us to a special evening with Peter Block, co-hosted by The New School.

As OD practitioners we are in the business of learning, not teaching or training. All learning and change require a community to sustain it. Community, and a sense of belonging, is created by shifting the conversation from problem solving to possibility, deficiencies and needs to gifts, and blame and barter to ownership and commitment. Peter's session will be a demonstration of its theory, so the tools of communal transformation will be in the experience.

In major corporations around the world, the process by which change happens is virtually the same whether you are developing a strategic plan, improving a process, or redesigning an organization. Leaders meet with consultants to develop the plan. Once the plan is developed, they attempt to create "buy-in" by selling the plan to the organization. These practices produce engagement gaps, which according to neuroscience, work against innovation and creativity. In 2009, Dick and Emily Axelrod set out to uncover change secrets. They conducted dozens of interviews¾everyone from the vice president of global citizenship at Cirque to Soleil to a checkout clerk at Best Buy.