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Welcome
to Our New Newsletter!
We are proud to present our email-based newsletter bringing you up-to-date information and news about The Axelrod Group and collaborative change systems. Follow
the Calgary Health Region as they Redesign their Physician Referral
Process
 The
Calgary Health Region, located in Southern Alberta, is using our engagement
methodology to involve physicians, nurses, hospital administrators, allied
staff, and patients in the redesign of the physician referral process.
The work began with the training of a core team in May 2006, and will include
two large group conferences to be held in October 2006 and January 2007. Calgary
Health has graciously allowed us to follow their progress. Once you
reach their site, click on “invitation” to find out what is
happening.
New
Resources Available
Do you find meetings to be time-wasting and energy- sapping affairs? Find out how to make your meetings memorable. Executive Forum: Creating Energy-Producing Meetings Handbook
of Large Group Interventions
 We’re
very excited that our case study, Embedding Core Principles at Boeing,
is included in the recently published The
Handbook of Large Group Interventions (Bunker and Alban). Following
is a brief excerpt:
"People with graduate engineering degrees do not expect to walk a picket line. But that is what you would have seen in February 2000 when over fourteen thousand Boeing employees went on strike, the largest white-collar strike in U.S. history. Three years later, the same employees who went on strike voted by an over 80 percent margin to renew their contract. Today, new programs, such as the 787 Dreamliner and Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft, have added six thousand new jobs in Washington state. Production rates for commercial airplanes are increasing, and orders are up. Employee satisfaction is at a ten-year high." Read Full Article in PDF format > Also included in this book are articles by our friends and colleagues, John Adams, Nancy Aronson, Rosemarie Barbeau, Julie Beedon, Susan Dupre, Rad Godezky, Sandra Janoff, Lenny Lind, Kenoli Olari, Rita Schweitz, Helen Spector, Gil Steil, Christine Quade, and Marvin Weisbord. It’s nice to be in such good company. Kudos
to Ruth Wagner (another friend and colleague)
Axelrod
Sightings
 Dick
Axelrod will be presenting a workshop titled “Managing Great Meetings:
Getting People Involved and Keeping them There” at The
Human Side of Technology Conference on October 19th, 2006 in Chicago,
IL.
Dick and Emily Axelrod will be presenting “How to Design Your Own Large Group Intervention” at the ODN Conference on October 24th, 2006 in San Francisco, CA.
Terms of Engagement Terms of Engagement: Changing The Way We Change Organizations is now available in paperback.
If you’ve already read the book and were excited by its concept of system wide, egalitarian change then consider bringing Dick Axelrod in to speak to your organization; or consider bringing Terms of Engagement to your organization through our on site workshops. The Terms of Engagement Workshop. Ground yourself in the change principles from the book that Peter Block calls “important”. The Conference Model Workshop. Learn the blueprints of the Axelrod’s famous Conference Model process. The Designers Workshop. Get serious about how to create elegant meetings, workshops, and conferences of your own. The Leaders Workshop. Dick Axelrod and Peter Koestenbaum's seminar on how to successfully lead in the face of conflicting viewpoints and information. The Collaborative Systems Reader is The Axelrod Group's e-newsletter and companion to Dick Axelrod’s book, Terms of Engagement: Changing The Way We Change Organizations. Each issue contains valuable ideas for creating collaborative systems, as well as Axelrod sightings, presentations by Axelrod Group members at conferences and workshops. To receive email notification of our latest issue, please fill out the form below and we will add you to our newsletter recipient list. Read Past Issues of The Collaborative Systems Reader Archives of "Perspectives" For many years the Axelrod Group published Perspectives, a printed newsletter. Some of our favorite columns are now available on our website in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. You will need Acrobat Reader to view these newsletters. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, click the link below to download from Adobe's website for free:
Winter 1991 – Preventing The Tyranny of Consensus Spring 1991 – Leadership Is The Art of Paying Attention Summer 1991 – Honoring Resistance Summer 1994 – Please Don’t Waste My Time |
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