SYMLOG International Conference

March 2010

Please mark your calendars for March 5-6, 2010, and join us for a SYMLOG Conference celebrating our 25 years offering SYMLOG programs. It will be a time to reconnect with colleagues, make new friends, and highlight what we have learned together in this quarter century that can help inform our practices.

For the March conference, we would like to focus on designing and delivering integrated development programs to help ensure you are able to show clients a benchmark from which your efforts began, and change in a positive direction to assure them they are getting the most from their development dollars. Organizations are now worldwide, and development efforts need to take into account changing demographics and needs.

If you use Google or another professional search engine for "group dynamics" today, you will find many references. If you look closely, however, you will further find there are few, if any, "dynamics" in what is referenced. And, at a time when Gen Y has become increasingly dependent on texting and e-mail, and often uncomfortable with face-to-face encounters, what might this mean to the way we design and deliver our programs? How has social interaction changed? Do we have any tools now to help address these issues that weren’t available forty years ago?

To this end, we will be inviting practitioners from around the globe to share their experiences: their successes, failures, and needs going into the future to maximize their client retention and competitive edge.

At this time, we are planning sessions to include speakers with experience in:

• designing and delivering programs to a cross-cultural audience;
• addressing the different priorities in an audience of multiple generations;
• organizational culture change initiatives and the power of repeated measures;
• longitudinal studies in building integrated organizations;
• tackling both the socio and technical problems in organizations simultaneously by combining feedback with quality based initiatives (6 Sigma, ISO, Continuous Improvement, Requisite Organizations, etc);
• and more …

Please let us know of your interest in attending, an area that you might be interested in addressing personally at the conference, and any other topics you might wish to see included. Mark your calendars and save the dates: March 5-6, 2010. We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you again then.

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