MjPixley is designed to record explorations and learning conducted by Mark J. Pixley. These are primarily, but not exclusively, focused on Facilitation & Organizational Change, China & Chinese (including language learning), and Political & Culture Development.
I co-facilitated a Global Facilitators Facilitators Corp. (GFSC) workshop on Disaster Management at SEAMEO-INNOTECH in Manila. GFSC and SEAMEO have a partnership agreement to promote disaster recovery and social psycho reconstruction process to educational institutions in South East Asia.
This workshop was to introduce the SEAMEO-INNOTECH staff to the GFSC disaster models and facilitation processes.
I went to the AODN/IODA Global OD Summit in Hyderabad. (You can see details on the conference at their website http://www.iodaindia.org/ ) It was an interesting mix of practitioners from around the world, particularly the IODA members, and a cross section of Indian OD practitioners.
A thinktank about facilitation utilizing the Web 2.0 tools and the virtualization of meetings
It was a lot of fun to lead a group in thinking about the relationship between facilitation and available web base tools. I have been emphasizing that there is a great deal of commonality, particularly about involvement, between facilitated meeting and Web 2.0.
This was an interesting exercise in creating a presentation which is relevant to the current period of financial crisis.
I have always found it interesting when people describes the current moment as the period of "most dramatic change."
This presentation talks through an organizational change case study of how to bring about transformation change in a crisis situation. That is, how do you choose the change rather than having the change done to you.