'THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE' |
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT |
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the USA there has grown up an organisation which was originally called 'The
Executive Committee' (TEC for short - and confusingly for Brits!). TEC (US
style) has brought together Chief Executives of usually medium sized companies
to work in ways that are, in part, similar to an SML learning group. Except,
that their groups are about 12 people and they do not have strategic learning
contracts (so the focus tends to be more on short-term problem solving).
Allowing for that they have been very effective in providing support for
CEO's.
One other dimension of their operation is that their one-day meetings are divided between an afternoon on problem solving learning in the group and a morning with an invited speaker. Ian Cunningham ran two of these morning sessions for CEOs in the Baltimore Washington DC area in February. His focus on SML and strategic learning, not suprisingly, struck a chord and the local TEC chair (who acts in a facilitative mode with the group) is pushing the use of SML in the area. |
May
3rd to 5th saw the first International Organisation Development Conference
in Bahrain.
George Bush (ex President of the USA) made the keynote address along with the Prime Minister of Bahrain. Other speakers included John Adair on leadership and Edward de Bono on thinking skills. Ian Cunningham ran a session on empowerment, showing the need to link Self Managed Learning to empowerment strategy. Ian demonstrated how empowerment can fail when people are not given the chance to learn to be self managing. He warned against attempts to introduce full empowerment without providing proper learning support for everyone. Members of the CSML network can get Ian's Power Point presentation by emailing him at cunning@pavilion.co.uk (Please say whether you have a PC or a Mac). |
