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5 Steps to Improved Performance As You Kickoff the New Year

All of us at Plus Delta Consulting have been reflecting on what we will do as we enter the New Year to improve performance in our organization – and with our client organizations. 2009 was a rocky year for many,

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Future: Unconference! Interview with Juliette Powell from OD Network Conference ’09 – Part II

As promised in part I of my Interview with Juliette Powell, in the video below Juliette discusses the future of conferences. If there was any misconception about the nature of the “unconference” versus the “conference” arising from her keynote address,

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Tweeting the Organization Development Network Conference: Collaboration, Transparency, & Engagement

In a time of decreasing attention spans partially due to the flood of information many of us experience, it has become an important skill to encapsulate the main point of a complex idea in as few words as possible —

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Juliette Powell Interview on Social Media in Organization Development: Part 1

[youtube]idEZ9lO6owI[/youtube] I recently conducted a two-part interview with Juliette Powell (author of 33 Million People in the Room) at the OD Network Conference in Seattle, just after she delivered the final keynote speech, titled “The Technology of Relationships: Social Networking and

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Community – Online and Offline: A guest post from OD Network Conference 2009

We have a strong commitment to provide the Organization Development community with a series of conversations highlighting the use of social and collaborative media within organizations. We believe that these technologies can be an empowering and enabling force for human

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The Future Of OD and the Role of Web 2.0: A Tipping Point?

Are Web 2.0 and social networking technologies the next “great app” in the field of OD to enable self-organizing systems and to build better working relationships in the organization? If I were a betting man, I would bet that half

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Social Networking Sites in the Workplace: Generational Divide?

A current Yahoo news story reports: “A new survey developed by Robert Half Technology suggests people who like to use social-networking Web sites while they’re at work could be violating company policy. Fifty-four percent of the companies surveyed said they

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