Description: Many individuals feel a lack of influence over their place within today's organizations. This session explores the unwritten contract with any type of organization, and what you can do to improve outcomes for both, leading to joy in work and greater stability.

Target Audience: This interactive workshop will be useful to anyone who has ever felt that an organization fails to value their contribution, or acts in an impersonal way.

Organizational Issues: Unwrap the two-way nature of the ‘psychological contract’ between person and organization. Explore the effect of diverse values and purposes operating in the organization, and identify strands where they can apply leverage to improve understanding of value added, and.

Objectives: There are many for this seminar include;

• Unwrap the nature of the ‘psychological contract’ operating between person and organization
• Identify strengths in the individual’s worth to an organisation, and reasons for continuing with it
• Develop personal plans for applying greater influence (Leadership), and to gain recognition for effective deployment

Cost: None

Pre-work: None

Materials Needed: None

Handouts: Available for download after the Forum

Biography: Terance Leers serves as the Director of Studies at the Institute for Spirituality and Healthcare, Princeton, N.J.. In his capacity, he serves as the chief liaison between the Institute’s board of research scientists, physicians, clinicians, and theologians. He is a member of the Inter-disciplinary think tank at the institute that is engaged in building the bridge science and spirituality. With 30 years experience working in the aerospace and engineering industry, he brings a significant and seasoned understanding of the challenges related to overcoming obstacles associated with the implementation of new scientific innovations.

Terry served for 5 years as the leader of The Boeing Company’s Applied Learning Network where he was responsible for researching and implementing virtual collaboration and human sense-making technologies intended to create advanced decision support systems. With over 3 decades of experience in aerospace, his primary focus was large scale organizational systems change based on Organizational Learning and Action Research principles. He also has collaborated with David Snowden’s Cognitive Edge Organization of UK and Otto Scharmer’s The Presencing Institute at MIT to implement integrated advanced awareness-based social technologies. Leers also functioned as the corporate liaison to SoL, the Society for Organizational Learning founded by Peter Senge, author of “The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.” As an educator, Leers served as faculty member at The Boeing Leadership Center in St. Louis, Mo. and as a graduate level and undergraduate level adjunct faculty member in Global Technology Management and Strategic Management, for Seattle Pacific University School of Information Management, City University, University of Phoenix, and University of Washington Information School and has taught at Beijing’s Polytechnic Institute in Beijing, China.

Terry graduated from Antioch University of Seattle with a M.S. in Management and from Seattle Pacific University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Systems Management. He is currently a seminary student and doing his residency in hospital chaplaincy. In addition to his research work at the Institute he serves as the Co-chair of the Curriculum Development committee. He is a father to 3 children, an avid cyclist, and a resident of Princeton.

Contact: Terry can be reached by e-mail at tleers@aol.com for additional information about this Pre-Conference session.

Website: www.spiritualityandhealthcare.org

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/terryleers

Biography: You might say that John Morgan was born to heal organizations; or even that he is an experiment in improving society. In truth ever since he wore short trousers to school he has asked questions about why we organise things as we do, since he could see that they often don’t work out as we intended.

He enjoys working across and between organizations, encouraging cooperation and helping growing businesses to rediscover teamwork. Initially trained as a mechanical and production engineer, John says he has learnt from a broad mix of roles, from guiding a large hospital from reactive to preventative maintenance; coaching owners of small industrial businesses in management of reputational risks; helping a fossil-fuel based generating group adopt a more sustainable low-carbon path; and drawing together multiple government agencies to tackle anti-social behaviour.

John set up management consultancy Purpose First Limited to draw upon 30 years of experience as an in-house improvement agent in public and private UK organizations. And now that he has the perfect job, he claims that his family happily tolerate his frequent travelling to mix work, study and motorcycling (not necessarily in that order), as absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Contact: John can be reached by e-mail at johnmorgan@purposefirst.co.uk for additional information about this Pre-Conference session.

Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/john58morgan

Website: www.purposefirst.co.uk