PNODN welcomes Kathleen Ryan
- Does your performance depend upon the effectiveness of groups that you lead or support?
- Do those groups produce outstanding results?
- During your group meetings, are people fully engaged and do they offer their best ideas, thinking, and collaboration?
- Do your group meetings leave people feeling energized, focused, and highly motivated to follow through on their commitments?
If you answered ‘Yes’ to the first question and ‘Not as much as I would like’ to the next three, consider joining us for an evening of conversation about extraordinary teams.
Since 2006, Kathleen Ryan, co-author Geoff Bellman, and survey partner Kevin Coray have been studying peak team experiences. First Geoff and Kathyundefinedlong-time friends of OSR--researched then wrote Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results (Jossey-Bass, 2009). Then Kathy and Kevin pushed the work further by developing a valid and reliable survey, based on the concepts of the book. This online survey, the Extraordinary Team Inventory, and related support materials will be published by HRDQ early in 2014.
Join us as Kathy shares some of what they’ve learned about amazing teams, including:
- The definition and profile of an extraordinary team
- Five indicators that differentiate extraordinary teams
- Specific actions to increase team capacity
- Implications for your role in teams: As a member, leader, coach or facilitator
Kathleen D. Ryan
Kathleen Ryan helps her clients achieve outstanding business results through the innovation which comes from collaboration and exceptional teaming. As a behind-the-scenes thought-leader, Ryan has been identified as "an organizational consultant with an instinct for translating complex human behavior into practical concepts." Through The Orion Partnership, a consulting firm based near Seattle, Washington, she has been known for years for her work in turning fear-based organizations into ones where collaboration and trust are the keys to high performance. She is a mentor and executive coach with a wide range of consulting skills and expertise, including organization-wide change efforts, individual and organizational assessments, executive feedback and development, and senior level team development. Additionally, she provides shadow consultation to internal organization consultants. She is particularly skilled at helping individuals and groups address the difficult-to-talk-about, underlying issues that frequently block high performance.
Her third book, Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results, co-authored with Geoffrey Bellman was published by John Wiley in September of 2009. A companion assessment tool, The Extraordinary Team Inventory will be published by HRDQ in 2014. Her first book, Driving Fear Out of the Workplace: Creating the High-Trust, High-Performance Organization, was co-authored with Daniel K. Oestreich. Published by Jossey-Bass in 1991, it received the Society for Human Resource Management's 1992 Book Award; a second edition was published in 1998. Continuing her work with the issues of fear and trust, her second book, co-authored with Daniel Oestreich and George Orr, is entitled The Courageous Messenger: How to Successfully Speak Up at Work (Jossey-Bass, 1996).
In addition to her consulting work, Ryan is a founding member of The Community Consulting Partnership, a Seattle-based effort that helps volunteers improve their organization consulting skills while they provide service to a local non-profit organization (www.ccpseattle.org). She also serves as a strategic advisor to Organization System Renewal graduate program offered through the Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Ryan received her BA degree (1969) from the University of California at Berkeley and her Master’s in Public Administration (1978) from the University of Southern California. In addition to her books, she has published on the topics of accountability, collaboration, organizational transformation, resistance to change, group process facilitation, sexual harassment, and peer pressure.
She has an extensive list of clients in the fields of technology, healthcare, science, local government, and philanthropy. Learn more about Kathleen at www.extraordinarygroups.com and orionpartnership.com. She can be reached at 425.429.6675 or orionkdr@live.com.
COST:
$15 Members when pre-paid & pre-registered
$20 Non members when pre-paid & pre-registered
$20 Walk in rate for members
$25 Walk in rate for non members
$10 for students pre-registered or walk in
AGENDA:
6:00 - 6:30 pm We gather – Arrival, Registration & Opening (Refreshments served)
6:30 – 8:00 pm Topic Presented
8:00 – 8:30 pm We wrap up, evaluation, & closing announcements
Online registration closes the Sunday prior to the meeting. PNODN welcomes and encourages walk ins at the door where the walk in rates will be:
$20 Walk in rate for members
$25 Walk in rate for non members
$10 for students pre-registered or walk in
In order to take advantage of the pre-registration discount, payment must be made in full by the Saturday before the meeting. Pre-registered people who have not paid in full will be removed from the attendance list and may pay the walk in rate at the door.
Consider joining PNODN - members can save up to $10 per meeting - that's up to a $90 savings for the year.
