November: Planning for 2023 Programs + More [11/10/22]

Planning for 2023 ODNet Programs    

This year our November annual planning meeting will again be virtual, but we will do more than just planning.  As knowledge workers the emerging reality is we are working in a hybrid world, and to “work hybrid” we need new tools, skills, and habits!

Today, at minimum, we must be familiar with virtual meeting tools such as Zoom, as well as virtual collaboration tools (such as Google Docs, Mural, and similar tools). To facilitate this innovative planning activity we will be using multiple virtual collaboration tools and processes to ensure that this planning meeting will be a learning experience as well!

We will do the official program planning at the ‘main event’ on November 10. That evening we will see and hear each other on Zoom and we will document our work on Mural.  But some of the most important work happens before the meeting, where we will asynchronously gather your suggestions in a shared brainstorming document.

We need your help to gather as many ideas as possible BEFORE the meeting.  Here is a link to the initial Idea Gathering / Brainstorming Document for 2023 — please begin adding your ideas and suggestions to this doc immediately!   What topics and/or speakers would you like to see?  (In this document you can also see the suggestions of others, which may offer synergies!)

Then, at the November 10 meeting, we will be working synchronously using Zoom and Mural — addressing the same task at the same time from different locations.  This will include discussing, categorizing, and voting on the 2023 proposals.

Call to Action: 

1. Make a reservation to join us at the November 10 meeting (if you can)!
2. Join us asynchronously to engage in idea generation – please suggest potential 2023 program topics for us to consider at the 11/10 meeting (using above link).
3. Join us at the November 10 meeting to help categorize, vote, and select the finalists!

We look forward to working with you on this virtual co-creation collaboration!  We hope you can join us on November 10 and/or before!

Main Facilitator:  Pete Sorenson  –   {see Bio below}

      
(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)

  
Schedule for Thursday Evening November 10:  (CT)    
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros  
   –  7:15  Program Begins Promptly    
   –  8:45  Closing and Wrap Up
   –  9:00  Program Ends

Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.

Facilitator BIO:   
     
Pete Sorenson will be our primary facilitator / moderator / convener / provocateur – but others will help!

Peter Jay Sorenson, CMC®  is an independent strategic organization design and change management consultant, coach, social entrepreneur, university instructor, and ethicist.  His professional focus is to collaborate on and discover and create the next generation of organization design technology that can match the speed of change and disruption in this volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous, (VUCA) digitally fueled world. (And on developing the next generation of organization designers that will make this world work from a values, effectiveness, and efficiency points of view.)

Personally his focus has been on using innovation to create economic and social self-reliance for individuals, families, and organizations in both the developing and developed world.