Session Number: 124

Session Title: "Brady Bunch" Learning for the Culturally-Diverse Enterprise

Steve G comment:  "Hey everyone, I'd love for you to come and join me in follow-up discussion about the material that I presented during this session.  I've posted a full copy of the materials that I presented on nGenera's learning and colleboration hub. 

Please join me there:  http://www.ngenera.com/external_groups/show/239-learning-2008-brady-bunch

Room Location: Coronado E

Day and Time: Monday, 10:00am - 11:00am

Session Format: Learning Story

Led by: Steve Guengerich - Chief Learning Officer - nGenera

Session Description: Remember the popular 70s sitcom? A lovely lady, handsome fellow and 6 children came together to form a new family. Similarly, in the business world, mergers and consolidations are common, creating new, diverse "families." Increasingly, one must know how to meet the "Brady Bunch" challenge of building a learning strategy and organization that addresses the needs of many culturally-diverse divisions, subsidiaries or major acquisitions. We'll explore unique problems and learning solutions for scaling a learning organization in this type of situation.

*: The newest thinking in change management: the influence model

*: Specific paths (and pitfalls) to building collaborative learning

*: Useful structures to target and shape shared, consistent attitudes

Session Excerpts: These are some of the key slides from the presentation.

*: Change model for Guinea worm

*: Influence model and data

*: Influence model 2x3

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