INVITATION

Business Coaching International:

Dialogic Organization Development

and Organizational Coaching in an International Context.

International INOC Meeting

May, 29th and 30st 2015 in Wiesloch / Germany

There is an effort started in Germany, to build the

INOC International Network for

Organizational Development and Coaching.

To prepare a kickoff meeting in 2016 we invite all colleagues and guest for a

preliminary meeting to Wiesloch close to Heidelberg.

The Meeting will cover three topics:

Dialogic Organization Development (DOD) Gervase Bushe, Professor of Leadership and Organization Development,

Vancouver, Canada, his co-authors as Dr. Joachim Schwendenwein, Austria,

Dr. Jacob Storch, Denmark, and Michael Roehrig, Germany (to be confirmed)

Organizational Coaching (OC) and Systemic Organization

Development (OD) Dr. Bernd Schmid, isb-Wiesloch, Germany

Enterprise Coaching and Business Project Coaching Gianfranco Goeta, Senior Member of the SCOA Institute Milan, Italy

The working language will be English. In addition to the 3 presentations, there

will be plenty of time in order to exchange experiences, prepare cooperations,

sharpen the INOC Concept and prepare next steps.

The Meeting starts May 29th, at 10.00, until 30th, at 17.00

Background Information about INOC:

There is an effort started in Germany, to build the INOC (International Network

for Organizational Development and Coaching). Indeed, a task force consisting of

dedicated colleagues (all of them DBVC members) is engaged in order to involve

colleagues based in other countries. These colleagues residing abroad are supposed to be

active in organization oriented coaching and consulting, or in people oriented

organization development. In addition to their own business, they should be prepared to

represent this orientation and to set up a professional community in their country.

It is obvious that in existing international coaching associations such a specialization is

missing just as it is the fact in associations of organization development. For this reason,

we believe this new approach to be useful to reach our goal. see INOC Mission & Vision

http://www.systemische-

professionalitaet.de/isbweb/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,222

0/. Since a lot of clarifying dialogues are still required, we need time until May 2016 in

order to prepare the international kickoff meeting in Heidelberg.

Meeting in 2015 near Heidelberg for all interested German-speaking

people and foreign guests

The response to INOC from German-speaking countries is significant. We found the idea

challenging to meet exactly with those colleagues and some freeing guests for 2 days to

whom dialogical organization development, organizational coaching, and international

focus equally is at heart.

Especially for an international network, we need to join forces and develop common

characteristics of related approaches coming from different traditions and being

differently united in other countries. For all those, the Heidelberg meeting in 2015 is the

place to be.

This meeting is all about connecting organizational coaching with organization

development, experiences in international projects and strengthening international

cooperation. The meeting is organized by the isb-Wiesloch in cooperation with the DBVC.

This collegial meeting is provided at a cost-covering registration fee (no compensations).

The working language will be English. In addition to 3 presentations, there will be plenty

of time in order to exchange experiences and prepare cooperations. Also, we will use the

meeting for the recording of videos used for further INOC work.

Who is invited?

Invited are internal or external professionals dealing with Organization Development,

cultural development, coaching, and consulting. Apart from working with individuals

from organizations, they should have developed a clear orientation in the work with

organizations or seeking to do so; or they should as Organization Development experts

want to clearly align to the people involved; and they should be experienced in

international field. So we need in the first step pioneers and founders. You are welcome

to pass this invitation on to appropriate parties. The intention is to build a clearly

oriented but open network.

The Speakers and Presentations:

Dialogic Organization Development (DOD)

Gervase Bushe, Professor of Leadership and Organization Development, Vancouver,

Canada, can not definitely confirm the date of this meeting. However, his co-authors

as Dr. Joachim Schwendenwein, Austria, Dr. Jacob Storch, Denmark, and Michael

Roehrig, Germany are ready to represent the approach.

Since several years, a new direction of Organization Development is emerging in Canada

and the United States which is the DialogicOrganization Development (DOD). Unlike

the Diagnostic Organization Development, the Organization Development is defined as

the art of forming dialogic Organization Development processes by those responsible.

Within this approach, all known classical approaches can still be used, however, with a

different mindset. Thus, primarily it is a recast of Organization Development as dialogic

process. The theoretical positioning of this approach, the intellectual and historical

fundamentals, as well as the definitions of professionalism and practice will be described

in the book „Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of

Transformational Change“ by Gervase R. Bushe & Robert J. Marshak, editors, to be

published in 2015. Extracts from this book can be found

at http://www.dialogicod.net/resources.html and http://www.dialogicod.net/book.html

This book attracts considerable respect in advance which can be found

at http://www.dialogicod.net/endorse.html. Thus, Ed Schein writes: ... "Dialogic

Organization Development (OD) could not have arrived at a better time. The assumptions

underlying it and some of the goals for social change and improvement that it articulates

are not only build on an important historical legacy but reinforce those aspects of OD that

will be most needed in the future."

Organizational Coaching (OC) and

Systemic Organization Development (OD)

Dr. Bernd Schmid, isb-Wiesloch, Germany

Published in 2014, the book „Systemic OD – Change and Organizational Culture build

together“, edited by Bernd Schmid, is written by isb-affiliated authors presenting an

understanding of Organization Development and coaching culture, an approach very

similar to the DOD. In addition to the description of systemic Organization Development

and cultural development, the book emphasizes the practical implementations, the

integrated Organization Development learning, and the strategic use of coaching. These

approaches are summarized, too, under the term of organizational coaching. You find

additional information in German in the Coaching Newsletter September 2014 and under

the link http://www.coaching-magazin.de/archiv/2014/2014_03_interview_schmid.htm.

Furthermore, you will find charts and audios under the link http://www.systemische-

professionalitaet.de/isbweb/content/view/577/536.

In English: CCS010 - Day 5 - 2 10 - OD-approach and culture of leadership.ppt

Enterprise Coaching and Business Project Coaching

Gianfranco Goeta, Senior Member of the SCOA Institute Milan, Italy

You will find an English presentation of SCOA here http://www.systemische-

professionalitaet.de/isbweb/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,222

1/

The SCOA training program is certified by the WABC (http://www.wabccoaches.com/)

and, thus, a connection to the worldwide established company for business coaching.

Gianfranco in his mail to us says: "In my perspective there is a third challenge to face, in

order to increase the effectiveness of interventions aiming at an improvement of the

organizational functioning and of individuals within organizations. This challenge consists

in deepening the understanding of the business factors affecting organizational change.

The link between individual and organization is not enough. The business dimension must

be added in order to comprehend all the critical variables having an impact on the whole

process."

When and where register?

Interested participants please register using the attached application form. Please ad a

short self-characterization and description of your interests associated with your

participation.

And beyond?

Meeting 2016 will be on June 7th to 11th in Heidelberg. The main focus will be on

international participants.

With best regards

Bernd Schmid

Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter

isb GmbH

Systemische Professionalität

Schlosshof 1 · 69168 Wiesloch

Fon: +49 (0) 6222 81881

Fax: +49 (0) 6222 51452

Email: schmid@isb-w.eu

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