Yes, You Can Simplify Your Organization! ASTD-SCC 9/22 meeting

American Society for Training & Development - Southern CT chapter meeting (ASTD-SCC)

Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, 5:45-8:00 PM
Speaker: Ron Ashkenas, Schaffer Consulting

Over the past decade globalization, technology, regulations and new business models have dramatically increased the complexity of many organizations. Faced with too many choices, processes, and facts, managers often feel that they are working longer hours but getting less and less done. Unfortunately, a large portion of the complexity that managers must navigate is self-generated.
 
In this session, Ron Ashkenas will discuss some of the common ways that we create unnecessary complexity in organizations and what we can do about it.
 
Attendees will learn how to:
·         Understand the four main types of unnecessary complexity in organizations;
·         Gain self-insight into ways that we and our colleagues unintentionally create complexity;
·         Identify ways to begin addressing complexity in our organization or with our clients.
 
Ron Ashkenas is a senior partner with Schaffer Consulting in Stamford, CT and an internationally recognized consultant, executive coach, and speaker on organizational transformation, post-merger integration and simplification. Ron is an Executive in Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and the author of Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done (Harvard Press, 2010)
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EVENT DETAILS
Date: Monday, September 22, 2014
Time: 5:45 PM Networking/Registration.
6:15 PM Heavy Hors d'Oeuvres and Program
$37 Chapter Members; $50 Guests; $20 Students
 
Reservation Deadline: Friday, September 19, 2014
Meeting Location: Norwalk Inn and Conference Center, 99 East Avenue, Norwalk, CT
 
To register or for more information, visit http://www.astdscc.org/event-916495