American Society for
Training & Development - Southern CT chapter meeting (ASTD-SCC)
Monday, April 13,
2015, 5:45-8:00 PM
Norwalk Inn and
Conference Center, Norwalk, CT
Yes, You
Can Simplify Your Organization!
How to
Identify the Complexity We Create and Do Something About It
Speaker:
Ron Ashkenas, Senior Partner, Schaffer Consulting
Over the
past decade globalization, technology, regulations and new business models have
dramatically increased the complexity of many organizations. Faced with toao
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 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). In addition, he is the
author/co-author of over 100 articles and five books, including with Dave
Ulrich and Steve Kerr, The GE Work-Out (McGraw-Hill,
2002). Ron Received his BA from Wesleyan University, his EdM from Harvard
University, and his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve
University.
FREE WEBCAST OPTION
If you
cannot attend the meeting in person, we will provide a link that will let
you view a webcast, live from the meeting at the Norwalk Inn! Discover Video will do the webcast and
archive a copy. Check back later for the link to view the presentation.
Monday,
January 26, 2015
Norwalk Inn and
Conference Center
99 East Avenue,
Norwalk CT
203-838-2000
Registration
Chapter Member
(pre-registered) - $37.00
Chapter Member
In-Transition - $25.00
Guest - $50.00
Student - $20.00
Schedule
Networking:
5:45 PM
Dinner Served: 6:30 PM
Program: 6:45-8 PM
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