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Making the Business Case for Playspace at Work
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Two Session to Choose From!
Morning: 7:45 – 9:45 a.m. (7:45-8:15 continental breakfast & networking; 8:15-9:45 program)
Location: DePaul University, 1 East Jackson Blvd, Chicago—11 th floor, DePaul Club (just outside of the cafeteria) Directions: 1 East Jackson is between Wabash and State. Enter through the Barnes & Noble Bookstore on Jackson. Walk through the bookstore; elevators are in the lobby on the left; to the 11th floor; the DePaul Club is just before the cafeteria, on the left side.
Evening: 5:45-7:45 p.m. (5:45-6:15 dinner & networking; 6:15-7:45 program)
Location: DePaul University, O’Hare Campus, 3166 South River Road, Des Plaines, Il. 60018 (Room 224) Directions: The O’Hare campus is the second building on the northwest corner of Devon Ave. & River Road. Parking is free. The CTA Blue line, Rosemont stop, is ½ mile from the campus. PACE buses and the Metra also run near the campus.
Making the Business Case for Playspace at Work: to increase employee engagement and productivity
Trainers and facilitators are facing increasing pressures to accomplish more with less time and fewer resources, and yet are asked to be more innovative and to increase learning outcomes. Studies show that engaged participants retain and transfer more learning, and are more creative and likely to respond positively to the unexpected and unplanned. In this highly experiential session, you'll learn strategies to transform a high-pressure workplace into playspace for innovating, learning, and changing. In playspace, there's space for more play in the system, for the play of new ideas and perspectives, for people to play new roles and develop new capacities, and for improvised play. You'll learn how to create playspace in your organization using a variety of strategies including those inspired by improvisation and other collaborative arts. You'll learn how to consistently create space for dynamic engagement to make innovating, learning, and changing ongoing organizational processes, rather than rare events.
Learning Outcomes—Participants will take away:
• Specific exercises and practices to create and sustain playspace for innovating, learning, and changing in your training sessions and organizations.
• Elements of building a business case to influence leaders in your setting to invest in playspace strategies to enhance employee engagement and productivity.
• Renewed spirit of play to help navigate and learn within high pressure environments.
Bonus: The presenter’s new book (March 2010) From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning, and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement will be available for sale at discounted rate for CCASTD participants.
2nd Bonus: Participants may purchase the book at discounted cover price of $32 and receive a coupon for a 20-minute phone consultation with the author.
This event is being co-hosted by The Center to Advance Education for Adults (CAEA), School for New Learning, DePaul University.
Presenter: Pamela Meyer, PhD, draws on more than fifteen years of organizational development experience and the latest research to support clients who want to create dynamic workspaces for innovating, learning and changing. She works with organizations worldwide using the improvisation strategies she learned in her years building creative teams in the professional theater. Today she combines innovative strategies from artistic collaboration with cutting edge management research and practice to help her clients work at the top of their creative, intellectual and energetic capacity.
PAMELA MEYER is the author of From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement (Jossey-Bass, 2010)
and Quantum Creativity: Nine Principles to Transform the Way You Work (McGraw/Contemporary, 2000), and has contributed two chapters to edited books on transformative learning, as well as numerous articles and papers.
PAMELA MEYER received her doctorate in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University; she holds Master of Arts degrees from Antioch University and Fielding Graduate University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Boston University's School for Theatre Arts. In addition to her work with organizations, she teaches courses in business creativity, improvisation and organization theory at DePaul University, where she is a Faculty Fellow at both the Center to Advance Education for Adults in the School for New Learning and the Center for Creativity and Innovation, part of the College of Commerce and the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
Cost: Members - $30; Students - $20; Non-Members - $40; Alliance Members - $30
**A $10 Late Fee will be added to anyone who registers after June 3 rd, 2010
Please register as early as possible to help us plan for food/beverage order.
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