A Message from Ujima Donalson
Assistant Vice President,
Total Talent Management
Last issue, I spoke quite a bit about change because POD had just introduced two new offerings (The Learning Lab and the Leadership Café) and was in the midst of staffing changes. We are still on a roll, with a new program launched and staff to go with it, along with hires to replace two retirees. I invite you to read about the launch of the Partnership for Organizational Excellence and our new consultants below.
Change management is a perpetual hot topic among leaders, HR professionals and just about anyone in the training or OD world, but what we tend to not hear about as much is the aftercare. In POD, we’ve checked the boxes on many changes this year, but as a leader, in many ways the work of those changes has just begun. Read More
Interview with Jeff Leinaweaver: “A Place of Awe”
Jeff joined POD as a senior organizational development consultant in May, replacing Linda Callecod, who has retired.
What about your background most surprises people?
Gosh, there’s a lot. I used to play violin professionally, I’ve been a voiceover artist and I’ve been a professional storyteller for many years. I also worked as a journalist in Japan and at the UN in Geneva for the Associated Press and was employee number 800 at Amazon.
That is a lot! How did those things bring you to the work you do now?
I really believe in the power of developing potential and growing people. For me, the role of storytelling as a mindful practice is a big part of developing potential and growing people and organizations. It’s having the power to author our own stories as well as using narrative to draw out certain ideas or themes in ways that inspire and create new meaning. It’s about stories of making the impossible possible versus stories that become belief systems that do harm, limit growth, constrain the possible, become fake news, etcetera. Read More
Q&A with Josina Garnham
Josina joined POD as a training and organizational development consultant in April, replacing Lynne Lazaroff, who has retired.
You were with the Foster School of Business for several years. What kind of work did you do there?
At Foster, I managed a small team centered around providing experiential learning and leadership experiences for students, which helped them build a variety of skills. My role focused on developing partnerships with local companies and creating a pipeline of different types of projects for our students to get hands-on experience. Each quarter we’d partner with a company — Amazon, Mod Pizza, REI, Starbucks — and hundreds of students would compete on teams, crafting a solution to a real-world case around a strategic issue the company was facing and then presenting to representatives from Foster and ultimately the business community and company. Read more
Introducing: Partnership for Organizational Excellence
By Catherine Bachy and Keya Burks, Organizational Excellence Partners
We are delighted to launch POD’s new program for academic units: Partnership for Organizational Excellence. The purpose of this program is to support academic leaders and units with strategic goals, leadership and team development, and organizational needs. While these services are also available to both academic and administrative units through the University Consulting Alliance, the Partnership for Organizational Excellence is a University-supported program that serves academic units at a subsidized cost and with a dedicated team. Read more
The Learning Lab: Leadership Development When You Need It
The Learning Lab online platform delivers an immersive learning experience with a variety of content that can be watched, read, listened to, or downloaded. Highly targeted microlearning fits into your busy schedule, and subscriptions include a comprehensive leadership development program designed to support accelerated learning of leadership principles, encourage effective recall of concepts and facilitate dynamic workplace application. Access this PDF for an overview of the different topics available in the leadership development program and other areas.
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