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The Center for Human Systems PRESENTS

THE POWER LAB AT AIRLIE HOUSE

Featuring Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. and Heather Berthoud, M.S.

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POWER IS ESSENTIAL…
for those of us wanting to accomplish important goals. Whether your goals are professional or personal you can gain the power you need to achieve them at the POWER LAB @ AIRLIE HOUSE

A WEEK LONG PROGRAM FOR…
Individuals who are interested in increasing their power and ability to manage personal, professional, and/or organizational change. Anyone wanting to increase their personal or organizational power for application at home or at work will get significant value from the Power Lab @ Airlie House. At the same time the program will be of particular interest to internal and external change management and organization development practitioners, organizational leaders and managers.

THE PROGRAM
Acquiring the power and influence to manage change in our organizations, at home, or just for ourselves is often an uphill battle requiring considerable personal power and influence. Accordingly, The Power Lab at Airlie House focuses on developing our ability to consciously manage our beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and behavior-conscious use of self. By doing so, we can discover and access the enormous power that is inherently ours, begin to put and end to the myriad ways we disempower ourselves, and learn how to create the support we need to accomplish our goals and our dreams.

In the program you will:
• Discover within yourself the power to accomplish your organizational and personal change goals.
• Learn how to create support systems needed for personal and organizational change.
• Move toward mastery of seven transformative disciplines of change management defined by Broom and Edie and Charlie Seashore at Johns Hopkins University.
• Work with differences so that they become sources of learning and synergy rather than sources of adversity and hostility.
• Play win/win while influencing others to support you and your goals.
• Empower others to improve their performance on behalf of organizational and personal goals.
• Remove the stress of power struggles from your relationships at work and your personal life and prevent unwanted power abuse.

THE FORMAT
This is an extraordinary program that uses theory, group discussion, experiential exercises, introspection, meditations, role plays, outdoor work, individual coaching, and other equally potent learning modalities to immediately enhance your change management skills.

THE PARTICIPANTS
If you are someone interested in increasing your ability to manage personal and organizational change and you are willing to learn from deep self-reflection and experiential group-processes, this program is for you.

THE STAFF
Heather Berthoud, M.S. and Michael F. Broom, Ph.D. are both seasoned change management professionals well known in the field. In addition, Michael is a skilled psychologist who has learned how to the dynamically relate the arenas of personal empowerment and human systems change. Heather's amalgamation of social activism, martial arts, and organization development skill make the two of them a powerful combination.

Heather has been providing capacity-building and organization development consulting services for over 15 years. She believes deeply in everyone's inherent excellence. Seeing people and organizations reach their potential despite their uncertainty gives her great joy. Heather is known for being forthright, focused, and humorous. As a long-time student and teacher of Tae Kwon Do, Heather maintains the discipline, calm, and positive expectancy of the martial arts. A committed teacher, Heather is also an adjunct faculty of the AU/NTL masters program in Organization Development and a member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. Heather is co-founder of Berthoud/Greene Consultants LLC, which specializes in providing organization development support to mission-centered organizations. She can often be heard saying, "Life is short. Enjoy it and make a difference."

Michael has been consulting internally and externally for over 25 years with all types of organizations--for profit, not for profit, and government. He has served on the board of the NTL Institute and chaired its Transformative Social Change Committee. He has been on the faculties of Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and American Universities. He is the co-author with Don Klein of Power: The Infinite Game and sole author of The Infinite Organization published Sept. 2002. In 2001, he founded the Center for Human Systems (www.ChumanS.com) designed to support the growth and development of change management practitioners. The Center for Human Systems also sponsors the nine-month Practitioners Programs in Columbia, Maryland, Philadelphia and New York City.

Payment plans and are available.

Cancellations: Refunds of 50% will be allowed for cancellations prior to August 15. There will be no refund of tuition for cancellations after September 15.

Contact Tony Richard, 240 988-8233, Tony@ChumanS.com or Michael Broom, 410 730-1601, Michael@ChumanS.com

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