ASTD Mt. Diablo Chapter invites you

to learn about the Compromise Trap

Unhealthy Pressure: How Businesses Inadvertently Push Employees into Compromises that Undermine Success…. And How to Stop

Leaders at every level are exerting enormous effort to generate results in today’s unforgiving business climate.  Yet a deeper look shows that employees often feel pressured to compromise in ways that undermine organizational success, and that they go along reluctantly, convinced they have no choice if they want to keep their jobs. How can this be… and how can organizations stop?  Drawing on 17 years’ experience as an organizational learning consultant, along with 52 interviews with professionals in a variety of fields, Elizabeth Doty will share how unhealthy pressure to compromise gets created, often unintentionally, and what it takes to convince employees to speak up rather than going along with ill-conceived plans. Using several first-hand accounts to spark our thinking, she will then open up a discussion of the leadership practices, follower skills, and team norms that minimize the risks of unhealthy compromise and help organizations increase their effectiveness and integrity.

Presenter:  Elizabeth Doty is a consultant, coach, and facilitator with WorkLore (www.WorkLore.com), which specializes in how people participate in large organizations while staying true to themselves and contributing to their organization’s effectiveness and integrity. Since earning her MBA from Harvard and joining a reengineering firm in 1991, she has both subscribed to the "official story" of business and lived through the contradictions and absurdities of everyday organizational life. Time in the trenches in a variety of industries, including 11 years in hospitality management, gave her the chance to talk with over 400 people about the challenges, triumphs and dilemmas of doing work they are proud of, and form the core ideas in her book, The Compromise Trap. For the past 17 years, Ms. Doty and WorkLore have partnered with leaders in organizations of all sizes to harvest the insights and opportunities hidden in those experiences.

To register:   Register online at mtdiabloastd.org, or contact our Registrar and pay at the door:   Haruka Yamashita :  haruka6521@gmail.com or (408) 219-8639

Walk-ins are welcome. But pre-registration helps us order the right number of dinners.

Tues, November 16, 2010

5:30 PM Informal networking/exchanges about professional opportunities officially begins

6:00 PM Dinner

6:30 PM Keynote Speaker                                                                   

7:30 PM Adjourn 

8:00 PM Board Meeting (Open to members and non-member guests)                                       

Location:

Crow Canyon Country Club
711 Silver Lake Drive
Danville, California 94526
925-735-5700

Directions from 680:

• Take Crow Canyon Blvd East.
• Go left on El Capitan (Tahiti to the right).
• First right into Crow Canyon.
• Tell the guard you are attending a program for ASTD at the Club.
• Clubhouse and parking entrance to your left about 100 yards. Plenty of free parking.