Learning Together: the secret of high-
performing teams and organisations,
October 4-6, 2004, Paris, France

Purpose: To explore the key roles of leaders in building learning teams and organisations as a means of creating inspired organisational performance.

Guest Speaker:  Alain Gauthier (see bio below)

Schedule
The Forum will take place at: La Maison de l'Amerique Latine, 217, Boulevard Saint Germain, 75007 Paris

• Soirée d’Introduction: October 4, 18:00 - 21:30 (en français)
• Main Event: October 5, 8:00 - 18:00 (in English)
• In-depth Workshop: October 6, 9:00 - 13:00 (in English)

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Who Should Attend?

Business, Community, Academic, and Government Leaders

Benefits

• Gain a deeper understanding of why organisational learning is a key competitive advantage
• Shift your perspective on your organisation's leadership challenges
• Share experiences and insights with leaders from other organisations
• Practice some of the disciplines of collective learning
• Experience what cross-organisational learning can offer
• Have an opportunity to join a community of practice

Description of Event

Over the last decade, we have witnessed an enormous expansion in the flow of information as well as the creation of new ways to communicate that were previously unthinkable.  Along with these new capabilities, however, we are also experiencing increased complexity and uncertainty.

In this Forum, Alain Guathier shows how collective learning is the key to competitive advantage in the information age.  As we learn together information is transformed into knowledge, and meaning emerges out of the surrounding noise.

Those leaders who are able to harness people's natural curiosity, desire to learn, and search for meaning will create high-performance organisations that adapt quickly to their environment and create additional value.

This Forum will enable leaders to see their role in a new light.  Not only will the tools that support collective learning be presented, but participants will experience them directly as well.

About Alain Gauthier

Alain Gauthier's current focus as a consultant, facilitator, and educator is on executive team development as a prerequisite for cultivating deep and lasting change in organisations.  He has served over the past 39 years a large variety of client organisations in Europe and the United States, including Hewlett Packard, Shell, Groupe Danone, The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, and Oxfam.  He is currently the Executive Director of Core Leadership Development in Oakland, CA and devotes half of his time to his clients in Europe.

Alain has supervised and prefaced the French adaptation of Peter Senge's highly acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization, as well as two of its sequels.  He is a co-author of Action Inquiry: the Secret of Timely and Transformative Leadership.

Alain is a co-founder of the Society for Organisational Learning (SoL) in Boston and SoL France in Paris.  He is currently a visiting professor in the MBA program at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris.

Co-Sponsor

This event is co-sponsored by The Oxford Group.  The Oxford group provides international leadership, management development and coaching solutions for the world's most respected organisations. 

For more Information contact Janna De Waard at info@depresentatiegroep.nl or to register by phone call: +33 (0)1 34.58.72.50 or +44 (0)1993 880811

Communities: ILA-Europe: October 4-6, Paris, France event