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How can we best keep employees engaged in their work, in the current economic climate?A Gurteen Knowledge Cafe with guest speaker Dave Snowden, hosted by BT |
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I am delighted that Sharon Darwent, Head of Engagement at BT has offered to host a Gurteen Knowledge Cafe in February. This event is open to all members of the Gurteen Knowledge Community; the Cognitive-Edge Network and BT employees will also be participating. You can see the agenda below. If you are a Gurteen Knowledge Community member then please note that this Cafe will be held in the afternoon. The Cafe is free and includes a buffet lunch. Places are limited and will be made available on a first come first served basis. You should register below. Date: Tuesday 17th February 2009 12:00 - 16:00 Venue: BT Tower 60 Cleveland Mews Camden London W1T 4BG Agenda 12:00 - 13:00 Buffet lunch (60 mins) 13:00 - 14:00 Talk and Q&A by Dave Snowden (60 mins) 14:00 - 14:30 An introduction to the Knowledge Cafe by David Gurteen (30 mins) 14:30 - 14:45 Speed Networking (15mins) 14:45 - 16:00 Knowledge Cafe (75 mins) Cafe Talk and Question: How can we best keep employees engaged in their work, in the current economic climate? We live in a world of extreme uncertainty and rapid change, a world that requires us (to quote Lincoln) to think and act anew. Based on his award winning article on Leadership in the Harvard Business Review, Dave Snowden will outline a science based approach to decision making in the organisation. He will address questions of distributed decision making (erroneously known as the Wisdom of Crowds), narrative approaches to understanding the often unarticulated needs of employees and customers alike. Building on the success of social computing and natural network based solutions to complex problems (such as Micro-finance) he will outline a radical new way to reframe both strategic and everyday issues like employee engagement. Speaker: Dave Snowden David Snowden is the founder of Cognitive Edge. He is considered to be a pioneer in the field of complex adaptive systems and has developed and applied radical new approaches based on this thinking to organizations and industries from Government to Pharma. David and members of the Cognitive Edge Network have used these techniques to help companies manage their knowledge effectively, shift the perspectives and behaviors of their leadership teams, manage conflict, stimulate cultural change and engage employees in large scale change. David has a refreshing perspective on engagement that will provoke us to think differently about how we keep people engaged in these challenging times.
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