Events
The GOOD Network provides a variety of events aimed at personal and professional development that include:
- Bi-monthly Knowledge Sharing meetings held Fridays from 8:30am-12:30pm. The programs are practical in nature, sharing tools, concepts, and providing contextual applications. By regularly surveying our members, we stay in touch with what your needs and interests are regarding program topics. Some topics from past meetings have included:
- Building Organizational Structures that Work
- Best Practices in Managing Conflict
- Gender and Generational Differences in Organizations
- Consulting Skills for OD Practitioners
- Leadership Development
- Quarterly Book Club Meetings
- Mentoring Program and Roundtables
- Annual Social/Networking Outing
For a historical listing of all past events along with the events that are coming in the near future, please visit the Schedule of All Events page.
2012 Bi-Monthly Meeting Dates:
- Bi-monthly Knowledge Sharing meetings in 2012 will continue to be held on Fridays from 8:30am-12:30pm. To help you plan your calendar, we've provided all meeting dates for this year, so please plan to join us:
- Feb 10, 2012
- Apr 20, 2012
- June 8, 2012 (Annual Best Practice Sharing Session)
- August 10, 2012
- October 12, 2012
- December 7, 2012
Bi-Monthly Meetings
The GOOD Network meets the second Friday of every other month from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Our meetings rotate throughout the Greater Orlando area and are hosted at our members' places of employment or colleges/universities. 50-60 members typically attend our meetings. It is free for a first-time guest to attend to check out the group before becoming a paid member. Join us at one of our upcoming meetings for "GOOD" networking and dialogue!
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Return to TopBook Club Meetings
Quarterly Book Club meetings offer another great way to stay involved with the GOOD Network while keeping up on the latest trends and growing professionally. The book club is a smaller, more informal sub-set of members that meet on a quarterly basis in the evenings to discuss a business book of choice that is relevant to the OD profession. The focus of our discussion is around how the techniques or theories discussed in the book can apply to our current practices. We typically meet on Thursday evenings from 6:30pm-8:30pm and locations vary around the Central Florida area (sometimes at a member’s home, sometimes at a restaurant).
Attendance is usually around 8-15 members, which offers a personalized and comfortable environment for discussion. Bringing a handout or summary of your thoughts about the book is encouraged as a take-away to share with other attendees.
Some of the past book club selections have included:
- Improving Performance (Rummler & Brache)
- True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (George & Sims)
- Building Strong Brands (Aaker)
- Leading Out Loud (Pearce)
- Follow this Path (Gallup)
- “Carrots” Books (Gostick & Elton)
- Emotional Intelligence (Goleman)
- Strategy Maps (Kaplan & Norton)
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The Coaching Interest Group focuses on serving the needs and interests of the coaching community within the GOOD Network. The objectives of the Coaching Group are to:- provide a community where those interested in the coaching field can informally discuss and share experience.
- provide a forum for learning new and/or different aspects of the evolving field of coaching.
- discuss books that are relevant to the coaching profession.
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Looking for an opportunity to spend time with senior-level, experienced OD professionals and gain knowledge to fuel your professional development? Don’t have quite enough time to commit to a mentor-mentee relationship? Then “mentoring roundtables” are the perfect opportunity for you. Mentoring roundtable sessions are facilitated by senior-level members of the GOOD Network and focus on their specific area of expertise. The target audience would include more junior members of the GOOD Network (first-time attendees are also welcome), students, or others looking to learn more about the specific discussion topic.
Mentoring roundtables are typically held once or twice per year directly following one of our bi-monthly meetings over a pizza lunch. Some of our previous topics have included:
- So, You Wanna Break into OD?
- Internal vs. External Consulting: Which One is for You?
- Change Management focusing on “Tools for Change” HBR article
- OD, Training, and Performance Consulting: What’s the Difference?
Social Events
On an annual basis in the spring, GOOD Network hosts a Social/Networking event that provides a more relaxed and informal opportunity to get together with your GOOD colleagues. These are typically 2-3 hour events that are held on a Saturday and guests (including family and friends) are welcome. Examples of some of our past events have included lunch on the Rivership Romance in Sanford, a night of laughter at the SAK Comedy Lab in downtown Orlando, and lunch at Dexter’s in Winter Park along with a trip to the Orlando Museum of Art. We enjoy supporting various Central Florida businesses and attractions and encourage you to contact us with your ideas for future events.
Return to TopSpecial Interest Groups
Special Interest Group (SIG) events will be planned by the SIG leader and may vary in structure and format based on the topic for discussion. As events are formed, they will be posted here for anyone to RSVP and join if they are interested. Stay tuned to the website for events to be posted here as SIGs begin to formalize.View Special Interest Groups Events >>
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