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Next Webinar, November 7, 2008

Please pre-register for the November 7 Webinar. David Fearon will moderate the webinar on Friday, November 7, 2008, from 2:00 p.m. EST. Pre-registrants will receive a reserved space and can expect a reminder e-mail a few days before the session.

At the 2006 OBTC, we inaugurated the concept of provocative conversations, inviting distinguished educators and scholars like Karl Weick, Bill Torbert, Victor Vroom, and others to facilitate small-group discussions on their work. We are extending these kinds of conversations beyond our annual conference and regional conferences in the form of electronic webinars. Our current strategy is a mixture of phone conferencing and web-based “whiteboards” to provide a forum where interested members can engage with innovative teachers and scholars on a range of topics. All sessions are recorded and will be archived on this website for future use.

Recent OBTS Webinar with Bill Torbert on April 25, 2008

We held the third in our inaugural OBTS Webinar Series on Friday, April 25, 2008, with Bill Torbert, Professor of Management at Boston College, will be disccusing "Transforming Cultures of Leadership."

The OBTS Webinar initiative aims to connect prominent management scholars with colleagues in a technology-mediated format that can serve many purposes. Not only will we learn more about these scholars’ work and have the opportunity to interact with them, we also may make new connections among our colleagues that can lead to future study groups, research initiatives and other professional development activities. Continuing conversations were also a part of our OBTC 2008 at Babson College.

In planning the series, we thought that not only learning more about what people do would be important, but also learning how they got to where they are and the challenges they see for the future. We are very pleased that Bill Torbert shared his story and work with us. Bill’s story is that of an entrepreneurial scholar offering us management educators a rich legacy of ideas and approaches for teaching, learning, and practice as action inquiry. He has pioneered and developed the action inquiry approach in his own work across a relatively wide spectrum of intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial leadership roles, from classroom teacher, to director or dean of a whole school, to consultant, to board member, to scholarship. Directly quoting from Bill’s web page http://www2.bc.edu/~torbert/

"The fundamental concern of Torbert since he entered the PhD program in Individual & Organizational Behavior at Yale in 1966 has been about how to practice social science in everyday life. - i.e. about how he (or we) can engage, in the midst of daily practice, in first-person research (e.g. observing what one really wants, what one is thinking, and what one is doing) in second-person research (e.g. encouraging public testing of attributions and assessments in real-time encounters and meetings, along with re-visioning, re- strategizing, re-acting, and re-assessing) and in third-person research (e.g. publicly testing propositions with persons not present through measures) and creating learning organizations that encourage first-, second-, and third-person research."

Bill completed a stage of his distinguished academic career in May, as he retired from Boston College. We learned that his passion for Transforming Cultures of Leadership remains as strong as ever and propels him to the next.

Vaill and Fearon Webinar Held in February 2008

The second OBTS webinar was held in February 2008 with Peter Vaill and Dave Fearon entitled “Reprising Superb Learning: Still Co-Inquirers After 38 Years.” Peter B. Vaill, well known and highly regarded by management educators for his evocative writings and exemplary teaching, was David Fearon’s first OB teacher in the first course he took in his doctoral program at the University of Connecticut back in 1971. The webinar focused on a co-inquiry model of teaching.

Bolman and Deal Webinar Held in October 2007

The first OBTS webinar was held in October 2007 with Lee Bolman and Terry Deal entitled "How We Got to Where We Are: An Odd Couple’s Odyssey to Wizard and Warrior." This initiative was designed to connect prominent management scholars with colleagues in a technology-mediated format that can serve many purposes. Dave Fearon was the moderator, and the webinar was co-sponsored by Drexel University's Lebow College of Business, Center for Teaching Excellence.

For more information about future webinars, please contact Joan Weiner, 215 895-1797.

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Jump to main site links Home Annual Conference Regional Conferences Webinars & Workshops Contact OBTS Join OBTS Members Area Jump to text	Jump to section links Webinars and Workshops Next Webinar, November 7, 2008 Please pre-register for the November 7 Webinar. David Fearon will moderate the webinar on Friday, November 7, 2008, from 2:00 p.m. EST. Pre-registrants will receive a reserved space and can expect a reminder e-mail a few days before the session. At the 2006 OBTC, we inaugurated the concept of provocative conversations, inviting distinguished educators and scholars like Karl Weick, Bill Torbert, Victor Vroom, and others to facilitate small-group discussions on their work. We are extending these kinds of conversations beyond our annual conference and regional conferences in the form of electronic webinars. Our current strategy is a mixture of phone conferencing and web-based “whiteboards” to provide a forum where interested members can engage with innovative teachers and scholars on a range of topics. All sessions are recorded and will be archived on this website for future use. Recent OBTS Webinar with Bill Torbert on April 25, 2008 We held the third in our inaugural OBTS Webinar Series on Friday, April 25, 2008, with Bill Torbert, Professor of Management at Boston College, will be disccusing "Transforming Cultures of Leadership." The OBTS Webinar initiative aims to connect prominent management scholars with colleagues in a technology-mediated format that can serve many purposes. Not only will we learn more about these scholars’ work and have the opportunity to interact with them, we also may make new connections among our colleagues that can lead to future study groups, research initiatives and other professional development activities. Continuing conversations were also a part of our OBTC 2008 at Babson College. In planning the series, we thought that not only learning more about what people do would be important, but also learning how they got to where they are and the challenges they see for the future. We are very pleased that Bill Torbert shared his story and work with us. Bill’s story is that of an entrepreneurial scholar offering us management educators a rich legacy of ideas and approaches for teaching, learning, and practice as action inquiry. He has pioneered and developed the action inquiry approach in his own work across a relatively wide spectrum of intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial leadership roles, from classroom teacher, to director or dean of a whole school, to consultant, to board member, to scholarship. Directly quoting from Bill’s web page http://www2.bc.edu/~torbert/ "The fundamental concern of Torbert since he entered the PhD program in Individual & Organizational Behavior at Yale in 1966 has been about how to practice social science in everyday life. - i.e. about how he (or we) can engage, in the midst of daily practice, in first-person research (e.g. observing what one really wants, what one is thinking, and what one is doing) in second-person research (e.g. encouraging public testing of attributions and assessments in real-time encounters and meetings, along with re-visioning, re- strategizing, re-acting, and re-assessing) and in third-person research (e.g. publicly testing propositions with persons not present through measures) and creating learning organizations that encourage first-, second-, and third-person research." Bill completed a stage of his distinguished academic career in May, as he retired from Boston College. We learned that his passion for Transforming Cultures of Leadership remains as strong as ever and propels him to the next. Vaill and Fearon Webinar Held in February 2008 The second OBTS webinar was held in February 2008 with Peter Vaill and Dave Fearon entitled “Reprising Superb Learning: Still Co-Inquirers After 38 Years.” Peter B. Vaill, well known and highly regarded by management educators for his evocative writings and exemplary teaching, was David Fearon’s first OB teacher in the first course he took in his doctoral program at the University of Connecticut back in 1971. The webinar focused on a co-inquiry model of teaching. Bolman and Deal Webinar Held in October 2007 The first OBTS webinar was held in October 2007 with Lee Bolman and Terry Deal entitled "How We Got to Where We Are: An Odd Couple’s Odyssey to Wizard and Warrior." This initiative was designed to connect prominent management scholars with colleagues in a technology-mediated format that can serve many purposes. Dave Fearon was the moderator, and the webinar was co-sponsored by Drexel University's Lebow College of Business, Center for Teaching Excellence. For more information about future webinars, please contact Joan Weiner, 215 895-1797. Site-use Guide Privacy Policy Site Map
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