Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Postcards from Portland, Day III







The third day of the 2006 ELP Trainer's Conference is dedicated to organizational change. Primarily the agenda for today is made up of presentations by the personnel of agencies that are participating in the "Good to great" program presenting their stories. Speakers have been or are scheduled to be representatives from three Oregon-based organizations, Tri-Counties Regional Center and groups from Canada and the United Kingdom.

Michael Smull requested that the name "Good to great" be used very intentionally by only groups who have formally committed to a mutual learning process. I'm still waiting for the "insight of the day," and this post will be updated this afternoon.

OK, the insight of the day today comes from Dave Mulvay of Tri-Counties Regional Center in a private conversation (I'll check later if it's ok to share this) that the IPP and the ISP can be a single shared document providing the service coordinator assurance that they understand the focus of the agency's work and the vendor assurance that those areas where creativity and risk are accepted that creativity and risk will be tolerated.

5 Comments:

Blogger Ariel the Thief said...

you are very optimistic. Buddha himself spent years looking for the insight. although it's true that he didn't visit any conferences.

7/26/2006 11:04 AM  
Blogger Doug The Una said...

Thanks, Ariel. If Buddha had attended more conferences he would have sooner attained perfection as a tiger.

7/26/2006 3:21 PM  
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7/26/2006 9:27 PM  
Blogger Minka said...

I am so very proud of you. You considered asking permission for quoting after publishing.
You are getting better, may *insert any God of choice here* be with you!

8/23/2006 7:25 PM  
Blogger Doug The Una said...

Why, thank you Minka. I always try to do the right thing sometimes.

8/24/2006 1:05 AM  

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