Dear Colleagues,
  Please join us for a Consulting Convergence.  In particular, we are seeking leaders for the next hosting team to host future Consulting Convergences.  New SoL Japan Members are especially encouraged to join a Hosting Team, as a great way to meet people and introduce yourselves!
  

  
  SoL Japan Consulting Convergence:  Cross-Cultural Training for Organizations     Society for Organizational Learning Japan
  
  Sunday, July 20, 2008
  Fee: Free
  Location: Omotesando TELL Compound, Tokyo
  To register: Email Tish Robinson, Hitotsubashi University ICS: このメールアドレスは、スパムロボットから保護されています。アドレスを確認するにはJavaScriptを有効にして下さい
  
  For more about SoL Japan: http://www.soljapan.org/   
  For more about SoL: http://www.solonline.org/
  
  
  Heidi Sparkes Guber and Alain Gauthier from SoL America will be coming to Tokyo Sunday, July 20, 2008, for a Consulting Convergence on Cross-Cultural Training, after they lead the GET Leadership training at Nissan.  This is a get together where we bring and exchange ideas, based on the
 assumption that our ideas will be properly cited and credited, advancing all involved.
  
  We welcome your input on exercises and simulations you would like to share or introduce. 
  
  If you would like to join the hosting team, please email Tish Robinson, このメールアドレスは、スパムロボットから保護されています。アドレスを確認するにはJavaScriptを有効にして下さい .
  
  Thus far, we have the following activities planned:
  l        Alain has kindly offered to contribute by starting a conversation on the findings and questions emerging out of a nine-month global survey of integral leadership development programs (including ELIAS) that he has just completed: www.alaingauthier.org, Email: このメールアドレスは、スパムロボットから保護されています。アドレスを確認するにはJavaScriptを有効にして下さい
  l        AWAKA Simulation, from Discovery Learning, which provides simulations to the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina: http://www.discoverylearning.com/products/Simulations.aspx
  l        MHA Culture Cards as a Consulting Tool (MHA is a SoL Member) http://www.mhainstitute.ca/Default.aspx?tabid=674
  
  July 20 Workshop Description:
  As more and more firms undergo mergers and acquisitions in Japan, these firms are faced with the need to address various cultures operating at once, both national cultural differences and organizational cultural differences.  One of the greatest challenges for any manager is how to address these
 varying cultures and their underlying assumptions.
  
  Participants will be provided with:
  l        Tools for helping organizations explore cultural differences
  l        Research on Culture
  l        A great opportunity to network with new people and find out what ideas are out there!
  
 
 
  
  Workshop:          SoL JAPAN CONSULTING CONVERGENCE
  Registration: Email Tish Robinson, Hitotsubashi University ICS:
                      このメールアドレスは、スパムロボットから保護されています。アドレスを確認するにはJavaScriptを有効にして下さい
                             with “PW Workshop” in the Subject Line by June 26
  Date:                  Sunday, July 20, 10-4pm
  Language:                        This workshop will be conducted in English, with Japanese translation if a   sufficient number of Japanese sign up.
  Location:            TELL Compound: 5-4-22 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
                             http://tokyoroom.atspace.com/map.htm.
  
  
  Directions to Workshop Location  
  TELL Compound: 5-4-22 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062, See Map at Bottom
  
  7 minute walk from Omotesando Subway Station (Ginza, Hanzomon, and Chiyoda Lines).
  
  Using the B1 exit, at street level walk straight in the same direction that you are already going. You will be walking along Aoyama Dori until you come to the first corner where Max Mara is. Turn left here and continue approx 300 meters to the third set of traffic lights. This corner has ‘Rev K
 Shoes’, ‘Kenzo’ and ‘Hunting World’. (There is Starbucks and ‘Popular’ convenience store on the left just before the corner.) Turn left here and walk about 30-40 meters. On the left, you will find a housing compound with a two-tone gray brick wall and a large green iron gate. There is no
 sign outside the gate except for the address: 5-4-22 Minami Aoyama.
  
  From the A5 exit, turn right, so that you are walking away from Aoyama Dori, and continue straight from the exit for appox 300 meters, passing the Prada building, until you come to a brick building called ‘From 1st’.  (There is an elementary school opposite this.)  Turn right here and walk
 approx 200 meters until you find the housing compound on your right with a two-tone brick wall and a large green iron gate.  The address ‘5-4-22 Minami Aoyama’ is written on the wall by the gate.  Please come through this gate by its door on the right.  If you reach the corner with ‘Rev K
 shoes’ on it, you have gone too far!
  
  Inside the compound, the Meeting Room (A104) is in the last building on the left.
  
  
  MAP: TELL Compound: 5-4-22 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
  
 

Patricia Robinson, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy
2-1-2-712 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8439, Japan
Cell: (81) 90-7424-1159,    Fax: (81) 3-3482-4478,    Email: このメールアドレスは、スパムロボットから保護されています。アドレスを確認するにはJavaScriptを有効にして下さい
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