Greetings from Accra, Ghana.
We take this opportunity to wish you all the best as we enter a new year.
The IODA2008 Secretariat is pleased to advise that you can now register for IODA2008. Please visit the conference website at http://www.iodaghana.net/ today!! A limited number of conference scholarships are also available.
We also invite you to be present a paper, lead a workshop or run an early-bird exercise every conference day morning. Check out the CALL FOR PAPERS pages on the website.
One interesting feature of your 2008 conference is that the sessions of the IODA 2008 Conference will be woven around sub-themes that have been best described via African Proverbs. You may therefore present your proposals for a presentation, workshop, seminar on any of the sub-themes stated below:
ST1
Collaborative Paradigms for Development and Growth
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together
ST2
Putting to Good the Resonance and Echoes from Conflict
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. So, if you want someone more knowledgeable than yourself to identify a bird you do not first remove the feathers.
ST3
Push-Pull Effects and Lessons for Tutelage, Coaching and Mentoring
Until Lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter
ST4
System Dynamics & Organisational Behaviour for Professional Development
It is the person whose child has been eaten by a witch who best knows the evils of witchcraft
ST5
Perils, Benefits and Future of Partnerships
The chief's son has to collect firewood when destiny destroys him
ST6
Diversity, Relativity and Relevance for Partnerships
The person who has eaten and satisfied himself or herself does not care for the one who is hungry
ST7
Learning Organisations and Organisational Learning : Unless organizations allow partnership opportunities to permeate their boundaries, they will not only lose innovative energies but also have reduced chances of learning from others
Due to shyness, the tortoise died in a boat
ST8
Strengths, Dominance, Common Sense & Partnership Equity
Provided no person stunts or destroys a sprouting palm kernel seedling, it will definitely grow into a palm tree
ST9
Ethics & Regulatory Issues
The hunter in pursuit of an elephant does not stop to throw stones at birds
We look forward to hearing from you
With the best of Regards
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The Conference Secretariat
http://www.iodaghana.net/ or http://www.odghana.org/
Telephones:
+233-28-8285082 or +233-28-6344264
+233-28-3139977 or +233-24-3139977
Monday, December 31, 2007
Monday, December 24, 2007
Sights of Ghana!!
Our beautiful country, Ghana, beckons you!! One of things that you must plan to do is to see a bit of the country when you come.
There is indeed quite a lot to see and do when you are here in Ghana. Festivals, places of interest, things and activities to volunteer for, just plain travel and relaxation. oh! and there is more!!!
Everybody gets our infectious smile and a feel and taste of the proverbial Ghanaian welcome and hospitality
Remember, what I said earlier - Ghana beckons you! Don't miss the opportunity!!
Season of Greetings for IODA
The Conference Secretariat takes this opportunity to wish all Members of IODA and the OD family as well as prospective delegates to the IODA2008 Conference Season's Greetings wherever they might be.
we look forward to your visit to Ghana in July 2008
best of wishes
from all of us at ...
The Conference Secretariat
iodaghana@myzipnet.com
Friday, December 21, 2007
IODA2008 Conference website update
Please be advised that you can reach the IODA 2008 conference website by clicking on http://www.iodaghana.net
Please come often to the website as there will be more updates and things for you to do..!!
best regards
Eric
Eric N. Yankah
enyankah@myzipnet.com
Please come often to the website as there will be more updates and things for you to do..!!
best regards
Eric
Eric N. Yankah
enyankah@myzipnet.com
Test to IODA2008 Official Blog - A new day Dawns!!
Hi, when I heard today that there will be a conference in Ghana and that there will be a special blog to bring prospective delegates, members and friends of IODA and the Organisation Development Community, I thought wow, what a great way to share ideas before teh forum.. and what a way to follow through and up on the isues that are raised through the blog, through the IODA2008 Conference website as well as prepare for a great futre for the practice of OD
sorry but this was one opportunity I could not let pass.
Best Regards
Esi Adomaa
sorry but this was one opportunity I could not let pass.
Best Regards
Esi Adomaa
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Welcome to the Official IODA 2008 Blog
From the IODA 2008 Conference Planning Committee, Accra, Ghana
Greetings, dear OD friends
Akwaaba, Welcome
I am sure you are still savouring the sights, sounds, learning & knowledge sharing experiences and, of course, the pleasure of the company of the many OD faithfuls - who trooped to Sun Peaks, British Columbia, Canada to be a part of the IODA 2007 event.
As you settle down into your post conference mode, the Host Country Organising Committee for IODA 2008 slated for July 27-31, 2008 in Accra Ghana would like to once again follow up on the invitation extended to you all by the Ghana delegation last Friday night, August 24, 2007.
Our special IODA2008 conference website - http://www.odghana.org/ - will be fully alive with news, information on and about the conference as well as everything that you need to know about our wonderful country, Ghana, as you make your preparations to come in July 2008.
Whilst members of the HCOC are available via email (details would be available on the "Contact Us" pages of the website, our fully manned Conference Secretariat would be formally opened in October 2008 complete with telephone & fax contacts in addition to email communication
We are happy to also invite you to join us to share your thoughts about and in the theme for this conference, ahead of the event. As you recall from last Friday, the theme for the IODA2008Ghana conference is "Growing Together in Partnership" .
Consequently, dear colleagues, we have also created this special IODA2008 blog to enable all of us have and utilise a common discussion platform for contributions and suggestions in the run-up to the conference in July 2008.
We trust that you will be a part of the process of "The making of IODA2008" all aimed at making IODA2008 a very memorable one for all of us.
Welcome once again,
lets hear from you!!
many thanks and the warmest of regards
The HCOC,
IODA2008 Accra Ghana
Greetings, dear OD friends
Akwaaba, Welcome
I am sure you are still savouring the sights, sounds, learning & knowledge sharing experiences and, of course, the pleasure of the company of the many OD faithfuls - who trooped to Sun Peaks, British Columbia, Canada to be a part of the IODA 2007 event.
As you settle down into your post conference mode, the Host Country Organising Committee for IODA 2008 slated for July 27-31, 2008 in Accra Ghana would like to once again follow up on the invitation extended to you all by the Ghana delegation last Friday night, August 24, 2007.
Our special IODA2008 conference website - http://www.odghana.org/ - will be fully alive with news, information on and about the conference as well as everything that you need to know about our wonderful country, Ghana, as you make your preparations to come in July 2008.
Whilst members of the HCOC are available via email (details would be available on the "Contact Us" pages of the website, our fully manned Conference Secretariat would be formally opened in October 2008 complete with telephone & fax contacts in addition to email communication
We are happy to also invite you to join us to share your thoughts about and in the theme for this conference, ahead of the event. As you recall from last Friday, the theme for the IODA2008Ghana conference is "Growing Together in Partnership" .
Consequently, dear colleagues, we have also created this special IODA2008 blog to enable all of us have and utilise a common discussion platform for contributions and suggestions in the run-up to the conference in July 2008.
We trust that you will be a part of the process of "The making of IODA2008" all aimed at making IODA2008 a very memorable one for all of us.
Welcome once again,
lets hear from you!!
many thanks and the warmest of regards
The HCOC,
IODA2008 Accra Ghana
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