Warm Greetings Colleagues!
If you are planning to attend the OBTC Teaching Conference for Management Educators at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee this year, please consider attending the Interpersonal Relations Lab (known formerly as the OB T-group) as a pre-conference professional development activity. All attendees are enthusiastically invited, but we'd like to issue a special invitation to those who are new to OBTC and to doctoral students. Participation in the IR Lab is an excellent way to make connections with members of the OBTS community. The IR Lab experience has allowed a great many members of OBTS to develop lasting friendships with colleagues who have been supportive over the years, both professionally and personally.
What is an IR Lab? It is facilitated experiential learning, focused on the here and now, in an unstructured small group setting. The technology it uses is that of the T-group. Quality teaching depends on the ability to interact effectively with others, to have sufficient emotional awareness and competence to handle difficult interpersonal situations, and to create emotional intimacy - all of which are skills you can develop in the IR Lab.
The Interpersonal Relations Lab has been an OBTC pre-conference activity for the past 23 years. This year's IR Lab will take place immediately prior to OBTC, from 4:30 pm on Sunday, June 8 to 3:15 pm on Wednesday June 11. This T-group experience is a true bargain at a cost of $475 compared to NTL's T-group, the Human Interaction Lab, which costs $3450 for tuition plus the cost of hotel and meals.
T-group technology is at the foundation of organizational development and management education. Its chief limitation lies in that it is very difficult to train persons in its effective and responsible usage. OBTS has among its members a few who are excellent T-group facilitators and are willing to provide this service to the IR Lab with no remuneration and out of dedication to their field. This year we are fortunate to have sufficient facilitators to be able to hold two groups. The facilitators will be Esther Hamilton (founder and Dean of the IR Lab), Dale Finn, Kenneth Pittman, and Paul Ryder.
You can get more information about the Interpersonal Relations Lab, view the bios of this year's facilitators, and learn how to register and pay for the IR Lab at the OBTC website: www.OBTC.org.
Do not hesitate to contact the IR Lab Administrator with any questions:
Tammi Redd
Office: 201-684-7356
tredd@ramapo.edu
Remember, space in the IR Lab is limited. If you are interested, don't wait. Please go to the conference website for specific instructions: www.OBTC.org See you at the IR Lab and OBTC!!!
Warm regards,
Esther Hamilton and Tammi Redd
Tammi C. Redd, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management
Sam Walton Fellow
The Anisfield School of Business
Ramapo College of New Jersey
505 Ramapo Valley Road
Mahwah, NJ 07430
Phone: 201.684.7356
Fax: 201.684.7957
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