Agenda
 
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
1:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Architectural Tour
The Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise aboard Chicago's First Lady is a "Must" for out-of-towners and Chicagoans alike. Certified tour guides interpret more than 50 buildings along the Chicago River, revealing how the city grew from a small back-country outpost to one of the world's most important crossroads. (Meet in Hotel Monaco Lobby at 1:45)

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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cocktail Reception Hotel Monaco
(Paris South Ballroom) 

6:00 pm - 6:15 pmIntroductions, sponsor recognition, networking opportunity

6:15 pm - 7:00 pmIntroduction of Tom Wujec, Autodesk Fellow -- "The Great Chicago Marshmallow Competition"
 
Thursday, October 4, 2012
7:00 am - 8:00 am
Breakfast - Hotel Monaco
Networking Opportunity
(Paris South Ballroom) 

8:15 am - 8:30 am
WELCOME to CHICAGO
Introductions, sponsor recognititon

8:30 am - 10:15 am
Tom Wujec's  Clarity Workshop:  TOOLS TO ENGAGE, ALIGN AND TAKE BOLD STEPS
In today's turbulent world, seasoned leaders now know that clarity is a vital dimension of business. The ability to clearly describe the forces that shape your company, paint a vivid picture of your mission, and plainly illustrate the strategies that lead to growth, largely determines your potential for success. Join Tom Wujec in a lively, full-day interactive workshop to help you build four essential capabilities to foster clarity:
1. Identify the essential business questions fundamental to success. 
From broad organizationally focused questions, such as Where is the market heading? and How do we extend our business model? to personal questions, including How do I grow in my firm? and How can I increase my personal value?, participants will use a simple framework to select questions that are most relevant and pressing to you now. 
2. Think through and answer questions visually. 
Participants will distill and answer these questions by creating systems diagrams. Drawing from a visual library and using sketches, sticky notes and visual prototypes, they will make their thinking visible, tangible and persistent.
3. Facilitate conversations to create insight and meaning.
Participants will also spend time building their facilitation skills, not only listening more carefully, but fostering an environment to help others arrive at insight faster and discover elegant solutions, building trust and bringing out the best in people. 
4. Applying systems thinking to take bold steps.
Finally, participants will work collaboratively to produce holistic solutions, applying visual systems that illustrate dilemmas and trade-offs, as well as the clear course of action to move forward.
Small Group Exercises:
Groups of 7-8 will explore Chicago sites in an exercise aimed at stimulating creative strategic planning, collaboration, and problem-solving. (Box Lunch)


10:30 am - 12:15 pmOn the streets (North Michigan Avenue) for mobile workshop
12:30 pm - 3:00 pmWorking Lunch and continue mobile workshop

3:00 pm - 4:00 pmTeam Presentations
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmReview of Process, Lessons Learned - Tom Wujec, Facilitator
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Reception - Networking Opportunity
(Paris South Ballroom) 

 
Friday, October 5, 2012
8:00 am - 8:30 am
Travel to Wrigley Field
(Meet at 7:45 a.m. in Hotel Monaco Lobby) 

8:30 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast in Chicago Cubs Headquarters
Orientation, sponsor recognition

9:00 am - 11:30 am

A behind-the-scenes technical tour of Wrigley Field

Meet with Cubs’ senior facilities consultant Steven Jacobsen, CDP, and Carl Rice, Vice President, Baseball Operations, to dissect the challenges involved in keeping this beloved sports icon up to date - structural challenges, public utilities issues, MEP/HVAC modernization, ADA compliance, and historic restoration.

11:30 am - 1:00 pmTour reports, Lunch at the Cubby Bear
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Adjourn
Return to Hotel Monaco.  
You will be eligible to earn up to 8.0 AIA/CES Discovery Learning Unit.