St. Louis OD Network Information Center 

The St. Louis OD Network is a group of professionals with a mission to serve the OD community through learning experiences and the opportunity to interact with peers. Our organization strives to create an atmosphere where we can learn, share ideas and build relationships with other members. We encourage you to attend one of our events listed below and to share your knowledge and experience with us.

Topic:            HR and OD: Two Sides of the Same Coin -
                     How can OD effectively partner with HR?

Location:     The Heights of Richmond Heights

September       Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010

Topic:            TBD 

Location:     The Heights of Richmond Heights

October                  Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010

Topic:            TBD 

Location:     The Heights of Richmond Heights

Dear STL-ODN Members and Fans,

The STL-ODN Board is committed to providing consistent value to our members while also being good stewards of our organization’s resources. Based on recent trends, we are making changes in our program cancellation policy to help us achieve this balance.

Over the past few months, we have experienced record attendance levels at our monthly programs, in some instances filling the venue to maximum capacity. While we are thrilled to have this heightened activity, this raises an important issue for which we need your help. In the past, we have allowed people to register in advance and pay at the door, but have never enforced a cancellation or no-show policy for those who register but do not attend. This has become an issue because we are contracted with The Heights for the remainder of 2010 and there is no additional space to be rented, so increasing our capacity is not an option at this time. This means that anyone who registers and does not show prevents others from attending, and because our costs are fixed in terms of facilities and catering, we are then unable to recover those costs.

In response to this issue, we will be implementing a new cancellation policy for our programs starting with the May program. The details of the cancellation policy can be found below. We believe this new policy will help make our registration process more equitable and effective for all our program attendees. Additionally, the new policy still allows you to choose whether to pay by check or credit card, in advance or at the door.

We thank you for your assistance in making our programs maximally accessible to those who wish to attend. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out. We look forward to seeing you at our next program!

Kind regards,

St. Louis Organization Development Network Board

Cancellation Policy: To cancel your registration, please send an e-mail with your name and address to Rik Nemanick at nemanick@leadership-effect.com with subject line: “PLEASE CANCEL”. If you cancel before 3 business days of the program date, you will receive a check for your registration fee minus (minus a $2 processing fee if you paid by credit card) within 2 weeks. If you cancel within 3 business days of the program date, you will be charged the full program fee in accordance with the following:

• If you paid in advance by credit card, your payment will not be refunded;
• If you selected the pay at the door option, we will expect your payment for the full program fee (checks made out to “St. Louis OD Network”) to be mailed within 2 weeks of the program date* to:

                                  St. Louis OD Network
                                  c/o Rik Nemanick
                                  716 Geyer Avenue
                                  St. Louis, MO 63104

If we do not receive a check within 2 weeks of the program date, you will be unable to register for future STL-ODN meetings until your payment has been received.

Thank you to all of the members who responded to our member survey. The information that you supplied has greatly helped your Board of Directors to plan programs in which you, the membership, have expressed an interest. Please click here <survey summary> to view a summary of the survey results. As always we are extremely interested in you thoughts and input. Please feel free to contact anyone on the Board with your thoughts and suggestions.

ISPI Monthly Program
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ASTD Monthly Program
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