INSIDE p.2 Northbound Train Spotlight p.2 New Model-Netics Installations p.2 Model-Netics Demonstration and Trainer Session CD Sets p.3 New Employee Training - Using the Models p.3 Model-Netics Flashcards: A Useful Tool p.3 Instructor Insights p.3 Second Time Out p.4 Calendar of Events p.4 Contact Information The number in parenthesis after a name refers to the individual's Model-Netics Associate Number.

June 2003 ITP

The Model-Netics Instructor Training Program (ITP) was held in Houston, Texas on June 2-4, 2003. There were 14 Part I and 18 Part III participants. Special guests attending the graduation luncheon included: Dan George (2445) - Manhattan Insurance Group, Mark Miranda (2355) - HISD and Jonita Wallace (2387) - HISD.

Sponsoring Organizations
Instructor candidates participating in Parts I and III of the March ITP represented the following sponsoring organizations:

Part I Speaker
Paula Beecher, Regional Vice President of Operations for All About Staffing, Inc. spoke on behalf of the Part I Group.

Paula stated that her introduction to Model-Netics came when she took the course from Leon Drennan (1193), President of HCA Physicians Services. She relayed that "…his passion, excitement and knowledge of Model-Netics made an impression on every single one of us that was really hard to ignore…" Paula went on to say that the impact Model-Netics has had on HCA from the corporate level is very positive. “Susie Law and I have decided that we are going to go back and be the torch bearers to our division…"

In closing, Paula posed the challenge to herself and others in Part I and Part III to not just implement Model-Netics, but to live it, practice it, and use it in striving for the goal of improved operating results.

Part III Speaker
Lindsay Ziegler (2676), Chief Information Officer for Gardner & White, spoke for the Part III Group.

Lindsay began by relaying her introduction to Model-Netics in late 2002. She discussed what Model-Netics meant to her personally and professionally, as well as to her company. She took the course from her CEO (Larry Laswell, #2656) at a time when both of them were new to Gardner & White, and when the company was undergoing "massive" change. She explained how the Change Session and models like the Change Diamond and Change Curve were critical to the executive officers in her class as they worked with their employees to manage the changes taking place. Lindsay stated that Model-Netics made a "…tremendous difference."

She noted that "There's a lot of prescriptive and operational models in Model-Netics that I'm finding useful in what I am doing." Lindsay closed by saying that, "Model-Netics is a tool that we can all use for personal improvement and corporate improvement."

Featured Speaker
Harold S. Hook (0001), President and CEO of Main Event Management Corporation, was the featured speaker at the graduation luncheon.

Mr. Hook's talk was on the topic of "success." He noted that success is a subject that has intrigued him for a long time, and prompted him to create the model "The Success Profile." The challenge, he said was to come up with a universal definition of success. He relayed the difficulties in this process by illustrating the individual and complicated nature of goals and relationships in the Seven Ports of Life, as well as the trade-off decisions one must make to balance these ports.

Mr. Hook explained the creative process that ultimately led to three questions that could be used to answer "What is success?" He stated that one should answer these three questions in a simple "yes or no" fashion, and then plot these on a graph resulting in “The Success Profile.” The questions are:

"Am I doing what I really want to do?
"Am I going where I really want to go?
"Am I becoming the kind of person that I really want to be?”

He then related individual success to organization renewal and success, and the need for each of us to continually review our own "success" in terms of the Seven Ports of Life and the Success Profile. In closing, Mr. Hook provided a thought provoking quote from Victor Frankel, a victim of the German Holocaust and author of Man's Search for Meaning:

"What is the meaning of life? is not a question that you ask of life, but rather it's a question that life asks of you."