Author: mjc849

What are key similarities and differences between internal and external OD practitioners in the assessment and feedback phase. Getting up to speed: External consultants will need to take a longer period of time to get up to speed and understand the dynamics, context of information and needs of the organization as compared to internal OD…

What challenges have you experienced developing the feedback report in three different forms? What skills do you need to further develop to expedite the process? Wowza!  not sure that is how most would start a class blog reflection and THAT is exactly how I feel.  It took energy and effort to be able to focus…

Describe challenges you encountered while collecting and analyzing interview data and share lessons learned from the activity I found this weeks assignment to be particularly challenging in time, energy and overall understanding of data analysis.  I interviewed an additional individual because I felt it would round out the data I would analyze.  Even though I asked the…

My experience with assessments has been somewhat limited yet in looking back I realize I have had some good experience. As an embedded leadership coach our team created an online survey for our managers that included both qualitative questions that were both multiple choice and text entry.  We used the information to both share with…

Every day businesses use qualitative data collection methods, each with its own nuance.  An OD consultant will want to figure out which qualitative method or combined methods are the best fit for the presenting problem within the organization.  Below are the five different methods. One on one interviews:  is time intensive and potentially open to…

There are five dimensions of a Great Place to Work: credibility, respect and fairness which comprise trust; pride and camaraderie. What does it take for any organization to begin their journey to becoming a high performing organization that would gain status as a Great Place to Work? It all begins with first identifying an organizations…

Having both worked as an independent coach and consultant and most recently in a Fortune 100 company I see the importance of using an Organization Development model that allows you to both understand the current situation as well as provides a vision of the desired future.  With that being said I would ensure that I…

Leavitt’s model is an open system that  specifies four important variables to assess within organizations which are task, structure, technological variables and human variables.  Environmental factors, inputs and outputs are not considered, although they are in other open systems.   The application of this model includes examining each element and how changes in each element will…

Kotter’s eight-step organizational change model can be helpful to OD practitioners in making a change initiative successful because initiating and implementing change at the organizational level is a difficult and complex task and often met with resistance.  According to Dr. Kotter, approximately 70% of all major change efforts in organizations fail. After listening to our assigned…

We learned in module two that assessment and feedback and training needs assessment share some core commonalities in which both are closing a gap and are centered on data collection methods. However, they are different in terms of purpose, scope, outcome, and the way the assessment is conducted. In organization diagnosis we are focusing on…