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Developing your OD strategy
13 December 2012

2. Getting started
Caroline Stearman, Megan Meredith and Melissa Green
Roffey Park hosts today

3. Our time today – exploring questions
 Questions we are going to address today:
– What is an OD strategy?
– What makes it different from an HR strategy or an L+D strategy?
– How do you set about developing one?
– What purpose does it serve?
 Questions of definition
– What do we mean by Organisation Development?
 Questions for your organisation
– The Roffey Park map for developing an
OD strategy and the questions this raises
 Your questions for us

4. What do we mean by Organisation
Development?
 An approach to making organisations more effective - aligning people,
strategy and processes in order to deliver the organisation’s strategy
 Underpinning beliefs
– a belief that organisations are people and they can change
– a belief in building organisations’ capacity to change and renew
themselves
– a respect for what everyone has to offer – democratic and
participative
 A way of looking at organisations that is both
– An approach or mindset
– A set of tools and expertise

5. What is an OD strategy?
 A route map identifying areas for focus to help the organisation
become more effective - aligning people, strategy and processes

6. What makes it different?
 From an L&D or HR strategy – focus on breadth?
 From a business strategy – focus on internal?

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8. First order : Definition of the territory
 What is OD for your organisation?
 What value does OD add?
 Integrated or separate?

9. Second order : building blocks
Purpose Context
 What is the driver for creating this  Staying connected to the
strategy? external environment
 What difference will this make?  What else is out there in
the organisation?
 If you don’t do this, what will
happen?  How can you integrate
this?
 Are you asking questions or trying to
provide answers with your strategy?  What is realistic?

10. Second order : building blocks
Core Principles
 Integrated: not attaching a separate ‘OD’ thing on top of everything else
 Systemic : seeing the organisation as being interconnected as a living system
 Participative : ensuring voices are heard from across the organisation
 Dialogic: recognising the power of conversation
 Diagnostic: not getting stuck in diagnosis, maintaining a future focus

11. Third order : Strategy considerations

12. Third order : Strategy considerations
Stakeholders Results
 Who does this need to speak to?  What will success look like for an
OD strategy?
 How are you connecting with them?
 How do you plan to evaluate and
 Where does the power lie at the
measure?
moment with relation to this work?
 How will you explore learning from
 Who else needs to be involved?
both the process and content of this
 How are you selling this? work?

13. Third order : Strategy considerations
Structure Content
 What model may help provide a  Are you covering the whole
structure? organisation?
 Are you considering diagnostic  What model might support you?
activities as interventions in their own
 Diagnosis of where you are now, how
right?
will you explore this?
 How can you keep this realistic and
 What is important, who says it is
pragmatic?
important?
 Have you got priorities to provide a
container for this?

14. Third order : Strategy considerations
 Notice the process is as valuable as the content and results
– What is proving challenging / easy?
 Are you paying attention to where the energy is in the system, what insight might
this offer?
 How clear are you on your role and what you bring to this?
– What is your contract?
– What are you drawn to, or not?

15. Questions for us?
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16. Contact details
Melissa Green UK Office
Business Development Manager Roffey Park Institute, Forest Road,
melissa.green@roffeypark.com Horsham, West Sussex, RH12 4TB
Tel: (01293) 851644
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Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific Roffey Park Asia Pacific Pte Ltd,
jane.koo@roffeypark.com 3 Temasek Avenue, Level 34 Centennial Tower,
Singapore 039190
+65 6549 7840
Tel: +65 6549 7840 / 7841 / 7842
email: singapore@roffeypark.com
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