Archive for June, 2008
Developing a team and managing change
Today we received a request:
“I need some ideas and help please. I need to runa simple first team meeting within the start up division I am employed.There are 20 people in the division, and all have been employed no more than 6months. Usual growing pains and fall outs and frustrations of no one quite surewhat [...]
Organizational Diagnosis and diagnostics
Organizational DiagnosticsIn the area of Organizational Development there are many activities and disciplines. One of those is the area of organizational diagnosis and the use of structured organizational diagnostic tools.The effective diagnosis of organizational culture, and structural and operational strengths and weaknesses are fundamental to any successful organizational development intervention. As Beckhard said in the [...]
Green Recruitment – environment or business sense?
As fuel prices climb ever faster and people begin to struggle paying mortgages etc what policies have organisations put in place to play their part in protecting the environment?How many organisations are putting max distances from home as a legitimate recruitment filter?
Some years ago I had access to some population data in one London borough, [...]
Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Survey
Many organizations large and small are interested in measuring and monitoring how their people feel about the organization.
Many consulting businesses offer satisfaction or engagement surveys, however these are often very expensive and are not ‘owned’ by the business. Other organizations develop their own. This is great in that they measure exactly what they want but [...]
New consultants using the Creatrix as a leadership development tool
On Wednesday 6 June 2008 at the IoD in London another group undertook training in use of the Innovation Equation developed by Byrd. The Innovation Equation:
INNOVATION = CREATIVITY x RISK TAKING
is a behavioural based approach. Under the two main components (Creativity and Risk Taking) are seven behavioural drivers. Using these drivers organisational development specialists can [...]
