Summary of Artifact: Organizational Development

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Organizational development is the process of increasing organizational effectiveness and facilitating personal and organizational change. This process has an entry stage which includes data gathering, feedback intervention evaluation, and exit. The data gathering stage happens in myriad ways, including interviews, focus groups, surveys, and observations. This information allows the consultant to make a more effective recommendation for an intervention. There are different types of interventions, including individual interventions, team interventions, and whole organization or multiple organization interventions. Some examples of organizational interventions include strategic planning, real time strategic change scenario planning, and search conferences. Organizational development spans multiple organizations and having an expert involved to help navigate the waters is during mergers and acquisitions and when organizations are Partnering together for a Shared

• 00:00:00 Organizational development is the process of increasing organizational effectiveness and facilitating personal and organizational change. The process has an entry stage which includes data gathering, feedback intervention evaluation, and exit. Next to contracting, this is one of the most important steps of the process. The data gathering stage happens in myriad ways, including interviews, focus groups, surveys, and observations. This information allows the consultant to make a more effective recommendation for an intervention. There are different types of interventions, including individual interventions, team interventions, and whole organization or multiple organization interventions. Some examples of individual interventions are instruments and assessments, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or coaching. Some examples of team interventions include team start up, role negotiation, analysis of work, and work redesign to eliminate redundancies. There are many different interventions that are leveraged at the organizational level, and can even go beyond the scope of just one organization. Directional interventions help organizational members agree on and plan for the future. Common examples include strategic planning, real time strategic change scenario planning, and search conferences. Future search is also a type of intervention. Organizational development spans multiple organizations and having an expert involved to help navigate the waters is during mergers and acquisitions and when organizations are Partnering together for a Shared