Benefits of Organizational Development

Organization Development is a dynamic values-based approach to systems change in organizations and communities; it strives to build the capacity to achieve and sustain a new desired state that benefits the organization or community and the world around them.

Benefits of Our OD Consulting Services

• Based in Core Values: Our OD work is grounded in a distinctive set of core values and principles that guide our behavior and actions. Our key values include: Respect and inclusion, authenticity, self-awareness, collaboration and empowerment. These values help insure the integrity and effectiveness of our consulting services.
  
• Informed by Data: We work to insure we have the data before leaping to conclusions about what type of intervention will best serve our clients. The focus on getting the data first helps us insure the success of our interventions.
  
• Focused on Effectiveness and Health: Our OD consultants work to create and sustain a healthy effective human system as an interdependent part of its larger environment. Since the work is client centered, effectiveness is defined in collaboration with the client.
  
• Systems Approach: Our OD consulting services approaches communities and organizations as open systems; that is, we act with the knowledge that change in one area of a system always results in changes in other areas; and change in one area cannot be sustained without supporting changes in other areas of the system.
  
• Client Centered: Our OD work focuses on the needs of the client in order to continually promote client ownership of all phases of the work and support the client’s ability to sustain change after the consultant engagement ends.
  
• Collaborative Approach: We partner with our clients in helping them solve problems and create sustainable change. While we have process expertise, we know that our clients are the experts in their organizations. By combining our knowledge of systems and processes, with our clients knowledge of their organization, we create partnerships that produce results.

• Specializing in Conflict Management: We bring a wide range of experience in dealing with conflicts to our OD work. This is significant because:
  • Thirty percent of a typical manager's time is spent dealing with conflict. This means that for each manager who earns $60,000 a year, the company is spending $18,000 on conflict management. Is your organization different, or can we help you?
  • Exit interviews reveal that chronic unresolved conflict acts as a decisive factor in at least 50% of all involuntary departures.
  • One in six violent crimes - almost a million a year, occur in the workplace
    article: "The cost of organizational conflict"