Organization development incorporates strategies for facilitating organizational change through a planned system of phases that incorporate contracting for action, assessment & feedback, action planning, implementation of actions, and evaluation. Selected areas of specialization include:

  • Team development
  • Change management
  • 360-degree team feedback

Mitch and colleague Louellen Essex have published a new article that discusses organization development with a focus on helping consultants work with leaders to discard outmoded practices. Titled Consulting in the Fast-Forward Lane: Helping Leaders Discard 7 Outmoded Practices.

 
   

Team development incorporates diagnosing critical team functions and ways to improve them with a focus on real work, not superfluous exercises.

 

 
   

Assessing an organization's culture and designing action strategies to promote the new culture and manage change.

 

 
   

360-degree team feedback systems for assessing multi-rater perspectives of a team's culture and strategies for enhancing the work of the team.

 

 
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