We are using the following change management approaches and OD technologies to support the design of customised, sustainable and productive change interventions for our clients.
Appreciative Inquiry Process :
Operates from the belief that systems evolve towards what they persistently ask questions about.
Appreciative inquiry focuses on discovering what is it that the organization does when it is performing at its best. Discovering the life giving forces in the organization inspires action and innovation.
The organization learns to apply itself to growth rather than just limiting itself to problem solving.
Open Space technology :
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is based on the belief that we humans are intelligent, creative, adaptive and ‘meaning & fun seeking’.
Open Space allows people to come together in a voluntary manner to explore issues and discover emerging thought patterns.
Open Space conferences are particularly effective when a large, complex operation needs to be thoroughly re-conceptualised and reorganized. It is based on the assumption that such a system contains within it the seeds of everything that needs to happen with it. Open Space provides it with an opportunity to self-organize into its new configuration.
Powerful questions :
Questions can be one of the most effective communication tools available to us. Any question that you can ask that stimulates, inspires and provokes creativity, insight, learning or problem solving is a "powerful question."
Powerful questions is communication with an intent to problem solve, co-create, relate and explore the ambiguous. A powerful question puts an end to games, manipulation, punishment and blame.
Complex Adaptive systems approach :
There is a dark invisible workmanship
that reconciles discordant elements
and makes them move in one society.
- The Prelude, Wordsworth
The science of complexity ironically looks at the law of simplicity directly in the eye. Simple elements randomly thrown together can give rise to very complex behaviours. Complex behaviours can give rise to simple systems.
Evidence from the science of complexity shows that given certain clear parameters, communities and teams will self-organize.
Complex Adaptive Systems approach looks at developing simple systems within complex, chaotic behaviours whilst retaining the character and creativity of the organization and its people.
Learning organizations :
The level of performance and improvement needed today requires lots of ‘learning to do’. A "learning organization" process is one in which people at all levels, individually and collectively, are continually increasing their capability to produce results they really care about.
The learning organization concept facilitates consolidation of known experience and knowledge, and the generation of new knowledge to enhance productivity.
Spiral Dynamics Integral :
Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDI) provides a technology, framework and vocabulary to measure, design and implement change from an evolutionary perspective. Spiral Dynamics Integral looks at the connectedness of things and change processes.
SDI focuses on creating the environment & life conditions for facilitating emergence of the desired value systems . SDI can be applied to diagnose and facilitate growth and macro-change in areas of education, community development, emergence of customer service trends and design of innovative systems to respond to employee needs.