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Positioning OD in the HE sector

Positioning OD in the HE sector. Initial thoughts Professor José Chambers. Positioning the OD worker. Universities are:. Multi-cultured Multi-functional Apt to behave other than as directed Resistant to systems solutions ……..but also highly bureaucratised “Professionally argumentative”

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Positioning OD in the HE sector

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  1. Positioning OD in the HE sector Initial thoughts Professor José Chambers

  2. Positioning the OD worker

  3. Universities are: • Multi-cultured • Multi-functional • Apt to behave other than as directed • Resistant to systems solutions • ……..but also highly bureaucratised • “Professionally argumentative” • Resilient

  4. So, in this context OD workers need to have • Sophisticated self-management skills • Capacity to remain articulate in the face of resistance • Resilience to cope with personal challenge • Confidence rooted in modesty • Optimism and staying power in the face of apparent failure

  5. Or in other words…. • Knowledge of and empathy with the context • Highly developed research skills – observation, data collection and analysis • Intellectually authentic (and current) know-how • Capacity to be mobile within the HEI – to have credibility with different constituencies • Capacity to charm/challenge/influence/persuade • Ability to manage upwards/sideways

  6. Is this – “the self as instrument”? …….theory in action Doing diagnosis Selecting suitable interventions Intervening

  7. OD Values (Roffey Park) The value of OD can be summarised by three words: optimistic, humanistic, and democratic:

  8. Checkout your views of yourself in your organisation • Your key images – self and organisation? • Where do you position yourself? • How do you describe your habitual modes of interaction? • How do others see you?

  9. Consider the importance of: • Situation sensing • observing and understanding a specific context • adjusting behaviours to fit that context • the art of the “authentic chameleon” • and (possibly – and strategically) also personifying for others an alternative way of behaving See Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones: Why should anyone be led by you? Harvard University Press, 2006

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