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The difference that makes a difference – OD Strategy in complex environments
James Traeger and Martin Saville
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Unorganised
Organised
Seek patterns
Plan, control
Complex
Certainty
Agre
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Close to
Clos
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Far from
Far f
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Complexity requires more dialogueKnow when your challenges are in the zone of complexity
Complicated
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Questions from a complexity standpoint
• Who takes responsibility for the whole of the organisation?
• How is difference nurtured and used?
• What is the mindset that best embodies engagement in a complex world?
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1. Change isn’t plan-able(but that shouldn’t stop us from having good intentions)
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2. Difference matters(OD is sometimes defined as adding to the system what it doesn’t
already have)
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What’s Your Difference?
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3. Politics and meaning define leadership in complexity(That means we need to be good (ethical) storytellers)
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So to sum up: your OD strategy is about:
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A useful tool 1: Self as Instrument
• You are the change
• You carry with you a microcosm of what the organisation is and what it needs to do next
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• I see…
• I imagine…
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A useful tool 2: Adaptive Action• Requires a dialogue approach• Helps with next ‘available adjacent steps’• It’s deceptively simple – as in ‘simplicity on the
far side of complexity’• Based on the work of Glenda Eoyang• Helps clarify the ‘difference that makes a
difference’
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How?
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What?
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Group Mindmap
• Gather from the group – what are the specific change issues for a group or team?
• Create a collective story• Get to know each other• Creates dialogue in a complex environment• Avoids blame, develops empathy• Active
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The tool - How it works
• Called a ‘Group Mind Map’• Topic: What are the trends we currently face
when (doing OD here)?• Our rules:
– All ideas are good– Say where it goes if you suggest– Examples help– Brainstorm not discussion– Opposing trends OK
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Summarising our approach
Diagnostic Culture Change• Programmatic• ‘Telling’ more than ‘listening’• Values defined by the top• Defined outcomes• More of the same• Tends to favour those in
authority• Culture Change can be
planned• About changing behaviours
Dialogic Culture Change• Creative & opportunistic• ‘Listening’ more than ‘telling’• Values modeled by the top• Emergent and unexpected outcomes• Substantial differences• Works to understand a wide
constituency• Culture change is a conversation• About changing mindset and
behaviours
There are 2 basic perspectives of culture change within Organisational Development:
Our approach is to take a pragmatic line between these two approaches, depending on your need
From Bushe and Marshak, 2009, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science , Vol45:3 pp348-368
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Get in touch
www.mayvin.co.uktwitter.com/mayvinltd
James [email protected]
+44 (0)7778 647712
Martin [email protected]
+44 (0)7968 719940