Overview
Section A)
As this course concludes, reflect on all you have learned. The readings, Discussions, Assignments, and assessments should have increased your base of knowledge and appreciation of key elements of the field. Comments and dialogue with your peers should have provided valuable insight and helped you further deepen and broaden your understanding of consulting for organizational development and change.
Now turn your thoughts to the future and consider how you will apply what you have learned in order to be an effective practitioner and create positive social change. What career opportunities are most interesting to you? How will you continue to develop your professional skills? As you revisit and reflect on the assessments you completed in Week 1, do you think your results would be different today? Has your learning in this course helped you meet your personal goals and objectives based on these assessments?
Post a response to the following:
- Identify the top three to five most important takeaways from this course.
- Are your perceptions of the field any different than they were in the first week? If so, how?
- What professional development activities will you pursue in the next 6 months?
- Identify one or two key takeaways from the assessments (Strengths Finder and EIQ-16R) you completed in Week 1. In particular address the following two questions:
- How has your learning and growth during this course helped you improve and/or reinforce the assessed skills?
- How can these assessments, and similar ones, be used by OD consultants to benefit individuals and organizations with which they work?
- Section B)
- The knowledge and practical experience you have gained in this course provide the foundation on which you will continue to build your knowledge of the OD field. It is important to stay abreast of current events and to understand how they will affect your practice and your client organizations. Keeping your skills and competencies current will aid you in staying ahead of emerging changes within the field. How will the career opportunities that are most appealing to you be affected by current and future trends in the field of OD?
- Consider OD career opportunities you might like to pursue, whether within government or large corporations or consulting firms, as an independent consultant, or through another avenue.
- Reflect on how these opportunities may both be affected by and how they may address emerging and future changes in the field as well as the ways in which they may contribute to positive social change. A 2- to 3-page paper written in APA format and style in which you identify and discuss at least three future trends in the OD profession and/or OD practice.
- How do you see yourself adapting to and/or applying these future trends?
- How will these future trends affect career opportunities that interest you most?
- How will these future trends contribute to positive social change?
- Resources:
- Cheung-Judge, M. (2018, February 28). The future of the organization and implications for ODLinks to an external site.. HR Magazine. https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/the-f...
- Church, A. H., & Burke, W. W. (2018). Four trends shaping the future of organizations and organization developmentLinks to an external site.. OD Practitioner, 49(3), 14–22.
- The Gloria Cordes Larson Center for Women and Business. (2017). Multigenerational impacts on the workplace Download Multigenerational impacts on the workplace. https://www.bentley.edu/files/2017/11/01/Bentley%2...
Used with permission of Gloria Cordes Larson Center for Women and Business at Bentley University. - Haynes, C. (2015). The future of organizational developmentLinks to an external site.. In W. J. Rothwell (Ed.), Organization development fundamentals: Managing strategic change. ATD Press.
- Instructure. (2016). 7 trends for Workforce 2020: How to make today's ever-changing workplace work for you. Author. https://sewi-atd.org/resources/Pictures/7%20TRENDS...
- Kapp, K. (2018, October 31). Talent development trends to watch in the next yearLinks to an external site.. Association for Talent Development. https://www.td.org/insights/talent-development-tre...
- Price Waterhouse Cooper. (2018). Workforce of the future. The competing forces shaping 2030Links to an external site.. https://www.pwc.com.au/pdf/workforce-of-the-future...
- Zentis, N. (2017, August 8). Future trends in organization developmentLinks to an external site.. Institute of Organization Development. https://instituteod.com/future-trends-organization...