Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition

THE POWER OF JOURNEYS

How can organization development (OD) practitioners raise people’s consciousness about their true aspirations and enlarge their self-pictures about what they might accomplish through their work and organizations? How can OD practitioners help companies to align and activate people to common purpose and to ennoble that purpose with meaning? The usual tools—self-assessment exercises, peer feedback and discussion, personal and collective visioning, real-time situation analyses, problem solving, goal setting, and the like—can all contribute. Often these tools are deployed during company “retreats” where people can get away from day-to-day business, step back to think and talk about things afresh, and perhaps relax a bit ...