We all know 2020 has been tough and most would like to put it behind us but on 25 November we finished on a high! How do you make a topic like “Reflecting on and celebrating moments of kindness” work on a digital platform like Zoom? Well, it did, and it’s all down to the quality of the planning, the …
The Stats tell the story! On 28th October at 6.30 we all settled into our favourite nook of the house to tune into ODA via zoom. A wonderful outcome of our regular Zoom events is that our collective voice is growing, with regulars from regional Victorians, New South Wales and beyond. Our friendship circle is growing. Our guest speaker …
Our 2020 AGM was held as part of the September event. If you missed it, you can find out more about the last 12 months of ODA in our Leadership Group Report (click to view PDF). Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the ODA community over the past year, and special thanks to those who have volunteered their time …
Monday 9 to Friday 13 November 2020 NIODA Master of Leadership and Management students undertake a small consultancy in your organisation across a week. You will be asked to specify a presenting issue and be available (or have those connected to the issue be available) to engage with a small team of student consultants in a brief (3-4 day) consultancy. …
Our event began with Lindsay sharing the premise on which her work is based. Lindsay believes that we all have far more capability than we realise, and that one of the great inhibitors to us fulfilling our potential is the way we communicate with each other. A contributor to this is that many of us do too much ‘telling’. We …
It was a sunny morning in the UK when Dr Ian MacDonald joined us for ODA’s August evening event. With people in the UK, NZ, South Africa and Australia all tuned in, Ian led us in considering responses to Covid-19 using the lens of Systems Leadership, the approach Ian has developed over his career which builds on the work of …
Our July event was facilitated by Leadership Group member Carol Houtot who led an insightful discussion of how we can have meaningful conversations in the online environment that many of us find ourselves in, both at work and beyond. Anecdotally we all agreed that we had experienced meaningful online conversations. Through discussion of our experiences, we identified that while the …
On 27 May, we had our third virtual event using Zoom to navigate the challenges of during the current “social distancing”. 26 participants were involved and using the breakout facility of Zoom for small group discussions, enabled an engaging and informative event. We were joined by Professor Susan Long and Dr Nuala Dent of NIODA who posed the question: …
We were excited to announce in January that Australia had been confirmed as the hosts of the 2021 Organization Development Conference. You may recall being invited to complete a survey earlier this year, in preparation for the international OD Conference planned to be held in Australia in 2021. More than 30 members of the OD community around the region completed …
Jan Heckscher, Leadership Group member responsible for Member Liaison, was inspired by the story of a local university student taking the lead to provide practical support to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. I felt inspired by listening to Alex Dekker speak on Radio National. Alex is a 20-year-old Monash University science and global studies student. When the outbreak …
