What do you do when you’ve had enough of the imbalance that is destroying our democracies, our planet, and ourselves? Well, if you’re famed academic and OD practitioner Henry Mintzberg, you set up a website in April 2021 to help us pursue the rebalancing of society. I stumbled across this recently, and was immediately taken by the depth of feeling …
May Event Review: It’s all in the design – Workshop experiences that engage and deliver
For our May event, facilitator, mentor, writer and speaker Jacinta Cubis led us through a fun and practical discussion on how to design workshop experiences that engage and deliver. Engaging and delivering results is about getting your audience involved and having fun, while achieving the session outcomes. We discussed the value of planning, and the balance between a tight script …
April Event Review: Quietly Powerful – How to Stop Wasting Talent and Ignite it Instead
For our first face to face event since early 2020, the insightful and talented Megumi Miki led us through a deep dive into her work on being Quietly Powerful – how to stop wasting talent and ignite it instead ODA’s live event on 29 April was a liberating experience for all involved in so many ways. It was the …
What we’re reading
ODA Committee Member Meredith Crowe has been appreciating the work of Kim Scott. Following her insightful work on ‘Radical Candor,’ Kim has developed another framework ‘Just Work‘. Read more on Kim Scott’s “Just Work” From ODA Vice President Kaliopi Tsousis: Many of you will remember our February 2020 evening with Professor Gervase Bushe on Dialogic OD. He …
March event review – Diversity & Inclusion – Bias in Organisations
When we ask our members what topics they would like to see in ODA events, one theme that often comes up is diversity and inclusion. For our March event, we explored this topic through stories and experiences. Our guest, Ieta D’Costa is a radiation oncologist, and PhD candidate researching attitudes to indigenous Australians within our health system. Ieta’s work, and …
Book review – “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art” by James Nestor
I would have thought we are all experts on breathing. We partake in the practice approximately 9000 times a day. And most of us have probably been exposed to the benefits of breathing through yoga, meditation or other health and fitness regimes. You may have also attended the ODA event last year which featured Darren Stojanovic a sports physiotherapist and …
February Event Review – What is the future of OD?
Helen Hovenga has supported many organisations to drive performance and navigate change by empowering and energising people. For our first event of 2021, Helen led us to consider the future of OD and our role in it. Helen shared with us many of her learnings from being an OD professional, and how they will support a positive future for OD. …
November Event Review: 2020 – it’s a wrap! Reflecting on & celebrating moments of kindness
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 …
October Event Review: Insights into the impact of the coronavirus crisis on employee experience – and what to do about it!
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 …
2020 AGM: Leadership Group Report
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 …