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 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: …
Like many people, my life now revolves around the computer. I work from home, I socialise with friends and family online, and most of my entertainment is online. So, the title of our April event, Leadership during the age of Covid-19, had me wondering if we were going to be educated on how to lead via conference calls and webinars? …
Written by: Charlotte Francis, Grants specialist and writer, sometime ODA visitor! ODA’s March event was delivered online via Zoom reflecting the new reality of physical distancing and home-based working during the Covid-19 pandemic. More than ever, we need story to make sense of our changing world. The session started with a warm-up exercise where everyone in the group chose an …
It was the first OD event for the year and the ODA team was ready to host an exciting event to be facilitated by Professor Gervase R. Bushe, Professor of Leadership and Organizational Development at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver Canada. As the participants started to come in and network over sushi, the excitement …
Would you be willing to play improv games with your team if it added value to the team? Maybe it seems too risky or uncomfortable. For our November event, Andy Matthews had the ODA members doing and saying oddball things and laughing uproariously. In amongst the laughter we were seeing incredible value in using improv as an OD tool. …
