Category: Efficiency, Improvement & Learning

How teams and individuals get better over time. Reflection, learning, retrospectives, process improvement and the difference between being busy and being effective.

  • What Makes An Effective Organisational Development Program?

    What Makes An Effective Organisational Development Program?

    Organisations are complex with unique histories and unique strategies. The best way to develop them is through an effective organisational development program. Effective programs are strategic, long-term, multi-disciplinary, collaborative and bespoke. Organisational Development Organisational development (OD) is planned effort to change the culture, behaviours and other “people” factors of an organisation. Delivering […]

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  • Organisational Development: An Easy Introduction

    Organisational Development: An Easy Introduction

    Organisational Development is a planned effort to change the culture, behaviours, ways of working and other “people” factors of an organisation to enable it to effectively meet its strategic objectives. Organisational Development Organisational development, often referred to as “OD”, is a broad phrase that captures many things. Fundamentally though, organisational development can […]

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  • The Nine Box Talent Grid: A Simple Summary

    The Nine Box Talent Grid: A Simple Summary

    The Nine Box Talent Grid is a performance management, calibration and succession planning tool. It helps organisations assess their employees across two dimensions, current performance and future potential. The Nine Box Talent Grid When assessing performance or otherwise considering the value of an individual to an organisation, leaders should assess two dimensions: […]

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  • E012: Problem Solving with the A3 Method

    E012: Problem Solving with the A3 Method

    From the archive This episode is from The World of Work Podcast, made by James Carrier and Jane Stewart at the World of Work Project — a previous venture of ours. All 187 episodes, recorded between 2019 and 2024, are kept here because the conversations still hold up. You can find Jane on LinkedIn, and…

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  • E001: organisational Development

    E001: organisational Development

    From the archive This episode is from The World of Work Podcast, made by James Carrier and Jane Stewart at the World of Work Project — a previous venture of ours. All 187 episodes, recorded between 2019 and 2024, are kept here because the conversations still hold up. You can find Jane on LinkedIn, and…

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