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5 powerful OD interventions

The five most powerful OD interventions are as follows:

• Large Scale Interactive process.
• Role analysis for enhancing performance.
• Team Building intervention
• Appreciative inquiry.
• Mentoring

The aforementioned OD interventions need to be integral part of the annual Organization Development action plan for most organizations.

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Strategic Choice

Strategic choice is  a key skill in strategy formulation.Without this skill,the strategy formulated in not optimal.
A decision making tool for ,"Strategic Choice" consists of a matrix of the parameters of,"Effort" and,"Impact".These parameters can be utilized to choose among the strategic alternatives.
The top priority has to go ,"Low effort & high impact alternatives".

Interconnection between leadership and innovation

Leadership Comptency:

The general perception is that leadership and innovation are different competencies.
However,in a leadership diagnosis of a senior leader which did recently has resulted in the inference that an effective leader has to have innovation competence.

Without innovation,the leader would not succeed in evolving the organization to a new level of effectiveness.Hence,transformative leadership without
innovation is not possible.

Importance of Review Sessions

The general format of workshops is that they are stand alone sessions of 2/3 days duration.Thus after a high of the workshop,the participants start going through the low of real life limitations.This can lead to frustration and a disconnect with training.
Hence,it is critically important that after the completion of a workshop,after the lapse of some time for application,a follow up review session is held.This enables the sharing of application learning and the resolution of application issues thereby making the learning relevant,meaningful and contextual.
Thus the recommended format for workshops is two days workshop followed by a half day review session.

Talent identification and performance planning

Just finished a workshop on,"Talent identification and performance planning".An insight that dawned on me is that talent identification needs to be a part of performance appraisal.Talent is gold for any leader.
It however is a blindspot for HR departments and organizational leaders.

Competency Mapping

Competency Mapping is a critical skill for any trainer.In fact,it is one of the core tools of the Strategic HR paradigm.

Patentability

Is your idea patentable?

We Indians-Our core problem

What lies at the core,
That we do not score,
& achievement so does abjure,
That we to ourselves don't adore.

Inability to think beyond ourselves,
My family,my child and myselves,
Our thinking in this narrow lane so delves,
That our creativities hang themselves.

Sanjiv Narang
29/03/2010

The final frontier of management

The final frontier of management is politics.It is very sad that managers have limited the utilization of their competency and talent to business organizations. Thus,the influence of management professionals in the social and political sphere is minimal.

All those workshops on Leadership and managerial competency development. What a waste,if they do not get utilized on a broader platform other than a business organization.

In fact,a huge amount of new knowledge remains untapped because of the lack of application of managerial competency in the political arena.

Training Trainers

Kolb's learning cycle for adult learning is interesting.

The four experiential learning processes are:

Concrete Experience - (CE)

Reflective Observation - (RO)

Abstract Conceptualization - (AC)

Active Experimentation - (AE)

Its integration into the instruction design of a training program would definitely enhance the learning and competency takeaways.

Stay Interviews as an OD intervention

I have started analyzing the stay interviews conducted at 6 sites in NTPC.The power of this OD intervention is palpable.

Strengths and their enhancement is the only sure shot way to develop and sutain an edge whether in organizations or at a professional level.

Intellectual Assets of a firm

The intellectual assets of a firm consist of R&D, patents and trademarks, human resources and capabilities,organisational competencies and “relational capital"

Innovation: Why

•1 percentage point increase in aggregate innovation spending was associated with an increase of 0.85 percentage points in the probability of being a successful innovator and an increase of 0.7 percentage points in the share of new products in turnover.

Strategic HR and stay interviews

An indepth examination of stay nterviews has thrown up the revelation that stay interviews are a strategic HR tool.Strategic HR is basically transformational HR.It consists of the ways and means through which HR can enable the organization to create a competitive advantage. 

One of the tools of strategic HR is appreciative inquiry.

Appreciative inquiry is embedded into multiple Strategic HR interventions.

One of these nterventions is ,"Stay interviews".

Stay interviews can be a principal source for organization design and the redesigning of organizational policies.

Stay interviews

HR Technology is evolving and innovations in HR are beginning to gather pace.

On examining Stay Interviews,i have realized that they have appreciative inquiry embedded in them.Stay interviews are a powerful system for creating a performance orieneted culture and for organization design.

Their proactive nature put them into the category of,"Tools for Strategic HR".

The tools for Strategic HR is an interesting new classification of Strategic HR processes which can enable the HR department to drectly impact organizational performance.

It is about time that the HR department stopped only looking at people systems and started affecting organizational competitiveness and performance. 

A lament and a hope:Poem by Sanjiv Narang

A lament and a hope

Gone are the days of strength and valor,

Behold the days of tyranny and squalor,

For the time are a -changing,

Everyday truth is found hanging.

Inspite of your great feminine prowess,

the world shall remain leaderless,

for you lack idealism,

for freeing the world from this devilish prism.

Let the naysayers step aside,

and to the people's dictate abide,

for the leader to ascend,

for making our destiny mend.

one must look for the answer in one's soul,

for getting out of the debilitating hole,

before we regret the goal,

that time stole.

by:

Sanjiv Narang

Appreciative inquiry

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Explores appreciative inquiry as an OD intervention which builds a performance culture in the organization.

Overview of Strategic HR

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Provides an overview of the biggest development in the HR profession after its birth.