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 OD Masterclass with Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge  

Date: 30/09/2010      Time: 9:30 - 5.00 

 

 

Organisational Development (OD) is the art of bringing about planned change. This event is an exceptional opportunity for senior managers, senior HR practitioners, OD specialists, internal change agents and consultants, to benefit from Mee-Yan’s lifetime of experience and research.

Dr Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge has spent 26 years helping public and private organisations with major change programmes. Her extraordinary experience of working with over 300 organisations places her in an ideal position to evaluate the status and performance of OD. Set against a growing debate among US OD academics and practitioners on the status of the OD discipline, Mee-Yan’s masterclass will cut to the key issues and their relevance to OD in the UK.

Mee-Yan brings a unique blend of passion, stories from her own practice and theoretical understanding. Mee-Yan will address these issues and also explore the discipline at a ground level, exploring what is its real status in UK organisational life? What value does it or can it add? Who are the practitioners and how can they be effectively equipped? She will also review where OD sits structurally and its relationship to Human Resources and which evolutionary developments of OD interventions we need to pay attention to. Consideration will also be given to the importance of understanding the rich history and roots of OD in order to preserve its identity and create its future.

Masterclass Agenda

  • Definition of OD
  • History and development of OD
  • OD’s role in the life of the organisation over the last 60 years
  • HR and OD relationships and OD’s structural position in the organisation
  • Role of leaders as custodians of organisation health
  • Critical role of OD diagnostic work
  • Evolution of OD interventions and the type of skills OD practitioners need
  • The importance of the use of self in OD intervention
  • The difference between technician and practitioner

Benefits you can expect

In this fast-paced and inspirational day you will:

  • Learn more about the theory of OD and its practical applications from an expert in the field who will bring OD to life
  • Understand where OD might sit in an organisational structure and its relationship to HR
  • Question your thinking about your own OD practice
  • Explore the use of ‘self ’ as an OD instrument
  • Learn how to work with, and apply, a range of models and diagnostic tools
  • See just why OD is such an essential discipline for the 21st Century
  • Be challenged!

Speaker Profile

Since obtaining her PhD in Organisation Studies in 1979, Mee-Yan has held a number of academic positions and run her own OD consultancy since 1984. A specialist in large-scale change programmes, she is well known for her creative large-system intervention work with over 300 organisations.

Mee-Yan has long campaigned for the continuous development and improvement of OD education in the UK. This includes improving the literacy among organisational leaders about the role of OD in achieving strategic ambitions, and building sustainable and healthy organisations.

Her passion to make OD a distinct field has led to her work with Roffey Park, building focused OD programmes. She has also partnered professional associations like CIPD to make the work of OD more visible in their conference and teaching programmes. In 2008, she was voted as one of the top 25 thinkers in the field by HR Magazine. Mee-Yan’s next focus is to stimulate and encourage authors from the UK to play an emerging role in sharing UK-based OD practices and case studies, helping OD to become a truly international rather than US-driven discipline. Mee-Yan is a Visiting Fellow of Roffey Park, a member of the NTL (the founding institution of OD) Institute..