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Organization Development/Design Learning Lab (od-ll.com) Presents a professional and insightful look into the challenges that organizations of all sizes face. Weekly we will explore and challenge the status quo and disruption that is prevalent in the ever-changing fast pace of the business world. Powered By Org-ology Hosted By Cheese and Crackers TV Org-ology helps organizations think differently about how they will meet future challenges of sustainable future growth and strategic development This only happen by understanding the present and anticipating the future needs. Org-ology has over 20 years’ experience helping organizations understand how people, process and technology can work more effectively together to create that future.
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Let’s talk a bit about Zoom fatigue, supervision and measuring productivity. All questions that folk should be asking around this. Are we still trying to decide what direction we are going? What are we waiting for?
Wednesday May 08, 2024
The brick and mortar of a virtual office
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Wednesday May 08, 2024
Ah, remember the days when you had that person who was “in the know” at the office? That person who seemed to know not just who was sleeping with whom, but also how to get a conference room when no one else could? That type of office knowledge has gone the way of the telex and the rotary phone—the answer is probably “we’re virtual now and there’s an FAQ for that”. It doesn’t change the fact that there’s a vacuum now, where helpful people used to be. It’s well known that nature hates a vacuum—so what’s filling that space?
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Does staff have expiration dates?
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Honest answers here: has anyone ever been motivated to go to work on Friday by the chance of having free pizza for lunch? Or that stale bagel for breakfast? If you happen to know who came up with that motivation plan, please submit your answers. Most folk agree that there’s a reason you’re paid to show up at work—and yet all the talk of work passion. If you talk to business leaders, they expect staff to see their work as the meaning of life. Can an excel spreadsheet be the meaning of life?
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Change resistance or what exactly was a floppy disc?
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
Wednesday Apr 24, 2024
In the chronicles of absurd parenting, my young daughter recently asked “dad, why do I click on that funny square thingy when I want to save my work on the computer?” I can only recommend: don’t discuss the details of data storage evolution with a nine year old—you have a vanishingly small chance of success. But it does make you ask: why are we still clicking on an icon image of a technology you probably can’t even buy anymore in our computer programs?
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Radical transparency and accountability: do you really understand it?
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
For decades we’ve talked about democratization through digital media—the change in technology makes it possible for each individual to have a louder, distinct voice. Whether its YouTube or Twitter, the individual has a greater impact—and megaphone than ever before. Do companies, and organizations, really grasp what that means for decision making, that—until now—may have been considered internal or private? Let’s look at current developments to see what their behaviors show.
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Where you lead, I will follow…maybe?
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
God save the queen. Or, wait. I think we’re now at God save the king, aren’t we? Recent events in British monarchy make for an interesting distraction in these turbulent times. Elizabeth was indeed the only person in that role, in my lifetime, so the changing of the guard does make for interesting observations. Who knew we British had such a collection of funny hats. As rather an anti-monarchist, I’d be curious to know if our in-house experts can assign a value to any of all of this.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Becoming a good leader is not easy
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
As a non-athlete I’m really rather fascinated by that coach on the sidelines in sports—what do they actually do? Some of them do shout a lot, and jump up and down. Does that really make a team play better? If so, how? And how does business coaching work: is there a lot of excited yelling in that too? What role should a really good coach play, or shouldn’t play?
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Stop trying to build a faster horse
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
So, are we in the pandemic—or out of it? In a recession or not? Are you planning for disaster or rebound? If it’s a rebound, then what does it look like? Visiting a favorite coffee shop recently, and looking around at the neighborhood—it’s empty shops, sometimes an empty block—, it was hard to tell what any reasonable person should be anticipating—based on the small window that is my neighborhood. So, what are the experts thinking?
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
What’s wrong with my organization Introduction
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
An introduction to Org-ology and the field of organization development and design.
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Are you sure that’s the right question to solve for?
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Have you ever optimistically started out on a project—CERTAIN that you’ve got just the right idea. And then as you’ve gone along, you’ve ended up with a bigger problem than you started with? Today we’re going to look at that tricky question of solving the right problem.
So, after our last podcast you sent along an article to me and I have to say. It was highly amusing. But I was fascinated that you felt it related to the workplace. It was about a prison in Rome. Can you sketch out what it was about, and how on earth did you think that relates to your clients?
So—assuming that most of your work does not involve prison inmates and guns—how have you seen this play out with your clients?
How do you encourage clients to take that step back and pause, before rushing into a solution?
Is there any foolproof way of knowing that you’ve selected the to solve the right problem?