Organization Development Services

What Is Organization Development?

Organization Development (OD) is the practice of helping the University solve problems and reach goals. OD helps people build the capacity to change, achieve greater effectiveness and improve the quality of work life.

How does Organization Development work?

The Organization Development Specialist works as a consultant and offers a range of services including:

• Change management - working with colleges, departments, committees and other groups to help them plan and implement significant change, especially as it affects people in their organizations.
• Strategic Planning - providing planning sessions to achieve SWOTS analysis, develop vision, mission and value statements and build goals, strategies, objectives and measurable outcomes.
• Team development - helping a team develop its ability to work more effectively together.
• Human resource management interventions - focusing on personnel practices to help integrate people into organizations.
• Action plan facilitation - facilitating meetings to help meet survey action goals and improve climate.
• Training solutions - finding training resources to help build skill level and support change initiatives.
• Management and leadership development - Assisting managers to develop best practices for their work at OU.

Organization Development has several aspects including:

• Consultation with key stakeholders.
• Organizational climate assessments.
• Needs analysis.
• Intervention design and execution.
• Implementation of measurement standards.