Dialogic Organisational Development
The health of the relational, communication and emotional systems within organisations are crucial to their wellbeing and efficacy. Yet, existing in the invisible space of group and system dynamics, are often overlooked.
Dialogic organisational development works to bring the unseen people systems into the light to create alignment of purpose, resolve conflicts and disputes, and to enhance collective system capability.
Dialogic organisational development is effective for a range of people systems from teams to whole organisations.
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Dialogic organisational development goes beyond stand team building to work at a deep level of human communication, relationship and understanding.
Combining skills and approaches from narrative theory, psychology and philosophy it facilitates meaningful and transformative conversations that release new potentials and energy for coordinated action.
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Dialogic Organisational Development is good for effective with almost all people system challenges. For example it can help with
Creating High Performance Teams
Building Resistance
Creating a Flourishing Organisation
Creating Sustainable Change
Enhancing Employee Engagement
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Dialogic organisational development can benefit any team or organisation as it works with the living human system of the organisation through the medium of language and meaning creation.
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How people relate to each other, the information they choose to share (or not), the way they are aligned in purpose, the degree of trust between them all contribute to the effectiveness of the team or organisation.
Help people work better together and you will reduce the costs of mis-alignment, internal feuds and conflicts, distrust and information hoarding.
You will gain from the smoother flowing systems of relationship and communication, the joint clarity of purpose, the enhanced ability to work together and the deeper understanding of themselves as a whole system
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Dialogic organisational development, as the name suggests, works through the medium of language and communication.
In essence we facilitate deeper and different conversations from which new understanding, connections and potentials for action can arise.
Specific techniques that we use include
Appreciative Inquiry
Open Space
World Cafe
All our development work is grounded in positive psychology.
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I am a chartered organisational psychologist with deep background in group work and extensive experience working with many organisations in this way over many years.