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Levels of Organisational Development – Level 6 – Self-organisation and self-development
Level 6: Self-organisation and self-development Level 1 – Formation Level 2 – Formalisation Level 3 – Integration Level 4 – Expansion Level 5 – Coordination The distinctive features of the self-organisation and self-development level of organisational development, otherwise known as a holacracy, is characterised by: – a) A reduction in central control and management. […]
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Following on from the previous posts about this new research, today I look at level 5 of the six levels of organisational development. Level five is the coordination level. Level 1 – Formation Level 2 – Formalisation Level 3 – Integration Level 4 – Expansion Level 5: Coordination As the organisation or […]
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Why many people’s idea about how we learn is just plain wrong
Why the Levels of Learning are not saying what many think they are: The levels of learning are not and were never intended to be about ‘how’ we learn… Many organisations, consultants, institutions and almost all Higher Education (University and Colleges) use Blooms Hierarchy or taxonomy of educational objectives (levels of learning) to describe the learning […]
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Levels of organisational development – Level 4
Level 4 of the 6 levels of organisational development is the expansion level of organisational development This post continues from: The Levels of Organisational Development- Level 1 or the Formation Stage, Levels of Organisational Development – Level 2 – The formalisation stage of organisational development Levels of Organisational Development – Level 3 – the integration stage of development […]
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At what point can you say you have learned something?
“I learned something today…” Did you really? Like really learned it? We often take the idea of learning and having learned for granted and frequently make a series of rather large and unquestioned assumptions about at what point we can actually say someone has learned something. The evaluation of learning in many organisations, including our universities […]
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Levels of Organisational Development – Level 3
Level 3 of the 6 levels of organisational development is the integration stage of organisational development This post continues from: The Levels of Organisational Development- Level 1 or the Formation Stage, and Levels of Organisational Development – Level 2 – The formalisation stage of organisational development In this post I look at Level 3 of the 6 stages […]
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Levels of Organisational Development – Level 2
This post follows on from The Levels of Organisational Development. In that post I explored Level 1 or the Formation Stage of the six levels of organisational development. In this post I will look in a bit more detail at level 2 – The formalisation stage of organisational development: Level 2: Formalisation Stage The distinctive […]
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Authentic Leadership and Being Authentic – What does that mean anyway?
Being authentic The leadership, management and personal development literature and lore is repleat with appeals and even demands for authenticity. Management and leadership courses, consultants and coaches extol the virtues of how to be authentic and genuine. It sounds good but what are we really asking for here? What do we actually mean by being […]
Read moreThe Levels of Organisational Development
If I was to tell you that some recent research ( Levels of organisational development ) has been able to analyse and describe exactly where an organisation is at any moment in time, and where it should be heading next? Useful eh? Well it has been done. Over the next few weeks I will delve into […]
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How to teach empathy : New research
Is empathy just part of our personality or can it be taught / learned? Many organisations have empathy as part of their values or competencies with little consideration about whether it can be developed and if it can, how to teach empathy or how to develop it. The closest many organisations get to […]
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