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How to Get Started In Organizational Consulting [On-Air Coaching with David Manguiat]

Consulting Matters

To be an organizational development consultant, you have to: Be a systems thinker. Problems tackled through organizational development : ODs are typically brought in when a company is going from one life cycle to the next. How to break into organizational development - find a mentor and make yourself indispensable.

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Chris Hoff’s Guide for Consultants and Coaches Navigating Radical Change

Consulting Matters

From Loma Linda University in marriage & family therapy, where his concentration was in organizational development and systems consulting. After his corporate and entrepreneurial success, he decided to follow his dream of becoming a therapist. His formal education includes a Ph.D.

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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Carefully and appropriately choose your organizational development interventions. Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). Picture a fall Friday morning in a downtown office.

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Implementing Technology to Support Change

Harmonious Workplaces

Watch this video with the transcript below: Sometimes, to facilitate organizational change, we need to add another element—new technologies. What are some best practices for selecting and implementing new technologies to support change?

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Bonus: A game design history…

Seth Godin Blog

Two videos for when you might have time. For no really good reason, I filmed this long riff about my experience with the early days of video and adventure games. Alas, I didn’t mention many of the people who did the extraordinary work of programming, of organizational development and of believing in possibility.

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Hire Unemployed Workers: Ease Workforce Worries

Harmonious Workplaces

The secret source of top labor in 2024 I created this video as part of a challenge issued by Erica Holthausen’s Mainstay Mavens group of professionals who create content to make small changes in our big world.

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Mental & Physical Health Support During a Career Crisis

Harmonious Workplaces

Among the decisions I needed to make which could have profound effects on my career and my family, I found myself torn between what I had prepared to do since I reentered graduate school — management consulting in organizational development and change management — and what I had done as a consultant and executive, MarCom (marketing communications).