Topics in 2001
The first meeting on 27th March 2001 was hosted by Cable
and Wireless and addressed the questions
Leadership - Changing leaders - whose agenda is it?
"Should we be trying to change successful people at the
top of organisations or to understand their strengths and
put things in place to counter their relative weaknesses?
Is change their agenda or ours?"
Developing Creativity / Innovation - drawing learning on
supporting innovation from the entrepreneurial mindset of
venture capital into a leading creative organisation
The June seminar was hosted by GSK at their new headquarters
building and Euan Semple from the BBC joined the group to
talk about his passion for Weblogs and their application /
influence on organisational learning.
Other themes included merger integration, leadership, research
into best practice business schools and balance between being
an OD practitioner and managing.
In September the group focused on the value of executive
coaching and its links to organisation development hosted
by Shell International. In December at a meeting hosted by
PwC we explored an individual case study around initiating
organisation development activity in a organisation with little
experience of OD through influencing strategic planning.
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