Organization Development: A Practitioner's Guide for OD and HR

The core of the diagnostic phase is still about getting robust and valid data to help the organization and you to make sound intervention decisions. However, on top of that, we need to pay special attention to human dynamics within a power differential domain.

People engagement questions

to generate sufficient data to become the catalyst for change in the client system

One of the major challenges in the diagnosis phase is to avoid letting your perceptual lens and the clients’ perceptual lens contaminate the data.

to gain the engagement and involvement of those key stakeholders

focusing on the ‘end game’,

It is never too early to map the political forces that may be blocking the system or to attempt to shift them

‘In order for the change implementation to be successful, who needs to get involved, be informed and become engaged?’

whose support is essential to the project.