Since my death, "professional" OD article was published a month ago, I asked if organizational effectiveness (OE) consultants will meet the same fate. My answer is "no." Of course, this assumes that OE consultants do not follow the same destructive path that the Organization Development (OD) selected professionals.
OD practitioners made the mistake of non-cooperation with clients to produce business results. organizational development professionals looked at business executives (clients) with disdain. They have seen men and women business as bourgeois money thieves do not care workers. His anti-business, anti-capitalism, anti-management rhetoric has led to their own demise. (You can not look down your nose in the business of his client and hope to continue in business for himself.)
OE consultants, who share a different mindset, share a different fate. OE consultants meet with clients and serve as as business partners. Let me make the following predictions for the future of the query OE:
1. OE consultants act as strategic business partner status and recognition of their organizations. Also, wages will increase value of their experience becomes more widely recognized. (An added value approach will be essential to the achievement of this prediction.)
2. The title Official Chief Learning Officer (CLO), or the Director of Organizational Effectiveness will become commonplace in leading companies. These positions will be responsible for all organizational learning and change efforts.
3. The role of OD practitioners will continue to decline in importance for two reasons: (A) professional development have not adopted a strategic partnership approach, and (b) many OD practices have already been adopted by major U.S. companies.
4. OE consultants will become more sensitive to the needs of senior management. OE consultants will become a valuable of the company (or independent) source of advice on managing difficult issues such as succession planning, creation and transfer of tacit knowledge, and talent development organization.
5. OE consultants to develop higher levels of counseling skills to increase value for its customers.
If you are a consultant OE, there are several things you should consider:
Bob Pike said: "Deliver what is necessary, not only As requested. "
David Ulrich predicts, "business organizations in the future to compete aggressively for top talent."
I predicted: "In the future, leaders will seek levels of tacit knowledge and experience secondary to add to 'basic skills and their organizations a competitive advantage. These basic skills as well developed human capital, become the most important organizational form of competitive advantage sustainable. "How can we add value to customers") in your organization (or its core competencies and competitive advantage? You can not remain motionless in a world moving fast!
About the Author
Dr. Mike Beitler is the author of “Strategic Organizational
Change” and “Strategic Organizational Learning”. His books are
used at General Motors, Coca-Cola, IBM, Wachovia, BASF, Glaxo
Smith Kline, Daimler-Chrysler, and many more great companies.
His work is written for practitioners who need real-world tools
and strategies to be truly effective in their organizations.
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Relationship Problems? Personality Profiling Can Help
Have you ever wondered just what makes another family member tick? They probably wonder just the same about you! With personality profiling you can discover how to improve any relationship. Before looking into the relevance of profiling in relationships, first a little background.
Introduction
People are different – but they are predictably different. A personality profile helps predict how someone will react in a given situation, helping you understand what motivates them – and what they’re trying to avoid. And they can understand you too. In his book “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”, Dr Stephen Covey said: “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
In 1926 Dr William Marston, an expert in behavioural understanding and the inventor of the polygraph (lie-detector), devised a system to understand people’s personality styles. In his book “The Emotions of Normal People” he grouped people according to their active or passive tendencies, dependent upon their view of the environment. The main styles identified are:
D – Drive – “My Way” (3% of the population)
I – Influence – “The Fun Way” (12% of the population)
C – Compliance – “The Right Way” (16% of the population)
S – Steadiness – “The Safe Way” (69% of the population)
Of course there aren’t just four styles, as everyone exhibits different levels of each of the four, resulting in an almost infinite number of combinations of the main styles. In fact a profile that showed someone as all one style would be extremely suspect. Your style, for instance, may be a combination of ‘High D’, ‘Medium I’, ‘Fairly C’ and ‘Low S’. No style is inherently ‘Good’ or ‘Bad’.
The aim of profiling is to identify and play to your strengths, while utilising the self-awareness of possible weaknesses. If you choose to share this knowledge with others, and they’re willing for you to study their profiles, relationships can be transformed.
Suddenly you may realise that what seemed to be an irritating trait in your partner has value you never appreciated before.
The personality profile derived from the combination of the different levels of each style gives an amazingly accurate profile of the subject in:
How they think of themselves;
How others see them;
How they act under stress;
Their communication preference;
Greatest fears;
Greatest motivators.
Knowing your own preferred style, and that of others, can go a long way towards creating an environment in which Dr Covey’s recommendation to “Think Win/Win” can flourish.
1. Responsibilities can be shared in a way that best utilises talents, instead of putting round pegs in square holes. For instance a High C hates conflict, so their High D partner would be better suited to complaining about poor service.
2. When you understand a partner’s greatest fears, this may explain many things that remain unsaid. In the example above, the High D who enjoys a full and frank exchange of views, may finally realise why a High C partner repeatedly puts off making that phone call of complaint.
3. You will understand how to motivate your partner, how they set goals for themselves and how best to support them. The High I ‘big picture’ goal-setter will often benefit from some detailed plans prepared by a High C family member.
4. You will learn possible growth areas – a High I may get a better response from others if they talk less and listen more. A High S can try to be more open to change. A high D and a high C may both come to appreciate the benefits of developing personal relationships, although these two will initially exhibit very different styles.
5. Graphs in the personality profile can identify normal individuals going through a tough time – for instance stress at work, or those too wary of making a move for fear of failure. They do not identify mental health problems.
6. Different styles communicate very differently. For example a high S working with a high D may withdraw in the face of the D’s direct style, thus slowing down results. When both are aware of their communication styles they can seek to modify their communication style and at least allow for the other’s point of view, even though they are unlikely adopt it themselves.
7. Personality profiling terminology provides a less-confrontational language for pointing out a partner’s unhelpful behaviour. For instance, “You need to up your C today” is likely to be better received than “Don’t you ever stop and think before you act?”
Obviously any of this knowledge could be used exploitatively, but that is counter-productive to building good relationships and has no place in the ethical use of personality profiling. If you fear that your partner might abuse the knowledge gained, it would be unwise to share it – relationship counselling would then be more appropriate.
Have you guessed what your style is? I guessed mine, before completing the questionnaire, and I was completely wrong. However, I have to confess that, as I read the report, I could see that I was deceiving myself, and in fact the analysis knew me better than I did. I wanted badly to be a High D – direct, dominant and demanding, instead I was a High C – compliant, contemplative and careful.
At first I was disappointed, but the point of personality profiling is to highlight strengths. Don’t be fooled into think that C and S styles are weak – they’re not. The more of the report I read, the more I realised that characteristics I was lukewarm about in myself are actually strengths I can use to move forward in a way that won’t make me feel threatened and I now know (and recognise from the past) the pitfalls I need to avoid.
What is your partner’s profile? Reading my own partner’s report, with his permission, gave me a new insight into some of his character traits. Knowing the motivation behind them helps me more deeply appreciate his talents and realise that we just have different ways of expressing ourselves.
How about your teenager son or daughter, now so difficult to understand? Think what it would be like to get into their heads and know what makes them tick. The possibilities are endless – for self-knowledge and for better inter-personal relationships at home and at work.
For a free eBook on other benefits and applications of personality profiling and to download a free sample report visit the website below.
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One of the most important parts of our legal system is dealing with children in the family situation. Divorce is never pleasant, but can be particularly difficult for children which can often end up blaming themselves for their parents separate.
What many people want to know if the separation or divorce is what happens to children, where they will live and how often they see the other parent? No wonder there are so many answers to what is separating couples so it is not possible to give specific advice here. What is clear is that law in any dispute between the parents (divorce, financial, contact), to place an order, the main objective of the Child Welfare Court.
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When the agreement is not possible then it will be necessary to ask the Court under the Children Act 1989 for the court to issue an order declaring that children should live with different and how often they see the other parent. The court often request a report from the Family Court and counseling of children and support services (CAFCASS) to help decide what action to take in the best interest of the child. Although children are generally not represented in the proceedings, depending on their maturity age provision can be made to your wishes and opinions are taken into account and can participate in the process CAFCASS statement. If necessary to comply with legal process, so good legal advice is vital and lawyers on the panel of the Law of expertise in law Society family to handle these cases.
Legal aid may be available for cases involving children depends on their income and savings. You should ask about it to see a lawyer.
The law may also intervene to protect children. In most cases, if the Council County Children Services team determines the child is at risk of harm or neglect, to take measures to protect children by placing them in the risk register from or through legal proceedings that may lead to the child is permanently removed from the home and placed in custody or adoption.
A wide range of reasons why the County Council all participants and can never lead to the court. Social workers try to help families stay together and if is considered necessary to appoint a social worker, then proper legal advice would be to try to work with them and see them as a support for a period difficult, and not as the enemy because it can appear so easily.
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Are there any statistics about international adoptions where children are adopted abroad FROM the USA?
Yes, Gershom.
Yes, Gershom.
Yes, Gershom.
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