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Organization Development Certificate
Supervised Consulting Project
Goals:
- Apply and refine knowledge and skill gained through the OD Certificate Program to an OD consultation with an actual organizational client.
- Further develop skills and confidence with OD principles and their application and help to organizational clients.
Competencies:
- Reflect, Integrate, Act
- Organization Development Theory
- Organzational Systems
- Self-Knowledge and Development
- Interpersonal and Group Skills
- Change Technologies
- Collaborative Change Processes
This is a capstone experience in which learners apply their knowledge, experience, and skills to real organizational issues with actual client organizations.
Consulting Project Process:
Learners work in consulting teams of two, or individually, with pre-screened client organizations that are appropriate for an OD consulting intervention. In most cases, consulting teams have a choice of consultation projects so they can choose projects that most closely provide the experience that learners want.
Faculty provide supervision, support, and expertise to the consulting teams or individuals. It is the responsibility of the consulting teams to contract with clients, collect data, hold feedback meetings, and design and deliver client interventions.
The consulting projects begin with a faculty-led seminar introducing the expectations of the consulting work, and defining client, student, and faculty roles.
Consulting projects are designed to be completed over a period of approximately 4 to 5 months. Each faculty supervisor schedules approximately 3 meetings over the 4- to 5-month period with each of the consulting project teams. The purpose of these meetings is to:
- Provide guidance and support for the consultation projects,
- Share dilemmas and seek perspectives from colleagues and faculty, and
- Learn from your colleagues about a range of consulting problems, solutions, and issues beyond your own client situation.
These meetings may be face-to-face or utilize technology including teleconference, the ANE Intranet system (FirstClass), or other technology.
Faculty will be available to each consulting team on an as-needed basis to provide feedback and guidance directly to the consulting team or individual consultant during their consulting project.
The final meeting of the OD Certificate cohort includes a presentation by each consulting team or consultant on learning—both planned and unplanned—to the entire cohort.
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