Diagnostics, needs analysis and organisational development

Train as a coach?It is said that in California the people who made the money on the gold rush were the people selling the picks and shovels not those digging for gold. The same could be true in the world of Coaching, with those making the money selling training and profiling tools.

Over the past few weeks the CIPD members LinkedIn group have been involved in a poll looking at the employment 'state' of the profession, the results are not what many expected.

With over 500 people involved it is not a sample to be ignored.

Over the weekend I was asked why should a business blog? - this to me was an easy question to answer but it did spark a thought - why should corporate organisations encourage Blogging internally?

Now I am going to skip all of the competitive advantages and intellectual property arguments and come at this from the point of view that there should be internal blogs - by staff for staff.

What is a blog?

Performance Management - why bother?

The phrase performance management has been used for some time. Origionally developed out of "appraisals", Performance Management remains one of the consistently used 'methods' in the HR, OD and management field.

Recently the CIPD has conducted some research into performance management recently and the responses from 507 people are curious and leave the reader asking more questions than the research answered.

Organisational development (OD) is the label given to many HR and training related strategies, but it is more than that.

Bennis in his early work “Organizational Development: nature, origins & prospects” defines OD as:

“a response to change, a complex educational strategy intended to change the beliefs, attitudes, values and structure of organizations so that they can better adapt to new technologies, markets and challenges”