Are you diversifying where you are learning your OD practices from? Can OD tap more into local communities and cultures without being by the book? This October, Organisational Culture Expert and CEO of People Strategies Hawaiʻi, Ku’ulani Keohokalole will be talking at Roffey Park about how indigenous values and wisdom resonate with the practice of…
Football is a simple game – twenty-two people run around trying to kick a ball into two nets. But underneath the surface, when only the very few reach the top, it can be one of the most strategy-intense, pressurised and scrutinised sports in the world. As a child growing up, all I did was want…
With the UK general election tomorrow and the Irish and US general elections just around the corner, we begin to enter a period of uncertainty. Many of us will want to know what this will mean for people, management and leadership during turbulent times. Experts will try to foresee the effects that the election results…
Recently we sat down with Gavin Deadman, Learning and Development Partner at Manchester University who spoke about his journey on the Organisation Development Practitioners Programme (ODP). Gavin, alongside some of his colleagues, attended the OD Practitioners Programme as part of an in-house programme targeting their specific context and needs. Gavin shared some valuable insights into…
A world without workers may not be lightyears away with the rapid evolution of technology and artificial intelligence supercharging globalisation. Commentators differ on how they see the digital revolution playing out – ‘it could be utopia, or it could be hell.’ Despite the reality of this being perhaps beyond our lifetime, the digitalisation and automation…
Our next staff spotlight welcomes Head of Faculty, Ciara Halloran. Ciara joined Roffey Park Institute as an associate in 2019 working on Leadership Development programmes with our Irish clients. In 2021 she became a Senior Consultant in Organisational Development and since then has been promoted to Head of Faculty and recently interim Head of Operations…
Graham Curtis ran a fascinating session at Roffey Park Institute’s annual OD Conference not long ago where he spoke about complexity theory and what that means in organisational practice. He joined us post-conference to explain it further. Complexity theory emerged in the early 90s with the use of computer simulations and entities within a computer…
Our staff spotlight series continues as we welcome Brian O’Mahony to Roffey Park Institute, who joins the sales and marketing team as Client Relationship Manager based out of our Dublin office. Brian was born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary Ireland which is a town of 20,000 people in the south of Ireland. Brian went to university…
Trust in groups is like water is for fish – you do not notice it until it has gone. It is built incrementally through the daily interactions of sharing, valuing and reciprocating vulnerability. As leaders and colleagues, the decisions we make around how we connect with, and relate to, others offer the opportunity to build…
During the 26th-27th of October, Shelly Hossain will be one of the keynote speakers at Roffey Park Institute’s OD Conference. Shelly has been awarded 5 national awards over the years for her EDI work, so it comes as no surprise that her announcement as lead speaker is incredibly exciting for all those who plan on attending.…
By Emma du Parcq and George Barnes. To be agile, in any sense, is to be able to move quickly and easily and adapt to a current situation. In organisational terms, it is about responding to a sometimes complex, uncertain and ever-changing business environment. It is also the ability to predict the near future, and…
Last week we sat down with valued Roffey Park alumnus and former participant of the Organisational Development (OD) Practitioners Programme, Rebecca Gane. Rebecca shared some fascinating personal insight into her journey on the programme, her thoughts on the course content and how it related to her experiences within her organisation as well as any advice…
