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…
In the lead-up to Roffey Park Institute’s exclusive and anticipated 2-day improvisation (improv) in organisations workshop, which will be run by the well-renowned Neil Mullarkey and Henry Larsen, we sat down and spoke to Roffey Park employee and improv enthusiast Luca Pezzano to find out more. Luca has been partaking in improv classes for several…
Chris Mowles will be one of the keynote speakers at Roffey Park Institute’s OD Conference on the 26th to 27th of October 2023. Being an academic, Chris is looking forward to meeting those from the OD community and having conversations about helping people manage the uncertainty of everyday organisational life. Chris hopes to bring some…
Over a year on from the highly controversial partygate scandal and subsequent Sue Gray report, it seems reasonable to comment again on the declining lack of trust the people of the UK has in its leading public bodies, including the Met Police. Before, I drew upon the statistics of the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer Global…
During the 26th-27th of October, Dr Graham Curtis will be one of the keynote speakers at Roffey Park Institute’s OD Conference. Graham will draw upon his doctoral research to encourage us to explore how we think about our practice which puts curiosity and doubt at the heart of how we work. Graham is passionate for…
We have a tendency to try and predict the future of OD but we can never be certain of what that looks like. What we do know is that people belong at the heart of the process but this has been dramatically challenged during the post-Covid world. Supply chains have been disrupted and the energy…
Books, or forms of books, have existed since 4000 BC and to this day remain as important as ever. Despite recent accelerations in technology, books remain the staple of most learning forms, especially research, knowledge gathering and storytelling. The learning and development space is where it is today thanks to the extensive amount of research…
On Tuesday I attended the Inclusive Leadership Navigator virtual event at Roffey Park Institute, led by the expert Sile Walsh, to explore how inclusive leadership contributes to psychological safety, organisational performance and employee engagement. The discussion began by asking the listeners to answer some questions about their experiences with inclusion and exclusion. The responses were…
As most of us are probably aware, the England men’s national football team gracefully bowed out of the 2022 World Cup last week. As a passionate football fan, I was upset. Not many times have I been able to say that an England team were better than the French on the night, but it was…
In November of 1989, Roffey Park Institute looked like a completely different place than it does at present. The residential area was being built and so the bedrooms lay where the kitchen garden does today, the building of the atrium and the swimming pool had only just been commissioned and the neighbouring stud farm owned…
In house training is training that is delivered exclusively to your team, either within your organisation, at the premises of the provider or online. In house leadership training is an alternative form of training to leadership open courses, the main difference being one delivered to your team and the other being open to anyone. There…
