Introducing Hybrid OD (Organization Development)

Organizations today are struggling to respond and adapt effectively due to the VUCA-like conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Part of the reason organizations are struggling is that they are using a change methodology that is outdated, ineffective for the times in which we live. To compete effectively today, to adequately and rapidly respond to ever-changing conditions, it requires a change approach that leverages complexity, while embracing uncertainty.

It requires an approach that can temper the effects of volatility while acknowledging the perpetual ambiguity that afflicts us all. Hence, in today’s episode, we discuss a new approach to bringing about organizational change. This new approach we call Hybrid OD – which reflects a blending of diagnostic, dialogic, and experiential methods, tools, and techniques. Hybrid OD is a modern, rapid, inquiry-based, foresight-driven, strategic learning model that is suited for the times; that is, it is a method that can effectively work with and leverage VUCA-like conditions.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode, you will learn:

• What is Hybrid OD (how we define Hybrid OD)

• The case for why Hybrid OD is needed today

• How Hybrid OD manifests (the forms it takes)

• Types of challenges Hybrid OD addresses

• The #1 secret why Hybrid OD is effective

Hope you enjoy!

-Randall Scott

Related Reading

• Integrating Dialogic OD with Diagnostic OD

• Complexity Leadership Model: Solving Intractable Challenges

• What is Organization Development?

See how these ideas come together in practice. Explore the Complexity Leadership Model, our hybrid of diagnostic and dialogic OD.

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