We also have a strong emphasis on personal awareness and interpersonal competence as a core of effective professional work and leadership. The program has a definite and important sequence. Each cohort group works through the sequence together. Classes meet two evenings per week plus one Saturday per month. Organization Development is about leading whole organizations in self-managed improvement in areas such as strategic change, competitive effectiveness, innovation in products and technology, responsiveness to changing markets and social environments, etc.
Training is aimed at increasing the ability of individuals to perform job-related functions.
It is often part of an OD project. But not all problems are solved by training. Often people know how to do the work, but they don't do what they know. Other factors get in the way, such as work flow, technology, organizational structure, the reward system, and the corporate culture. OD addresses these too.