Apprenticing Internal OD Consultant(s)
WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE ALMOST 70% OF THE PLANET EXPERIENCE DECREASING INVOLVEMENT IN PARTICIPATORY DECISION MAKING.
The human species is living through a polycrisis. Many crises in one moment. The climate, environment, habitats, communities and crops are all suffering from our myopic actions. Education too. In Schools and for vocations. Critical thinking and accurate empathy are at a premium. We tumble through traffic, snort through polluted air and thirst for clean water.
And yet we are slow to read the signs, even slower to translate them for our survival, let alone thriving. Our homocentric nature gets in the way. Learning from history is not as easy as it may read. Consider this.
THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE WHO HAVE OD CERTIFICATIONS OR COURSE CREDENTIALS THAN
THERE ARE ACTUAL PRACTITIONERS.
India’s organisations are on a unique pivot —balancing tradition with transformation; even as the headwinds are strong due to geo-political turbulence, trade barriers and immature formalisation of OD based knowledge in India. As your external consultant, my role is not just to provide pertinent approaches in OD, but to co-create them with you, leveraging my deep-rooted expertise and nuanced understanding of the Indian work organisation.
Toward Transformative Impact and Setting the Stage for Capability Building
Imagine a future-ready organisation—agile, adaptive, and empowered from within. Now more than ever in India’s institutional landscape, the need for robust capability building through Organisation Development (OD) is not just a choice; it is tending toward an imperative for indigenous or homegrown competencies in organisational renewal. But how does one translate this vision into reality, ensuring sustainability and growth in a uniquely Indian context?
JUST AS ALL ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE BEGINS WITH A PERSONAL ONE, SO DO TRANSFORMATIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL ECOLOGIES COMMENCE WITH EFFECTIVE ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE.
Here’s the proposition: while I bring the vantage point of an external facilitator—relatively objective, reportedly experienced, and possibly insightful because of these—I invite you (and your team) to apprentice as internal consultant(s) within your own organisation, or what we call the client system. We will proceed on the OD map, phase by phase, on a territory is better known to you.
The Consulting Process: Apprenticing Internal OD Consultant(s) with me - Dr Joseph George Anjilvelil
Expect these
Skill Transfer: Through hands-on engagement, I will demystify the OD consulting process. Enrich your Use of Self in practice. Hone your OD competencies. And WE equip your internal teams with frameworks, methodologies, and tools tailored to your unique context. Based on science and tempered with humanism for actionable insight in your own field of action!!
Empowered Ownership: By acting as internal consultants, you as professionals develop critical diagnostic and intervention skills, making change sustainable long after the engagement concludes. Yes, your sponsors too will find safety and the freedom from quackery in a resource hungry world.
Guided Practice & Knowledge Building: My guidance ensures that while you learn and implement, you are never alone—mistakes become learning opportunities, and successes become stepping stones for further growth. We also open our work to academics for them to evaluate and document the deepening of the OD practice. We feedback to the committed in higher education ethically and responsibly.
India’s organisations deserve OD initiatives that are contextual, meaningful, and owned by those who live and breathe their culture daily. Helping them overcome dysfunctional dependence on centralised authority for contemporary shared leadership could be on the horizon for you? Or creating new enterprise with sustainable foundations from the very inception?
With over three decades of professional experience straddling both academia and practice, I bring a blend of theory and real-world insight to the table. For ten consecutive years, I served as a university faculty member, nurturing minds and curating knowledge that can suit India’s unique needs. The consulting practice has allowed me to engage with diverse organisations, transforming challenges into opportunities for enduring growth at the individual, group and organisational levels. I’ve often shared how I’ve reframed client challenges for their insight – especially among top management cadres- and thus yielded more valid intervention approaches. My writing and editing as special edition Guest Editor for OD in India’s NHRDN journal will reveal the width and depth of our context.
To calibrate your organisation’s readiness to apprentice you, fill out this form. https://forms.gle/NNQDaPZ3cL48B2nr5
Securing long-range commitment may be still something to work on? Sure, that’s an influence yet to be made in most cases. Send a note on your context to josephg@workplacecatalysts.com to request a more informed conversation. Not all situations are made equal or come from the same points of origin. Include nominal details of the size, spread, sector, nature of incorporation and organisational performance history in your note.
You can claim a conversation slot via Zoom on his scheduling link below.
https://calendly.com/josephg-workplacecatalysts/qualifying-od
