Chatting About Change with Dr. Jim Maddox - Organization Development in action at a small for-profit organization: Building engagement and leadership from the ground-up.

Organization Development in action at a small for-profit organization: Building engagement and leadership from the ground-up.

08/23/22 • 25 min

Chatting About Change with Dr. Jim Maddox

My guest this episode is Kayshia Kruger, who is the organization development director for a small organization in North Carolina. She shares how she has created, from the ground up, the organization development function in her organization of about 300 employees. We discuss some of the interesting projects she is engaged in currently such as employee engagement, learning & development, leadership development, and change management. A fascinating aspect of her role is how progressive her organization has been in terms of leveraging Organization Development. She also shares how the Organization Development function is a completely separate function and is not part of the Human Resource department, which is somewhat unique, especially for a smaller organization.

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SOAR, Appreciative Inquiry, and Strengths-Based approaches to Organization Development: A Conversation with Jackie Stavros.

My guest this episode is Jackie Stavros, keynote speaker, professor, consultant, author, and creator of the SOAR methodology. Dr. Stavros shares how she developed the SOAR methodology, which has revolutionized strategic planning and organization development, by bringing to the forefront a strengths-based approach to guiding strategy and organizational change. Jackie offers practical tips on how to successfully use the SOAR approach and how to facilitate conversations that create the space for organizations to create their own futures and grow and improve. She also shares ideas from her latest book, “Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement”. We discuss the key distinctions between mechanistic systems and human systems and the crucial role that engaging people in conversations plays in addressing human centered challenges. At the heart of this is the notion of dialogue and dialogic organization development.

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Voices of America’s First People, Surviving and Thriving Amidst Change: A conversation with Will Peters, a professional musician, high school teacher, community activist, and advocate for Native American youth.

My guest this episode is Will Peters, a professional musician, high school teacher, community activist, and advocate for Native American youth. Will, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, teaches and lives on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Will shares his stories of the struggles and triumphs of life on the reservation and shares passionately about his work with the young people, who are struggling with generational trauma, and efforts to combat the suicide epidemic affecting the native youth on Pine Ridge. I first met will about 10 years ago while volunteering with the organization Re-Member. Re-Member is an independent, non-profit organization working with the Oglala Lakota Nation on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota https://www.re-member.org/
Will speaks from the heart and his stories are powerful, challenging, and full of hope.