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BMI Dialogic OD Resources

Overview and frame of Dialogic OD

The aim of this course is to ground participants in the key aspects that connect Dialogic OD to a long tradition of helpful organisational and community change work.  At the same time, it will enable you to differentiate it from the diagnostic tradition, and you will gain an understanding of your own development needs in relation to the demands it makes on you as a practitioner.

In particular, participants are encouraged to explore the dialogic mindset which increasingly appears to be the most significant factor in whether the deployment of any of the relational techniques (such as Appreciative Inquiry, or Open Space) results in success.  It introduces the broader field of emancipatory engagement and the power of invitation and choice.

It concludes with practical lessons on the different applications within DOD, and the dynamic relationship between dialogic and diagnostic work processes, on the art of hosting, convening and facilitating, and with the opportunity to look again at your own ‘self’ as a generative presence with others.

Intended learning outcomes - you will be able to:

Explain the history and perspectives of Organisational Development and describe how Dialogic and Diagnostic OD are the same or similar, and what differentiates them.

Rather than necessarily advocating an ‘either/or’ model of OD, you can uphold the potential benefits of a blended approach, based on an understanding of your own mindset and by discerning the complex and contingent conditions in the presenting situation, and can consider how and when you work with different methods in a congruent way.

Name and explain the 8 key premises of the Dialogic OD mindset and the 3 core enablers of organisational change in Dialogic OD.

Appreciate the implications of applying dialogic mindset to hosting and facilitation, raising questions about working with leadership-followership power dynamics, control and emergence, and other themes within, and processes of, organising and change.

Start (or build upon) your learning practice through personal, reflexive inquiry exercises, potentially choosing to engage others (clients, co-consultants etc) to identify your own strengths and learning needs against the core competencies that differentiate dialogic practice and the ideas and skills introduced in this course.

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This is the first of the three compulsory on-line learning courses, which make up the theoretical base on which you can build your dialogic OD practice.

If you are following a certification or accreditation programme with the BMI or one of its partners, you will also need to complete the other 2 packages in this series.

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Programme resources

  • Contents – Overview and frame of Dialogic OD
    5 minutes
  • DOD – Self inquiry, reflection and feedback exercise
    30 minutes
  • History and practice of organisation development
    120 minutes
  • Introduction to Dialogic OD
    50 minutes
  • Enablers and premises of dialogic transformation
    0 minutes
  • Dynamic practices of Dialogic OD
    20 minutes
  • Hosting, convening and facilitating
    180 minutes
  • Develop your generative presence to be at your best
    30 minutes
  • DOD Module 1 – Review and test learning (1)
    28 questions
  • DOD Module 1 – Review and test learning (2)
    Text Based
  • DOD – Review your Dialogic OD competencies
    10 minutes

This BMI accreditation course offers

Leading edge content

We aim to go beyond the content that can be found in the BMI Dialogic OD sources – drawing on a wide range of Masters and Doctorate level sources on which the emergence of the field (becoming known as Dialogic OD) rests.  Each lesson draws on, and integrates hundreds of hours of deep research, often combining and making sense of dozens of books, numerous articles, websites and other publications, videos, podcasts and collaborative conversations – curated and combined through the lens of our own Dialogic OD practice of the last 20 years.

Different types of media to suit all needs

Each lesson will mix videos to watch, with material to read – all aimed to blend academic rigor, with reflective challenge and pragmatic application.

Products and downloadables to use in your work

Plus there are downloadable handouts, worksheets, templates and checklists to print and take away, and keep for future reference.

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