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Organizational Development

To remain competitive, organizations must constantly change and improve. Strategic agility enables organizations to accomplish their mission while remaining on track with their vision. Through the careful implementation of organizational development interventions, The Center can help your organization adapt and achieve its goals by addressing the behavioral, cultural, and structural issues that are impeding its ability to improve.

Organizational development is an evidence-based scientific approach to help organizations change and reinforce organizational strategies, structures, and processes. Organizational development interventions are designed to address a specific issue. It differs from typical workplace improvements in that it is planned, systematic, and usually more intensive.

Although different types of organizational development interventions require different implementation strategies, all share a few key steps:

1. Define the issues

2. Diagnose the problem

3. Design an intervention

4. Implement the intervention

5. Evaluate the intervention

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