THE OD HACKATHON 2023

The OD Hackathon hosts 8 hands-on OD hacks including appreciative inquiry, team coaching, Lego Serious Play, and more. Learn from international practitioners including Professor Tony Wall, Dr Rachel Robins, Afshan Baksh, and others.

It is for those evolving into OD roles or those wanting to refresh and hone their practice. Specifically, it will enable participants to

1. keep up-to-date with OD practice and key challenges around engagement, voice, inclusion, and wellbeing

2. share issues with specialists in live Q&A style dialogue

3. develop their credibility and showcase their expertise in writing and sharing their work with other practitioners globally through the open-access, ranked Journal of Work-Applied Management.

As the event will be action-oriented, delegates will be expected to be prepared to take action during and after the event.

The OD Hackathon is supported by the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development), GCWAL (Global Centre for Work Applied Learning) and ALARA (Association for Action Learning and Action Research) to share and future-proof organisational development practice and practitioner research.

This event is one of many benefits of CIPD membership.

This event is hosted and supported by Liverpool Business School at Liverpool John Moores University.

Speaker

• Professor Tony Wall – Liverpool Business School / Stockholm University Sweden / Phu Xuan University Vietnam
  
• David Hayden – The CIPD
  
• Dr Rachel Robins & Christine McDonald – The Conversation Company
  
• Dr Rachel Hawley – NHS Leadership Academy
  
• Professor Jonathan Garnett – Global Centre for Work Applied Learning, Australia
  
• Afshan Baksh – Transformation Space
  

Professor Tony Wall – Liverpool Business School / Stockholm University Sweden / Phu Xuan University Vietnam

Professor Tony Wall is a specialist in transformative methodologies including organisational development for wellbeing. Professor Wall is ranked as #1 globally for ‘management development’ (Google Scholar), and his work is featured in the top 5% (of all outputs tracked by Altmetrics). The excellence of his collaborative research approaches with local government (e.g. public health) and across regions has been independent judged as “world-leading” and continues to be used by the European Union. His recent research work was funded by The British Academy to examine the use of Appreciative Inquiry by policy makers for the empowerment of minority ethnic young people. He is recognised in the World Health Organization’s “Global literature on coronavirus disease” database and in The World List of Sustainability Researchers

OD Hackathon Day 1: 14th June (Tithebarn Room G08)

9:00 Refreshments

9:15 Welcome

9:30-11:00 Session 1: CIPD Q&A – David Hayden & Tony Wall

11:00-11:15 Refreshments

11:15-12:45 Session 2: Mary Clarke: Conversations for Opening-Up everyday OD

12.45-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 3: Dr Rachel Robins: Group coaching for OD

15:00-15:15 Refreshments

15:15-15:45 Session 4: Prof Tony Wall: Appreciative Inquiry for OD

15:45-16:30 Plenary

OD Hackathon Day 2: 15th June (Tithebarn Room G08)

9:00 Refreshments

9:15 Welcome and lightening talk

9:30-11:00 Session 5: Christine McDonald: Team Coaching for OD

11:00-11:15 Refreshments

11:15-12:45 Session 6: Prof Jonathan Garnett & Paul Jurman: Work-applied Learning for OD

12:45-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 7: Afshan Baksh: Lego for OD

15:00-15:15 Refreshments

15:15-16:45 Session 8: Dr Rachel Hawley: Portraiture for OD

16:45-17:00 Plenary

OD Writing Day - 16th June (Tithebarn Room G09)

9:00 Refreshments

9:15 Welcome and lightening talk

9:30-11:00 Writing session 1

11:00-11:15 Refreshments

11:15-12:45 Writing session 2

12:45-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Writing session 3

15:00-15:15 Refreshments

15:15-16:45 Writing session 4

16:45-17:00 Plenary

Session 1: OD Q&A

In this opening session, a panel will listen to key OD challenges and questions from the delegates, and offer insights, further questions, or ideas.

Session 2: Conversations for opening up everyday OD

In this hack, delegates will practice how to talk about OD in their organisation and rehearse a checklist of powerful questions for helping others to think more broadly and strategically about their OD challenges.

Session 3: Group Coaching for OD

In this hack, delegates experience how cost-effective group coaching can be used as an OD intervention for personal development. Using coaching approaches, tools and techniques delegates will have the opportunity to share thoughts and ideas while creating their own up to date goal setting through the use personal thought space.

Session 4: Appreciative Inquiry for OD

In this hack, delegates practice cycles of appreciative inquiry with questions and tactics to keep focused on the organisational development task.

Session 5: Team Coaching for OD

In this hack, delegates practice the key activity of triad contracting which ensures that all parties in the contracting of team coaching (team, organisational sponsor and coaches) achieve their aims and objectives for successful outcomes.

Session 6: Work-applied learning for OD

In this hack, delegates will explore the use of a work-applied-learning intervention which maximises the impact of work-based learning projects and action learning for OD.

Session 7: Lego for OD

In this hack, delegates will experience Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) as an inclusive and engaging way to help employees explore problems, perspectives and possibilities in relation to their work challenges. Delegates will work to tackle the following challenge using LSP principles: How can we develop a more inclusive and connected environment in our organisation?

Session 8: Portraiture for OD

In this hack, delegates can experience how portraiture can be used as a reflexive OD intervention, building collaborative and relational practice. Using storytelling and artefacts delegates have the opportunity to practice stages of the portraiture approach and explore how the approach may be applied across organisational development contexts.

Host or Publisher CIPD Merseyside and North Cheshire Branch