Organizational development requires constant updating on best practices to increase and sustain businesses’ ability to change. Today, workplace paradigms have shifted as individuals prefer to pursue careers more aligned with their values and mental health. To fulfill employees’ desire to do meaningful work, organizations must continue to innovate and adopt with the people-focused approach.
Organizations have realized that their current structure no longer affords them the luxury of time, flexibility, and continuity. That’s why to facilitate their growth and productivity; companies are adopting new learning strategies that adapt to the requirements of new generations of workers and align closely with organizational objectives. Some of the fastest emerging trends in organizational development today are mobile technology, social media, online learning, and flexible or adaptive learning principles. These trends are completely transforming the way of measuring results and organizational effectiveness.
Creating lasting relationships with the workforce means empowering them with the learning tools they require to build a career within the organization. This also demands to adapt to new generations’ values, be it more independence, better peer collaboration, or more meaning at work. Today’s workforce values a work culture open to different opinions and responsive to new ideas. Companies with such a culture throughout their organization and special leadership engagement efforts tend to effectively meet their objectives.
As the corporate world shift to new normal after the events of the past two years, companies have a meaningful opportunity to rethink their organizational effectiveness, recreate a new reality, and redefine the end game. Organizational development is built on change management, and change is about people. Though the goals and ways to achieve those objectives alter, the human construct remains unchanged.
Uncertainty often brings challenges, but clearly defined and understood challenges can lead to greater effectiveness. This pooling of increased effectiveness strengthens organizational development capabilities and competencies.
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