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List Purpose
The Organization Development Network (OD Network) is sponsoring this list to create opportunities for new professionals in the field of OD to communicate. The list serves as the primary means of communication between members of the New Professionals Learning Group (NPLG). Just as important as a medium for communication, it will serve as a place for dialogue around the issues we face as new professionals as well as the avenue for sharing ideas, insights, and experiences as we establish ourselves in the field.
Who Can Subscribe
This list is open to anyone who can receive electronic mail. We strongly encourage ALL people who are new to the field of OD to join the list. (It is important to note that over 46% of the current ODNet membership has 0-5 years experience in OD). With this encouragement, please recognize the list is open to all people interested in the issues of new professionals in the field, regardless of experience. This includes practitioners, teachers, students, clients, etc. It will be the shared thoughts and input from these various perspectives that will allow us to best determine and then build a means to support the needs of new professionals. We particularly welcome people with diverse points of view on the world, our work, and the relevance of our work to our world.
Since we will be discussing a variety of different issues that face new professionals, the limit and range of the conversation we will have on this list is boundless. In recognizing this, it is important that we maintain an environment that supports openness to all ideas, the willingness to receive and discuss differing perspectives, and the clear understanding that our goal is to support one another in our growth and development in the field.
Topics
Representative topics on the ODNet-NPLG list include, but are not limited to:
I. Skills/Learning
- Not being limited by theory
- Need for guided practice
- How to get "practical" experience
- What skills do I need to be prepared now and for the future?
- How do I relate to various levels of organizations, especially executive management?
II. Future Trends
- What is OD? Definition. How to describe it to myself?
- How to become "engaged" in the development of our field and its values.
- "Passing of the Torch"
- transformation of the field and our own career lifecycle
- Trends
- Globalization
- Technology
- Diversity
III. Professional Credibility
- Bringing quality/credibility to the field
- Credibility of Self
- Issues of education, age, gender, years experience
- Marketing
- How to sell yourself, show added value, measure performance
- Specialization - How do we specialize?
- Partnerships - How do we build partnerships within the OD community?
Participation in ODNet-NPLG is open to everyone who is interested in discussing these and any other issues pertaining to professionals new to the field.
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