Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition

PERSONAL GROWTH AND PRACTITIONER EFFECTIVENESS

The experience of becoming a more aware, better-integrated human being can be an exhilarating and, fulfilling one, and it can also lead to increasing satisfaction and effectiveness in your professional work. But it can also require hard work from you, a willingness to attend to the challenges and opportunities for learning about yourself, and, occasionally, a degree of personal courage. This is a continuing task, and an important part of one’s professional responsibility. In her conference presentation for the OD Network, for example, Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge stated that this work “necessitates a high degree of self-knowledge and personal development that must engage OD practitioners throughout their ...