Author: Margaret Devlin

It is no surprise that organisations are relying more heavily on consultants to complete or complement their suite of services. It makes sense at a number of levels, including improved efficiency, flexibility and economy. CfOD’s experience in consulting relationships with out clenst is that results improve dramatically when the relationship is a major focus –…

How do we lead in an increasingly complex environment? Intuitively as leaders we know solutions that have satisfied our existential problems in the past are not working anymore. How many more restructures, consultative processes, mediated discussions, leadership challenges, terror attacks, battles and wars will there be before there is a paradigm shift in our thinking?…

A lot of the work we do at the Centre for Organisation Development is with local government. It is interesting then that it has taken me so long to put my finger on what it is about local government organisations that make them different from so many other organisations. I think it is, that they…