Expected Commitment

• Organization should commit to a 1-year OD Fellowship journey
• Fellow will need to commit to 8-10 hours of engagement each week (for virtual sessions/ COP meets, connecting with the peer partner, engaging with organization spaces for OD work, designing solutions, and doing the pre and post work for the sessions).
• Supporting the external Fellow when they visit the organization – support in terms of stay, travel, food, and connecting with different members of the organization and meetings, and by providing resources and documents.

Course Details

• To support the nominated OD Fellows through this process, each internal fellow will be paired with another external fellow to work with them throughout the year.
• The Fellowship will kickstart with a 3-days in-person workshop in Bengaluru (for Organization Fellows + External Fellows)
• The year-long OD journey broadly includes:
• Self-reflection and personal leadership development;
• Building effective and collaborative relationships between the internal and external fellows
• Preparing the organization for change;
• Identifying organizational challenges and designing for them in collaboration with external fellow and other organizational team members;
• Reflecting on solutions and modifying them as per need.
• This 1-year program offers the opportunity for the internal OD Fellow to:
  • Develop capabilities to diagnose organizational issues and challenges;
  • Build capacity to design organizational structure, processes and strategies to meet organizational needs;
  • Participate in open online sessions of a ‘Community of Practice’ (CoP) on OD comprising of Fellows from current and past cohorts;
  • Participate in webinars and sessions on organizational design and development themes and questions;
  • Build strong relationships with other OD Fellows, practitioners and other members of CoP for continuous support and learning;
  • Co-create and implement along with OD fellows, intervention ideas and peer-reviewed intervention designs;
  • Have access to OD case-studies, tools, frameworks, and other materials.

  Course Facilitator

  Prof.Sujatha Rao is a Founder-Director of Viridus Social Impact Solutions. Sujatha works in the areas of education, technology, and organization development. Over the last two decades, her interest and research has been in studying how social purpose organizations can be purposefully designed in ways that empower human agency and enhance organizational impact. She has worked in and consulted widely in the areas of organizational development, leadership, executive development and in vocational and school education across private, not-for-profit and public sectors both in India and overseas. Sujatha has taught at University of Western Sydney, University of Sydney, Azim Premji University and is currently a member of the Academic Council at Indian School of Development Management (ISDM). She holds a Postgraduate degree in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations (PMIR) from XLRI Jamshedpur, and a PhD in Organization Studies from University of Sydney.

  Testimonials

  Shravan, Chief Knowledge Officer, I-Saksham Education and Learning Foundation, Bihar
  “ I eagerly waited for nearly 2-3 years before getting an opportunity to participate in OD fellowship last year. It truly has been one of the best experience I had in recent years. Beyond learning, it let me see my role from a perspective that I was missing. It gave me insights to build powerful, deeper engagements. I found the structure of having an internal and an external Fellow placed with an organization unique and effective. This gave me a co-traveller on this path, who pushed me as well as held me throughout the journey. I also sincerely believe it helped us as an organization. We were able to communicate the purpose of the Fellowship, bring people across roles to participate in generating insights, shape action plans, and lay out principles which will take us forward. I sincerely invite everyone thinking of participating in this Fellowship to apply. I will myself ensure that many of the people whom I know apply to this wonderful opportunity.”
  
  Trisha, Manager, People and Culture, Simple Education Foundation, Delhi
  ”The modules that made organization design thinking visible really helped. The fellowship has added immense value to me as an OD practitioner and facilitator. Different techniques taught during the course have enable me and made me more confident to hold spaces for people with certain objectives. I have been able to strengthen my inner work, due to all the reflection work we were encouraged to participate in. There is a renewed confidence in knowledge, tools and vision of organization design and development in the development sector due to the Fellowship. I feel what I have learnt here has advanced my career by two years for sure.”
  
  Pratik Aggarwal, Executive Director, ASTHA, New Delhi
  ”The OD Fellowship has been a kind of a mindfulness retreat for me as a leader. It has made me aware of my own biases, principles, limits and how these in turn play out in leadership roles. It also enables leaders to revisit the idea of change and delve into questions of who, what and why of change? The Fellowship gives detailed exposure to ‘tools” and practical strategies to enhance internal listening and communication in an organization. Through these tools, I initiated a space called Ek ASTHA, Anek Kahaniyan, wherein the pressure on a single person to facilitate was taken out. The group, through these tools and prompts, engaged in discussing their individual journeys, challenges and sense making of them being in an organization. In just eight months into the Fellowship, and having these conversations amongst colleagues, it was visible how a structured yet freeing way of talking and sharing does to individuals. These spaces are also an opportunity to discuss some complex issues of leadership, power structures, and conflicts in an organization. Having a space like the Fellowship, and a community where everyone is grappling with the same issues to an extent, also provides a safe space for leader to share, unlearn and imagine a new way of having joy and love in a working environment. The fellowship probably gives one the “head start” into their journey of individual well-being, collective joy of working together, and shaping organizations that are sources of energy for individuals.”