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The Centre for Organisation Development (Centre for OD) supports and assists public organisations in their pursuit of continuous improvement and sustained organisation performance, through the use of informed and planned OD interventions that address organisation-wide interests. This includes engaging, educating and equipping OD practitioners at all levels to create the capability to achieve desirable organisational outcomes or excellence.


The Centre for OD undertakes the following areas of work:

  • Engage with OD practitioners and relevant stakeholders in the public service to better understand their needs and challenges, with the aim of helping them to be more effective in discharging their roles.
  • Facilitate the development of a vibrant community of OD practitioners in the public service, with the aim of encouraging learning, knowledge transfer and professional support.
  • Enhance the competence of OD practitioners and organisational leaders by developing relevant learning curriculum and deploying appropriate learning interventions for them.
  • Improve proficiency in the use of OD tools by producing learning cases and research findings on effective OD practices and the use of OD tools.
  • Support the adoption of OD practices and tools in public organisations through the provision of advisory services, e.g. employee engagement survey, enterprise risk management, knowledge management.

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      New Insights from the Natural Sciences on OD & KM – A CSC Managing in Complexity Seminar Series – Event Learning Points
      New Insights from the Natural Sciences on OD & KM – A CSC Managing in Complexity Seminar Series – Seminar Podcast
      New Insights from the Natural Sciences on OD & KM – A CSC Managing in Complexity Seminar Series – Seminar Presentation Slides
    In this seminar, Mr Dave Snowden shared with the participants on the developments on next generational KM and the use of rituals and networking to achieve organisational and behavioural change.
      Roundtable Dialogue with Professor Adrian Furnham on Leadership Behaviours in Shaping Organisational Culture – Event Learning Points
    The Centre for OD organised a Roundtable Dialogue helmed by Professor Adrian Furnham, Professor in Psychology in the University of London on the topic of Leadership Behaviours in Shaping Organisational Culture. The Roundtable was attended by a small group of practitioners heading the OD function in various public sector agencies.
      “Creating a Positively Powerful Organisation”: A sharing on Appreciative Inquiry, the Singapore Prison Service Cluster B Experience - Event Learning Points
    At this sharing session, three different perspectives on the use of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) in the Singapore Prison Service Cluster B were presented. Commander of Cluster B, shared from a leadership perspective the anticipated challenges facing Cluster B, why AI was chosen as an approach, offered personal insights on how he convinced his officers to come onboard the AI journey and shared his reflections of the process. The external consultant engaged by Cluster B, shared the theoretical aspects of AI and how theories of AI were translated into practice in Cluster B from a consultant’s perspective. We also had an OD practitioner’s perspective on the strategy, challenges, opportunities as well as the learning points when using AI in Cluster B.
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