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Borrowing From Professional Theatre Training to Build Essential Skills in Organization Development Consultants
Leslie Stager Jacques
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, June 2013; vol. 49, 2: pp. 246-262

For discussion:

According to the article why might theatre training help to build skills in an organization development practitioner? What skills could be enhanced in this manner? How do these skills relate to the “classic” OD skills identified in the chapter?

Revisioning Organization Development: Diagnostic and Dialogic Premises and Patterns of Practice
Gervase R. Bushe and Robert J. Marshak
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, September 2009; vol. 45, 3: pp. 348-368., first published on May 15, 2009

Mind the Gap: Revisioning Organization Development as Pragmatic Reconstruction
Chris Hutton and Andreas Liefooghe
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, March 2011; vol. 47, 1: pp. 76-97.

For discussion:

These two articles outline and contrast a dialogic perspective on OD with the diagnostic approach described in chapter 5. Which resonates more with your own beliefs about change in organizations and how OD ought to be practiced?

Toward a Discourse-Centered Understanding of Organizational Change
David Grant and Robert J. Marshak
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, June 2011; vol. 47, 2: pp. 204-235

For discussion:

How does a discourse centered understanding of change differ from a systems theory understanding of change? Do you see any similarities? What implications does this have for the OD practitioner?