Adopting a holistic organizational change and development concept and approach

The Total Organization Development Outlook

The ideas, tools and solutions presented on ODSynergy.Com are influenced by the total organization development principle, or approach, which is:

for transformational organizational change and development, simultaneously create effective synergy of personal excellence among the key people in the organization and foster excellence among the integrating elements of the organizational systems.

Simply put, ensure that all key aspects of organizational systems and subsystems are in sync and in the best condition. In this way, you would be mobilizing effective functional interdependences of people's actualizing attributes and excellence of organizational systems and attributes to achieve desired results—for which you would find the total organizational development framework helpful.


As business becomes more and more a matter of defining an organization's mission and marshalling commitment to that mission—particularly in discontinuous and extenuating circumstances—so is fostering effective synergy of personal and organizational excellence for transformational organizational change, leadership, and performance.

Professionally, our forte is fostering effective synergy of people's actualizing attributes and integrating organizational facets in the process of organizational change and development for desired strategic results or competitive advantage.

We have solid expertise in the following areas of organizational development:

  • Organizational Systems Design and Effectiveness
  • Organizational Change Management
  • Building Organizational Culture
  • Building High Performing Teams
  • Leadership Training and Development
  • Training on Organizational Development
  • Performance Management Systems Review and Development
  • These areas—together with public service management, governance, service delivery and development,—are what our team, led by Dr. Oladele Akin-Ogundeji, have been consulting on for several years in Nigeria and in some parts of Africa.

    Principles act like the compass to navigate the course of an OD intervention project.

    Organization Development Principles

    For any organization development or organizational change to achieve desired results, there should be sound and clearly specified guiding rules or principles. The guiding rules or principles act like the compass to navigate the course of an organization development project, using the right framework, tools and technology.

    The Commitment Principle
    Organizational Change Management
    The commitment of stakeholders to any organizational change or transformation management effort is, perhaps, the most important factor—after a vivid understanding and focus of the strategic situation.
    Principle of Learned Core Values
    Building Organizational Culture
    To be effective, core values used in culture building posters, podcasts and other messages should be integrated with the pervading organizational life and the strategic engagements of the organization.
    Organizational Design Actualizing Principle
    Organizational Systems Design
    When actualizing human elements of your organization are effectively and strategically addressed,—your people would be positioned to sustain organizational leadership and high performance.
    Brief notes offering insights on organization development and change

    Nuggets from our Articles and Blog Posts

    Here are some brief notes from our organization development articles or blog posts offering insights on organization development and organizational change and culture. You would find them handy for organizational culture building, high-performing team building, strategic workforce planning, improving performance management systems, facilitating organization workshops, and training on organization development.

    Blog Post
    September 30, 2021

    Psychological Detachment and Strategic Focus in Turbulent Times

    • What leaders do in turbulent times speak to the quality of their leadership and the character of their teams, businesses, governments or organizations.
    • In troubled times, executive leaders—and the executive leadership—need to exercise psychological detachment and strategic focus.
    Blog Post
    August 24, 2021

    Beware of the Escalation Syndrome

    • The escalation syndrome refers to a situation where an individual or a group of individuals continue to expend much-needed resources in the hope of achieving a desired result even when the situation is dire.
    • Top executives who keep allocating resources on a failing project in the vain hope of reviving it when there is little chance of turning things around, may be exposing themselves to the escalation syndrome.