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How do you move from HR into Organisation Development - and what changes when you start working less transactionally and more with the organisation as a system?
In this episode of the OrgDev Podcast, Garin Rouch and Dani Bacon are joined by David Patrick, Organisational Development Lead: Leadership and Change at Dorset Council, to explore his journey from HR into OD and what that transition has taught him about the practice of organisation development.
David began his local government career as an HR Assistant and has since worked across HR systems, employee relations, organisational change, leadership and OD. In this conversation, he reflects on how his understanding of OD has developed, what he had to let go of from more traditional HR practice, and what it takes to work effectively in a large, complex public sector organisation.
We explore what day-to-day OD work actually looks like inside local government, how a small OD team decides where to focus its energy, and how practitioners create space for thoughtful, longer-term work in environments that can feel fast-paced and reactive.
The conversation also looks at the distinctive challenges of practising OD in a political and highly governed system, including major organisational change, mergers and restructures, competing demands and the ongoing question of what an organisation really needs from its OD practitioners.
For anyone considering a move from HR into Organisation Development, already making that transition, or trying to understand what good internal OD practice looks like, this is a practical and honest conversation about building an OD career from the inside.
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