The Oakwood City approach to OD focuses on practical results. So you will find us:

• Working with business leaders to define purpose, goals and priorities
• Helping to identify obstacles to progress and how these might be overcome
• Implementing people management and development initiatives for a changing workplace
• Building performance management systems that work
• Developing mechanisms for giving/receiving feedback and sharing ideas at all levels within the organisation

When colleagues come together - to build plans, to make decisions, to share experiences, to resolve disputes, group facilitation is useful.  It isn't always possible, or desirable, to use in-house resources. That's where Oakwood City expertise can be useful to you.

We have experience of working with all types of group, dealing with issues such as:

• Developing business strategy.
• Planning a new service organisation "from scratch".
• "Brainstorming" marketing plans.
• Building team consensus on work practices.
• Developing a new "communications matrix" for a business.
• Merging two or more workgroups

The Oakwood City approach is goal-directed. We find out what you want to achieve and we help you get there.

We agree objectives, establish timescales and ground rules, then facilitate the group process, using appropriate techniques drawn from our many years of experience.