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All is set for the second edition of the International Organisation Development Reflections and Conference to be held at the Golden Tulip Kumasi City from Monday, January 12 to Thursday, January 15. The conference is organized by the College for Community and Organisational Development, Ghana, in partnership with the Ghana Institute of Certified Organisational Development Practitioners and with the support of the Institute of Organisation Development, Florida, USA. The four-day conference is expected to bring together CEOs, human resource practitioners, talent management practitioners, unit managers, media practitioners, ICT managers, policy makers and other professionals from various sectors of the economy to discuss and share ideas and best practices towards a more consolidated practice of organization development efforts in Ghana, Africa and beyond. The conference being held under theme �Transforming and energizing for sustainable change: OD practice in focus�, will feature various speakers including Nancy Zentis, PhD., CEO of Institute of Organization Development (IOD), USA; Gabriel Gbiel Benarkuu, President of the College for Community and Organisational Development, Ghana; Dr. Roland Sullivan, CEO of STA, USA; and Patricia Dammann of the Institute of Organisation Development, South Florida, USA. Topics to be discussed include Facilitation Skills: The New Way Out; Whole System Transformation: The Theory and Practical Approach; Coaching Model for African Leaders; and OD Process Development: The Competencies. The conference sessions will be facilitated by Ms. Shika Acolatse, Country Director of Enablis Ghana and Dr. Joyce Aryee, former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, and the Founder and Executive Director of Salt and Light Ministries, a religious organization, whilst the opening session will be chaired by Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies, Tamale. Speaking at a pre-conference briefing meeting, Mr. Gabriel Benarkuu, President of the College for Community and Organisational Development noted that �the 2015 conference will leverage the opportunities created over the years to push the OD agenda further as organisations pool resources for higher growth�. He also called on corporate organisations to embrace OD and incorporate it into their operations to ensure organizational success. The conference is sponsored by DKM Diamond Microfinance Limited, Golden Tulip Kumasi City, Mission of Hope, GIZ and STA. Brief about OD: Organizational development (OD) has evolved over the past 60 years as an application of behavioural science knowledge and techniques to solving organizational problems. OD started in the 1940s at MIT. It was also strongly influenced by the work of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. Robert Blake and Jane Mouton are credited for the term - organizational development. Most attribute OD having evolved from two basic sources: the application of laboratory methods by the national training laboratories and the survey research methods pioneered by Kurt Lewin. Organizational Development is an applied behavioural science that is focused on the organization as a system. OD is a process used to develop healthy, high-performance, self-renewing organizations and successfully manage change and can be used at all levels of an organization. Mr. Gabriel Gbiel Benarkuu Executive Secretary, Ghana Institute of Certified OD Practitioners President, College for Community and Organisational Development www.uccod.edu.gh Cell: 0208500875