Question

1. Why is the launch phase of assessing, action planning, and implementation so important in the OD process?

Answer 1

Answer- Launch phase is the most important phase of OD that's why it is called as heart of OD. It involves in skillfully assessing what is going and what is to be done, it includes planning actions that can have meaningful changes and improvement, and it additionally involves in implementing actions that can cause a high probability of success which will make or break the OD process and can be critical to the success. Skills that are required in launch phase of the OD are must for OD practitioners. They also are invaluable to organizations facing nonstop change and are experiencing high failure rate at change, which eventually puts them a competitive disadvantage, demoralizing employees and it also makes leaders to loose their credibility. Launch phase provides skills that every organization must proficient at.