organizational assessment tool presented by gus medina university of wisconsin stevens point welcome
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Organizational Assessment Tool
Presented byGus MedinaUniversity of
Wisconsin Stevens Point
Welcome
OVERVIEW
IntroductionOrganizational Assessment
OATQuestions
INTRODUCTION
What is organizational assessment?
INTRODUCTION
OA is an intentional review of how an organization is functioning internally and its interaction with external stakeholders.
INTRODUCTION
Why conduct an organizational assessment?
INTRODUCTION
Determine what is working well
Determine what needs improvement
Improve effectiveness of the organization
INTRODUCTION
Make more effective use of organization members’ skills
Others?
What is the Organizational Assessment Tool (OAT)?
What is the Organizational Assessment Tool (OAT)?
It’s a one-stop organizational assessment resource that helps EE leaders review major aspects of internal organizational development.
What is the purpose of the OAT?
It promotes learning and growth within environmental education (EE) organizations.
What is the purpose of the OAT?
It provides a self-assessment tool that EE leadership can use to increase organizational effectiveness.
What is the purpose of the OAT?
It provides EE leaders with a tool to comprehensively review the major aspects of internal organizational development.
What is the purpose of the OAT?
It serves as an educational tool for individual organizational leaders and members.
Who can use the OAT?
The OAT can be used by EE practitioners to build local, state/provincial and national capacity for EE.
Who can use the OAT?
It’s designed to address the needs of EE professionals and EE organizations.
How can the OAT help individuals and organizations?
Assessment is a necessary and ongoing part of organizational development.
How can the OAT help individuals and organizations?
It provides an opportunity to identify organizational attributes which help or hinder the accomplishment of organization mission and goals.
How can the OAT help individuals and organizations?
It identifies areas of professional development and organizational leadership which, if implemented, should increase sustainability and ability to build EE capacity
How can the OAT help individuals and organizations?
It can also enhance individual leadership in the EE field and beyond.
What is in the OAT?
It distills organizational development information and applies it directly to the unique and diverse needs of the EE field and community.
What is in the OAT?
It presents the most widely used and most current information available on organizational development.
What is in the OAT?
It presents this information in an easy to understand, easy to use workbook format.
What is in the OAT?
It’s designed to be used in part or whole, whenever an individual or organization feels self-examination is needed.
What is in the OAT?
It addresses leadership throughout all major areas of the organization and concludes by identifying significant leadership attributes.
How is the OAT structured?
The OAT is divided into six major areas of organizational development.
How is the OAT structured?
1) Organizational Culture2) Team Building
How is the OAT structured?
3) The Organization Governing Structure Governance Strategic Planning
How is the OAT structured?
4) Managing Skills
5) Stakeholders-External
6) Program Evaluation
How is the OAT structured?
Each area contains six components. They are:
--Definition/description of area
How is the OAT structured?
--Assessment questions: divided into my work and our organization using a scale
(strongly disagree to strongly agree)
How is the OAT structured?
--A case study drawn from the field of EE
--Importance to the sustainability of your organization
How is the OAT structured?
--Latest trends
--Personal prioritization of needed action
How is the OAT structured?
--A final section provides a checklist of the leading attributes of effective leaders and guidelines for a personal leadership development plan.
Closer Look
Review a section of the OAT in more detail.
How can I obtain a copy of the OAT?
Order the OAT at http://www.eetap.org/
How can I obtain a copy of the OAT?
It will also soon be available online in electronic format.
Comments and Questions
What are your comments and questions about organizational assessment and the OAT?
Thank You!