The guiding philosophy defining all programs and operations of the OD Centre is that: there is hope for Africa through enhanced competence of its leaders and organisations. This philosophy shapes the vision, mission and goals of the OD Centre.

Mission
The OD Centre exists to provide organisational capacity development, advisory services and leadership programs that are tailored to the capacity gaps and special developmental needs of African leaders and their organisations, equipping them to leverage and harness resources for sustainable improvements in the lives of African peoples.

Goals
In pursuit of this mission the OD Centre has set itself the following goals:

• To build African Capacity in Organisation Development (OD), Leadership, Change Management and conflict transformation in organisational settings
• To train and coach OD Practitioners, Organisational Consultants and Leaders of Organisations
• To provide consulting services in OD and Advisory Practice to organisations in the public, corporate and civil society sectors in Africa
• To undertake research in OD practice in the African context
• To publish information and disseminate experiences and best practices in OD, leadership and change management
• To undertake advocacy programs that promote Organisation Development and effective Leadership
• To build and sustain a vibrant Community of Practice in OD and change management

Values and Beliefs
The OD Centre is founded and operates from an optimistic worldview, believing that leaders and their organisations as systems tend to do their best at any given time; and that given the right stimuli and motivation people can change and even excel. The centre therefore operates from the perspective of supporting growth, rather than focusing on pathology.

In addition, the OD Centre operates by giving honour and validity to every individual’s subjective experience. This provides legitimacy in honouring differences and multiple realities, serving as a basis for the development and growth of common ground in pluralistic societies today.

Self-respect and respect for other people’s opinions and humanness, coupled with curiosity in the unfamiliar, constitute basic ingredients for the non-judgemental stance with which the OD Centre relates to all persons and systems.

Services, Programmes and Workshops:
The OD Centre offers organisation capacity building and advisory practice services to organisations, networks and leaders to enhance their effectiveness. These services include:

• Organisational assessment;
• Process and system design;
• Change management;
• Conflict transformation in the organisational setting;
• Teambuilding;
• Coaching;
• Strategic thinking; and
• Developing a Business Model

In addition the OD Centre offers a modular, practice-based learning programme in Organisation Development.  The Organisation Development Practitioner Formation Programme (ODPFP) is a five-modular programme that runs over 16 months and builds competence in personal mastery, organisational leadership, change management, organisational consulting, process facilitation, moderation of multi-stakeholder dialogues and teambuilding.

The OD Centre also conducts a number of training workshops and seminars where leadership skills as well as methodologies and best practices in organisational consulting and advisory practice are presented.  The workshops and seminars include:

• Introduction to OD;
• Leadership and Succession in Organisations; 
• Teambuilding;
• Performance Management Systems;
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Conflict management in Organisational Setting
• Group Process
• Personal Growth and Personal Mastery
• Dialoguing Techniques
• Facilitation