Course description
In today’s fast-paced, ever-changing business environment, an organisation’s ability to respond is key to survival and success. It is not the ‘organisation’ however that decides when, why or how to respond, it’s the people within it. Organisation Development (OD) is rooted in the deep connection between the best business processes and structures and the people working with them.
Practising OD means balancing economic growth and impact with human systems perspectives, building an agile, resilient and emotionally intelligent workforce, promoting compassionate, ethical and sustainable leadership and organisational practices, and having a clear sense of purpose. It is concerned with creating great organisations and cultures!
Our OD Practitioner Programme is designed to increase your knowledge and understanding of OD as a discipline, give you opportunities to develop skills and acquire tools that have practical application and to develop the thinking strategies that shape the kind of tools and approaches you may use in your organisation. The course explores the dynamic between the practitioner and the wider organisation and system in OD practice.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
This Advanced Organizational Development (OD) Practitioners Programme course is for you if
- You are working in the field of organisational development and want to develop and enhance your practice.
- You’re a change agent, manager or leader who recognises the importance of bringing people with you but want to have a greater insight into how to achieve this.
- You have a background in HR, an aspiring HR Director perhaps, or are a Learning and Development professional or similar who wants to have more of an OD lens and add OD skills to your portfolio
- You’re involved in local authority or public sector transformations which require changes in mindset as well as structures and services
- You’re in the commercial sector and have been recognised as having OD ability
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of Advanced Organizational Development (OD) Practitioners Programme , you will :
- Increase your capabilities as an OD practitioner for the benefit of you and your organisation
- Increase your impact and influence and develop knowledge and application of a variety of interventions
- Improve your ability to recognise and facilitate group dynamics
- Build your confidence and impact as an OD Practitioner
- Grow your network of like-minded OD Practitioners in parallel roles across sectors
Training Course Content
Day 1
Demystifying the Organisation
- What is OD and What value does it add?
- Demystifying the organisation and working with organisational models
- Looking at the organisation as a whole and ‘thinking in layers’
- The OD Mindset: thinking systemically
- Making sense of OD interventions
Day 2
Seeing the System
- Diagnostic vs dialogic approaches,
- Problems as patterns,
- levers for change
Day 3
Intervening in Complexity
- Presence
- Personal resourcefulness and power
- Dialogue and group process consulting skills
- Human Systems Dynamics
Day 4
Culture
- Understanding organisational culture and dominant mental maps
- Adaptive challenges
- Planned and emergent change
- Working through case study examples
Day 5
Organisational Design
- Traditional and contemporary approaches
- Relationship between organisation development and organisation design
- Organisation design models
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