Course description
Organizational capabilities are concerned with the ability of the organization to combine different types of resources, especially organization specific knowledge embodied in the employees, in order to create new resources that enable the organization to achieve and sustain its competitive advantage.
Organizational capabilities are viewed as a type of strategic resource since it is rare, valuable, inimitable, non-tradable, and non-substitutable..
By attending this course you will learn how to define and position the contribution of Organizational development in your organisation and articulate this in the workplace, building your own credibility.
This course gives you not only the knowledge and skills needed but also the understanding and confidence to use this, with traction, back in your organisation.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
This Building OD Capability: Strategy and Execution course is ideal for:
- HR directors and HR business partners,
- OD partners and other leaders and professionals charged with setting up or delivering organisational development capability through their function or role.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of Building OD Capability: Strategy and Execution course, you will learn :
- What Organizational development is and isn’t (with context)
- Linking strategy and execution – with a focus on tools, tactics and tips for driving value
- How Organizational development is approached in other organisations and how to use it effectively in your own organisation
- How to drive and communicate the benefits of OD within your organisation.
- Ability to position and communicate the contribution of OD to your business in a simple, commercial yet innovative way
- Understand what is needed to deliver OD successfully, at individual and functional levels, and to support functional and individual development plans
- Gain a realistic view of the challenges
- Real-life case studies and examples bring the application of OD to life; take away tools to be able to apply these lessons to your organisation
Training Course Content
Day 1
What is Organisational Development?
- What is Organizational development and Where does it come from?
- What value does it add?
- What is its relationship with HR?
- What does it look like in practice?
- 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 Organizational development interventions
- Ways of looking at and talking about Organizational development which are appropriate to your business.
Day 2
Working with Big System Organisational Models and Frameworks
- Understanding organisational models
- Review of planned and systemic organisational frameworks
- Using models to diagnose organisational health
Day 3
Key Skills Needed to Be an Organizational Development Practitioner
- Assessing the Big 4 essential personal attributes – Change Tinkerer, Systems Thinker, Business Translator and Self-Balancer
- Other skills required
- Model how capable your HR function and individuals are to deliver OD.
Day 4
Organizational Development and Business Partnering
- The role of the Organizational development practitioner (versus other HR roles)
- Reviewing typical Organizational development accountabilities
- Building credibility
- Personal and organisational challenges. Is your organisation ready for an OD partner?
Day 5
Useful Systems and Models
- A systems thinking perspective
- The concept of an organisational strategy and Organizational development plans
- Tools and approaches to help you work with and add value to the business.
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