Introduction:
In today’s fast-paced, ever-changing business environment, an organization’s ability to respond is key to survival and success. It is not the ‘organization’ however that decides when, why or how to respond, it’s the people within it. Organization Development (OD) is rooted in the deep connection between the best business processes and structures and the people working with them.
Practicing 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 organizational practices, and having a clear sense of purpose. It is concerned with creating great organizations and cultures!
Our OD Practitioner Program 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 organization. The course explores the dynamic between the practitioner and the wider organization and system in OD practice.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this Advanced Organizational Development (OD) Practitioners Program Course, learners will be able to do:
Increase your capabilities as an OD practitioner for the benefit of you and your organization
Increase your impact and influence and develop knowledge and application of a variety of interventions
Improve your ability to recognize 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
Who Should Attend?
This Advanced Organizational Development (OD) Practitioners Program course is for you if:
You are working in the field of organizational development and want to develop and enhance your practice.
You’re a change agent, manager or leader who recognizes 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 recognized as having OD ability
Course Outlines:
Demystifying the Organization
What is OD and What value does it add?
Demystifying the organization and working with organizational models
Looking at the organization as a whole and ‘thinking in layers’
The OD Mindset: thinking systemically
Making sense of OD interventions
Seeing the System
Diagnostic vs dialogic approaches,
Problems as patterns,
levers for change
Intervening in Complexity
Presence
Personal resourcefulness and power
Dialogue and group process consulting skills
Human Systems Dynamics
Culture
Understanding organizational culture and dominant mental maps
Adaptive challenges
Planned and emergent change
Working through case study examples
Organizational Design
Traditional and contemporary approaches
Relationship between organization development and organization design
Organization design models