is ideal for senior managers, senior HR practitioners, OD specialists, internal change agents and consultants or just anyone who are charged with setting up or delivering Organisational Development capability through their function or role and want to explore the topic further. This one week training course will change the way your company thinks and functions!

Defining organisation development

• 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

Organisational Development concepts and processes

• Intake process
• Transactional Analysis
• Organisation Diagnosis

Choosing an organisation design model and approach

• Making the case for organisation design
• Relating structural choices to business strategy
• Surfacing the risks in the organisation design project
• Involving leaders and other stakeholders
• Measuring progress during and after the design work.

Agreeing the programme governance

• Deciding the role of HR in organisation design

Enhancing the effectiveness of training programmes

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the components of an Organisational Development process
• Review managerial motivation and barriers to support OD
• Describe the project plan design implications for OD, the stimuli that can be used to develop deeper understanding and benchmarks for the best Organisational Development practice
• Contract the types of training and knowledge management that compliment project designs
• Create a realistic and inspirational vision for the future

Identify a broad action plan focussed on areas of key development