Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
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.
Working with Big System Organisational Models and Frameworks
- Understanding organisational models
- Review of planned and systemic organisational frameworks
- Using models to diagnose organisational health
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.
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?
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.
