Introduction

Organizational development (OD) is an effort to increase an organization’s effectiveness and viability and can involve the whole organization. Organisational development (OD) can be used as a proactive, continuous approach to facilitate better business performance. It can create a culture shift, reducing staff turnover and making an organisation more productive – for short term performance improvement and long term capability development. Despite this many organisations are not currently utilising an integrated OD approach, and HR professionals and others working with OD often struggle to articulate exactly what OD is and the value it offers.

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.

Through theory, practical examples and discussion this five-day course will cover:

• 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.

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.