Course Methodology
This course will provide you with the latest best-practice advanced organizational design tools and techniques and you will have the opportunity to discuss and test various ideas and approaches to establish what you find most helpful and useful. Graham will share his knowledge and vast experience as an organizational design consultant and practitioner and how he has overcome the very many challenges that typically arise in re-design projects.
There will also be time set aside on each day for open Question & Answer sessions. Given the complexity of this topic, pre-reading and additional reading material will be provided before and throughout the course to help equip learners to prepare, understand, reflect, cement and build on their learning. It is important that participants commit to the pre-reading and pre-work and make time to reflect and build on their learning between sessions.
Learning Outcomes
- Increase your organization’s business performance and senior team’s effectiveness by aligning your organization’s structure, roles and responsibilities, key performance indicators and governance arrangements with your strategic objectives.
- Increase your organization’s business performance and senior team’s effectiveness by clarifying how your organization is designed and the interrelationships between the various operating and support units in your organization.
- Enhance your reputation and influence by understanding the key steps, tools and techniques to effectively facilitate the co-design of your organization with your senior colleagues – and improve their understanding, ownership, confidence and motivation for your new design.
- Discover the relationship between organizational design, organizational development and operating models.
- Discover what it really means and takes to be an ‘agile’ organization.
- Network with your fellow course delegates and course tutor to discuss practical issues relating to organizational design and develop insights, tools and solutions that will help you in your workplace.
Master Introduction
With most markets in the region gearing up for progression through digitisation, innovation and talent development, following a period of difficult and changing external environment, it is more important than ever that your organizational design helps your business to deliver on its strategic priorities. Strategic organizational design is focused on aligning your organization’s structure; roles and responsibilities; Key Performance Indicators; governance arrangements; policies, processes and procedures; and infrastructure with your strategic objectives and plans. Organizational redesign is a big undertaking and poses significant risk to your organization: not only must you get the design right, but you also need to bring clarity to your new design – or risk ambiguity, confusion, frustration and ineffective team working and decision making.
This masterclass will provide an overview of the latest thinking on organizational design and the key phases and steps needed to effectively deliver an organizational design project. This course will focus on the latest advanced best-practice tools and techniques for managing a strategic redesign. Emphasis will be given to the Assessment and Design phases. Understanding what you require from your new design and how to get your design principles right. And show you how to make sure you choose the optimal design for your organization and how to build, test, clarify, refine and define your new design.
Finally, this course will cover the Construct, Implement, Operate & Review phases and the key steps and tools needed to deliver and embed your new design and its expected benefits. This course will be highly interactive with plenary and group discussions and exercises; and time set aside for Questions & Answers and review to help you achieve your learning objectives.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for everyone who requires an in-depth advanced knowledge of strategic organizational design, including: senior HR professionals (e.g., HR Directors, Strategic HR Business Partners, Heads of Organizational Design & Development); other C-suite roles (e.g., CEO, Chief Operating Officers, Corporate Services Directors); and Organizational Design Consultants.
Participants should already have practical knowledge and working experience of the main fundamentals of organizational design projects – including: SWOT & PESTELE Analysis; Design Principles; Design Options; RACI; HR Legislation; Migration Planning and Managing Change.