Organization Planning and Design

Wednesday and Thursdays
9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Organization Planning and Design aims to clarify misconceptions and misalignment. Attain experience-based guidance on how Organization Development (OD) can help create winning organizations, cultures, and ultimately, great employer brands. Lean towards proven practice and reality, rather than theory and concept. Create organizational plans and designs with as much rigor and discipline as business plans. Think in the realm of OD and HR.

This course is part of the Reality and Practice of OD and True Strategic HR that aims to satisfy the deep interest in (OD) and the endless quest to become strategic business partners among HR practitioners. There are fundamental misconceptions and glaring misalignments in the actual practice and understanding of OD and strategic HR, wherein business environments and organizations of today and tomorrow direly need a fully aligned and breakthrough-oriented OD and HR function to enable its business vision, strategies, and goals.

Organization Culture, Branding, and Capability
May 22, 23, & 30

After this course, you will:

1.  Capture and correct contemporary misconceptions/misalignments on OD and HR;
2.  Define OD and HR in terms of practice and business needs;
3.  Articulate the fundamental philosophies of OD in a business environment;
4.  Assess your practice in terms of the real competencies of OD and Strategic HR;
5.  Create an integrated organizational plan that aligns effectively with business plans and goals; and
6.  Design and review your organization relative to your own business direction and plans.

Defining & Demystifying OD/Strategic HR
•     Capturing and correcting misconceptions
•     Definitions and philosophies
•     Evolution and schools of thought—OD/HR
•     Pitfalls and success factors
•     Self-assessments vs. OD competencies

OD/Organization Strategy
•     Definition, key features
•     Key steps in development
•     Aligning with business strategy
•     Assessing your company’s OD strategy
•     Case studies

Organization Planning
•     Definition, key features, samples
•     Aligning vs. business plan
•     Two approaches: straight and  comprehensive
•     Partnering with senior management on organizational planning
•     Reviewing and/or building your company’s organizational plan

Organization Design
•     Definition, key philosophies
•     Understanding organizational evolution and key drivers of organization design
•     Key Elements: The Organization Design Criteria, Organization-Function-Role Charters, Competency Models
•     A new view on job design
•     Reviewing organization designs
•     Assessing your company’s organization design

Day 3: Presenting individual application projects
•     Application project
•     Critique and coaching for improvement
•     General Q&A with facilitator: Real Burning Issues
•     Summation: Best Practice in OD Strategy, Planning, and Design
•     References and Best Literature: OD Strategy, Planning, and Design

has over 28 years of experience in the field of organizational performance and productivity management, organizational strategy, organization development, employer branding, strategic human resource management, and leadership development.