Organizational Development and Effectiveness

This program is designed to bring about a systems perspective to the organization. The program focuses on developing the ability to identify business performance barriers and opportunities, determine underlying causes, focus on system impacts clarify potential consequences of various interventions and implement alternatives that provide long term benefits.

This program is best suited for Mid- Level Leaders who are directly / indirectly involved in organizational development and effectiveness initiations at their workplaces.

Program Outcomes

• Appreciate the scope and challenges of organizational development
• Describe the organizational development (OD) process and a framework for applying interventions
• Identify situations where an intervention is appropriate and what situations require a different approach
• Apply a systems framework for assessing, diagnosing and identifying appropriate organizational development interventions (including change management, coaching, communication processes, group dynamics, performance management, systems integration, and strategic goal alignment)
• Identify the need for a change management process and the key steps to support the organization in implementing change

Content

The modules that make up this program include:

• What is OD?
• OD and Organizational Strategy
• Major topics  in the OD professional today
• Systems thinking
• Process model for OD interventions
• Planned organization change efforts
• Change interventions
• Organizations as cultures
• Organization structures
• Teams and OD Practitioner