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Why Enrol?
This highly practical, in-depth Programme has been designed to equip Leaders and Change Professionals to enhance their skills, knowledge and practice, in their quest to effectively deliver the organisation’s goals, strategy and value to its customers
Organisational Development
- Adapt to the increasing pace of change and dealing with complex problems
- Assess and develop the health and effectiveness of the organisation
- Integrate and align people and organisational resources to more effectively deliver the organisation objectives
Influencing Persuading & Facilitating
- Develop the capacity to view and understand organisations as systems
- Learn practical skills to establish productive relationships with clients and work groups, through experimenting with the application of module learning, to real work situations
- Learn why, when and how to intervene at different levels of system
- Increase ability to use one’s self-as-an-instrument for intervention
- Expand skills in specialised OD areas via powerful experiential learning
Embodied Learning
- Build sustainable capacity to further our goals
- Remain embodied and connected under pressure will enable you to be more inspiring as a Leader and impactful as a Practitioner
- Demonstrate embodiment, to ensure our action consistently reflect our values and commitment, especially when under pressure
- Embody our leadership, by securing alignment between our vision and declaration, with our daily practices
- Being able to drive transformational change through embodying our ability to stay centered and present, as it helps us to shift to a more creative, compassionate and skilful state
Right Data
- Gain an understanding of how data-driven models can improve our ability to make decisions in a fast-paced and uncertain world
- More fully understand the drivers and manifestations of a situation, to more effectively improve results
- Learn to assess the reliability of data, extract strategic business insights, and to predict future trends
- Develop and defend evidence-based insights, recommendation, and decisions, as well as more clearly communicating these insights to all stakeholders
Syllabus
The OD Territory & Context
Confirming the foundation upon which we build our OD and Leadership Practice:
- Reviewing the foundational principles of OD, how and why they have evolved over time, and how they continue to influence current OD theories and methods
- Exploring the underlying assumptions of the Organisation Development (OD) Practice, to promotes organisation health and effectiveness
- Mapping the Tools, Theories and Frameworks that underpin our OD Thinking and Practice
Developing the ‘Self-As-Instrument’ through Embodied Learning
A practical introduction into Embodied Learning language, principles and practices, to recognise patterns that arise in intense or pressured situations
- Understanding the Philosophies behind the Work and Steps beyond Cognitive Learning, including; Somatics, Integral Life Practice, Linguistics and Ontology, etc.
- Undertaking Practices to enable Embodied Coordination, Action and Presence in the World
- Working directly with the body as a straightforward way to accessing a more skilful, effective and compassionate responses to stress and pressure
- Building capacity to stay centered when fully-faced and present with someone else
- Recognising and practicing shifting from reactive reflexes (autopilot), to more responsive choices (The body always wins – Irrespective of how smart a person is, if they get triggered, they react)
- Embodied Learning will include tools and methodologies to:
- Retain and utilise knowledge not only from a cognitive understand but from a felt experience therefore being able to take new action
- Embodied Learning helps us cultivate more wisdom, compassion and harmony, not only in ourselves, but in our relationships with others
- Manage the volume and complexity of our commitments
- Being open and inclusive, especially in difficult situations
- Enhance our leadership presence and catalyse our followership
- Focus all our talents into purposeful action and create the capacity to produce event more valuable results
- Increase our self-confidence in new areas, so as to find ourselves experiencing greater endurance, strength, flexibility and agility
- Identify the constrictions that limit our actions and possibilities by shifting negative and ineffective moods, and utilising a somatic sensibility in our life and work
- Listen to what is being said, without taking things personally, and speaking up for what we believe in, even when there is strong resistance
- Accelerate our career trajectory
Influencing, Persuading & Facilitating
Providing opportunities to explore the roles and tasks of OD Practitioners and Leaders, in their various settings
- Exploring relevant theoretical frameworks to enable us to understand our experiences and thereby inform our interventions
- Collaborating with tutors and participants, in real-time situations, to craft the learning environment and content, as a way to understand the typical challenges encounters in working within organisation change
- Giving and receiving feedback, recommendations and challenges in a way that creates connection with others and not defensiveness in them or ourselves, whilst working on persistent issues
- Working with unconscious and hidden dynamics, to increase effective levels of collaboration (collective, partners), cooperation (helpful and willing), and coordination (synchronised, directed and aligned)
- Developing the capacity for greater reflection to identify behavioural and emotional experiences (in both ourselves and others), to realise their powerful effects, how individuals and teams’ communicate and behave within the organisation, in ways that help or hinder the work of the organisation
How can the Right Data drive Decisions and Transformation to Enable Organisational Effectiveness?
OD has been guided by the maxim, no data without action, no action without data:
- Exploring beyond Data Collection to Data Analytics, Verification, and the fulfilment of ‘Declarations’
- Exploring the LCC Four-Step Data Analysis and Verification Framework
- Systems Thinking is a powerful approach for understanding the nature of why situations are the way they are, and how to go about improving results
- Developing and Practicing the tools, techniques and skills required to analyse, interpret and communicate data with confidence and impact within our organisations
- Interpreting multiple sources of data (gaining invaluable insights that inform business strategy and identify future), to develop, make and defend critical decisions, using the results of our data
Who Should Attend?
The OD Mastery Programme has been designed for professionals, who are accountable for leading, managing and changing their organisation, its processes, systems, ways-of-working, workforce approach, etc.
It is assumed that the individuals attending the programme will have worked in human systems for a number of years, and want to extend their knowledge, skills, and confidence through a challenging, integrative and supportive learning experience.
This Programme is designed for diverse, intact cohorts of colleagues, and will draw on participant’s commitment to support learning at multiple levels of a system (individual, team – or group – and whole organisation), to gain insights into the unconscious processes that affect all organisational systems.
Our commitment is to develop Practitioners, Leaders and Organisations that can successfully meet the challenge of their goals, objectives, and day-to-day reality.
This may include, but is not exclusive to:
– OD Specialists and Practitioners
– Senior HR management professionals responsible for formulating and or implementing strategy
– HR Business Partners
– Consultants and Coaches
– Seniors Leaders who are responsible for mobilising teams and delivery on strategy
– Anyone that has aspirations of becoming an HR Director
– Individuals who want to deepen their own awareness and practice – to experience themselves as a group member and facilitator, to understand their impact in and on groups
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