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Prepare for Organisational Development

These programs are research-based, results-driven, and people-friendly

Duration: Flexible - comprises 6 workshop sessions at a negotiated interval, plus ‘implementation’ or ‘application’ projects.

What this Organisational Development program is about

Success of any program that is expected to change what an organisation does, or how it does things, will depend to a large extent on the level of readiness of its members for such changes, and the skill with which the changes are introduced.

This organisational development program is about preparing the organisation for change by shaping attitudes about change. The outcome for this program is therefore a new state of readiness for organisational change. It achieves this by introducing topics that concern organisational change, allowing members to explore the organisation and understand the need for change, and begin to understand how to do it so it will ‘stick’.

Research-based: the program is based on the latest research regarding preparation for success of organisational development.

Results-driven: this is a practical program that helps identify specific obstacles to organisational development and provides opportunities to develop and implement action plans

People-friendly: the approach recognises that preparation of an organisation for development is largely about ‘people preparation’ - helping them understand ‘why develop’. .

Who will benefit from this Organisational Development preparation program?

For organisations intending change, all decision-makers and ‘managers of people’ will benefit from this program. For large organisations the program includes skills-development of internal facilitators who can speed the rate of transmission throughout the organisation, and apply it to ‘induction’ programs. It is quite essential that the first group to undertake the program is the executive decision team whose decisions regarding organisational purpose and goals will guide subsequent groups.

Objectives of the organisation development preparation program

At the end of the program, delegates will be able to clearly define organisational purpose and goals for a variety of audiences, better align strategies with purpose and goals, better understand resource allocation, better assess organisational capabilities and organisational capacities and associated wastage, better plan resource distribution (capabilities and capacities) to meet current obligations - strategic and otherwise.

Key topics of this preparation program

The first step in this program is to identify, agree on, and clarify the purpose of the organisation. This simple exercise instantly exposes gaps in what and how, thereby identifying various needs for change, and what to do. The how to change is introduced subtly during the processes of the program itself because it triggers changes along the way - changes that can be reviewed for process efficiency and outcome effectiveness. This program reinforces the need to push the strategic focus of all members back onto the purpose of the organisation - with each and every decision and activity - at every level of the organisation.

Organisational purpose -->	Clarify the purpose(s) of the organisation - explain “Why these purposes?”
Organisational goals -->	Identify - explain how these goals are intended to support the purpose(s)
Organisational strategies -->	Identify and describe - including how these strategies are supposed to support the goals
Organisational resources - assessment -->	Identify hard and soft resources - how there are interacting versus how they should be interacting. Consider Resource Planning versus Project Planning.
Capabilities / capacities - assessment -->	Identify and describe capabilities and capacities - list them - identify key gaps - explain the need for filling key gaps (costs of doing - costs of not doing - in terms that suit each stakeholder group)
Planning resources, capabilities, & capacities -->	Plan resource development and management - explain the program to stakeholder groups in terms relevant to each group..

The extra mile

Our aim is to combine sound research and practical experience with application in your organisation to ensure that the learning is transferred to real situations and used by the participants. As part of this program, our facilitators follow up with your delegates at agreed times to support, encourage and measure their skill development and application.