CIPD Level 7 Advanced Award in Organisation Design and Development

This unique qualification is designed to address the need for organisation development and design capability among HR professionals, L&D specialists, internal and external HR consultants and OD specialists working within the HR function. By providing both a theoretical understanding of organisation development and design issues, together with practical knowledge and skills, the qualification will help you gain the competence and confidence to deliver immediate, tangible results to your organisation.

Module 1

Organisation Development for HR Leaders (two-day face-to-face workshop)

There’s an increasing need for organisations to respond and adapt to globalisation; as well as technology, virtual working and competition, with an emphasis on more flexible working practices, partnerships and networks. The Organisation Development for HR Leaders workshop gives you an opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills to use OD interventions to diagnose, plan, change and develop your organisation for sustainable performance. By the end of this workshop, you’ll understand the relationship between strategic HR, HR business partners and OD practitioners, and the value each contributes to your organisation.

The interactive group discussions and exercises will help you to assess your own organisation’s implementation of strategic HR and OD. You’ll also recognise, and influence, underlying dynamics and strategic decisions and activities, and respond to chaotic and complex situations. The Organisation Development for HR Leaders workshop will cover the following:

• HR strategy, HR business partner and OD
• Organisational models as a roadmap to diagnosis and interventions
• Exploring the systemic balancing of the various organisational elements
• Working to ensure interventions impact the root causes
• The Consequence Model ™, Interventions ‘toolkit’
• Building your capacity – becoming a compelling leader and practitioner
• Application - simulating the world of work. CIPD online change management tool Complete exercise and submit via our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Online discussion thread

CIPD online change management tool

Complete exercise and submit via our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

Online discussion thread

Actively participate in the discussion on ‘Organisational Culture’.

Module 2

Organisation Design (two-day face-to-face workshop)

Advancing technologies, cost pressures, changing customer requirements and different employee expectations are some of the things organizations have to grapple with as they re-organize to meet competitor and market challenges. If you’re faced with the challenge of reorganising, restructuring, or changing other aspects of your organisation, the Organisation Design workshop you gives you straightforward frameworks and practical tools to design an effective organisational infrastructure. The programme starts with assessing the work that needs to be done to meet the business purpose and then shows you how to design an optimal structures. Consideration is given to the factors that are impacting organisation designs and business models including: behavioural economics, social media, community building as we move to mobile, remote, and virtual working, trends in office space design aimed at both saving on real estate and energy costs and improving worker health, productivity, and morale, and the acceleration of new types of technology and the potential this has for disrupting the way we do things in organizations.

Through this course module, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to tackle organisation design projects, sequence and approach the design effectively and use various tools and techniques to make good organisation design decisions. Through action planning, case studies and group discussions, you’ll gain the ability to control the consequences and risks of design changes; and you’ll recognise and address design project blockers and challenges.

The Organisation Design workshop will cover:

• Choosing an organisation design model and approach
• Making the case for organisation design
• Relating structural choices to business strategy
• Sequencing the work
• Agreeing the programme governance
• Deciding the role of HR in organisation design
• Surfacing the risks in the organisation design project
• Involving leaders and other stakeholders

Measuring progress during and after the design work.

You’ll find this qualification is relevant to all HR professionals, learning and development specialists, internal and external HR consultants, and OD specialists who work with HR. Typically you will have a degree-level qualification and/or relevant work experience.

This qualification is also can also be achieved via our fast-track, intensive one-week programme, designed for those who wish to complete the qualification in a shorter period of time.