"Designing Organizations was a great personal and organizational learning experience. The course content and leaders are absolutely first class."
Anne Graham Ottawa, ON
With continuous change in the external environment driving continuous change within our
organizations, managers are realizing that designs based on the principles of scientific
management — with steep hierarchies, powerful centralized bureaucracies, and narrowly
defined jobs — are hopelessly outdated.
Organizational design is therefore becoming an important skill set for the OD
practitioner. Organizational design refers to the unique ways in which organizations
structure their social and task processes to achieve clearly articulated business objectives.
In Organizational Designing, participants learn key concepts and skills involved in creating
effective designs that are flexible enough to accommodate change yet fit for today.
Your Opportunity
During this three-day program you'll learn to:
Work with a client to develop the requirements for the design effort: the outcomes, boundaries, and design principles.
Build into your organization the principles of a high performance work culture: open and active communication; empowered decision making; collaborative relationships; contingent rewards.
Apply the nine tests of organizational design for a structured approach to assessment and intervention.
Look at your own organization’s design from a fresh perspective.
Who benefits?
HR and OD practitioners, team leaders, and external and internal
consultants who are involved in the analysis of organizational or divisional
structure and redesign.
Organizational benefits
By effectively transferring the lessons from this program, the sponsoring organization will see the following positive results:
Significant savings in bringing the design creation process in-house
Successful restructuring based on a proven process and rigorous tools
Structures and groupings that ensure the right work is done by the right people
Dates and Fees Spring 2008: (Four Points)June 10 - 12 - $2,950.00 - Register Fall 2008: (Donald Gordon Centre)November 11 - 13 - $2,950.00 - Register
Includes registration, tuition, lunches, some dinners and all instructional
materials.
If you register and pay two months prior to the opening date of the program,
you will receive a $150 discount. Sessions begin on the Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.and end on the Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
For information on the Organizational Development program in BANFF, go here
Four Points by Sheraton Hotel is located at 285 King Street East, in historic downtown Kingston. Hotel rooms are available to participants at a special rate until one month prior to the program. Please contact the hotel directly for rate information and to book your accommodation. Phone 1-888-478-4333 or 613-544-4434 or visit the hotel's web site at http://www.fourpointskingston.com/. <See Map for Directions...>
Donald Gordon Conference Centre is Queen's internationally renowned executive development facility. The Centre is located on 421 Union Street, between Queen’s main and west campuses. For more information on the facility, please go to: http://www.dgc.queensu.ca/. Please book your accommodations at Donald Gordon Centre directly with Claire Grazette, DGC’s Conference Planner, at 613 533 2221 ext. 3601 or by email at grazette@post.queensu.ca. <See Map for Directions...>
