Organization Design Clinic

Based on requisite organization / work levels concepts

Virtual workshop including pre-workshop e-learning and one-year of on-line supported learning

Date:  To be determined

What you will learn
Features
What’s special about this program?
Who Should Attend
The Learner’s experience
Staff
Price
Accommodation
Registration

What you will learn:

  • Basic concepts of requisite organization / work levels-based organization design and management
  • How to apply these concepts in a challenging case analysis

Features

  • A year’s access to the Society’s Learning Management System (LMS) and subscription-only learning resources.
    • Guided reading and viewing
    • E-learning modules on requisite organization concepts*
    • On-line learning forum with Senior Fellows
  • Two-day face-to-face learning environment -- hands-on workshop focused on skilled use and application.
  • Structured program to pair learners at the general management level with senior practitioners in five hours of Distance Tutoring (with the option to continue tutoring at GO Society rates)
  • Distance or on-site project support by senior practitioners at negotiated rates (optional)
  • Invitation to become a Society affiliated organization design practitioner upon successful completion of the program and recommendation by a distance tutor who has supervised your introduction of these concepts into your work or consulting practice.

* Note:  E-learning modules were contributed to the Society's professional development program by Novus International.

What’s special about this program?

  • Global Organization Design professional development offers a science-based, systems approach to designing and managing organizations where all elements are integrated and aligned.  This is in contrast to other trainings which often include weakly supported assertions of high level principles, eclectic assemblies of fragments or which are limited to participatory processes rather than to design itself.
  • It may be the world’s only public professional development program in accountability and levels-based organization design and management.
  • It’s supported by a global professional association (not-for-profit) with values of generosity and sharing rather than by a for-profit company offering proprietary materials.
  • It’s linked to an on-line Learning Management System - complete with organized learning modules, e-learning,  teleconference, and on-line forums using  reference materials donated by the society’s individual and corporate affiliates.
  • It’s staffed and supported by the Global Organization Design Society’s most senior practitioners who contribute their time as part of their citizenship commitment to the Society and the development of the field.
  • It supports pairing participants with senior practitioners for distance tutoring and project support as resources allow.

Who should attend

  • CEOs of small and medium sized businesses who want an effective short course in designing and managing their growing organizations.  These methods have been highly valued by VISTAGE, TEC groups and other CEO learning groups.
  • General managers with accountability for implementing strategy.
  • VPsHR who need to build strategic capability in their own function and then throughout the organization.  They will learn to improve the design and staffing of their own function and to manage the careers of high mode HR professionals.
  • Directors with accountability for implementing strategy or who support general managers in their organization design work.
  • Hi - potentials will gain in-depth understanding of complex organization dynamics and how to succeed in special project assignments and to better manage their rapidly developing careers.
  • Senior management consultants who want a powerful short course in organization design and management and to align themselves with a global network of senior organization design practitioners to collaborate on major projects.
  • Academics in organizational studies who wish to include these concepts in their teaching, research and consulting.

The Learner’s Experience

Preparation for Mumbai Events

Purpose:  To introduce Global Organization Design and its values, provide an overview of the program, provide grounding in the foundational concepts, meet the facilitators and other participants, share introductory questions and issues on line, and to set personal learning objectives for the program.
  • Register for the professional development program
  • Watch a short on-line video introducing the approach and program.
  • Study recommended articles and videos
  • Complete the e-learning modules
  • Participate in on-line Forum for sharing questions / insights and discussion.
  • Complete an on-line survey about your work context, issues, questions, and personal learning objectives.
  • Participate in one or more teleconferences with the workshop leaders

Mumbai Events - (Two days)

Purpose:To deepen your understanding of foundational concepts and their application, to build personal relationships with others in the learning community.  The workshop design assumes that you have completed the Novus e-learning modules and submitted your notes before you arrive and begins with practice in application.  Those who arrive without the required preparation will be assigned to a separate track to cover the basic concepts before rejoining the workshop and Symposium.

Friday, February 19th

  • Clarification of concepts from the e-learning modules
  • Current (extant) organization analysis (in the context of the case study)
    • Assessing grouping of work
    • Assessing cross-boundary issues

Saturday, February 20th

  • Developing requisite design propositions
  • Fit to role application and practice—assessing information processing capability
  • Talent Pool Management
  • Putting it on the ground—implementation and barrier management
  • Back-home planning - Orientation to on-line learning resources including being matched with a distance tutor

Post-Mumbai - Continuing Your Learning

Purpose:To support your continued learning in your areas of interest supported on-line by the Society’s Senior Fellows and others in the learning community and the Society’s extensive resource library.

  • Participants at the general management level will complete five hours of teleconference “distance tutoring” with Senior Fellow practitioners.
  • Complete additional hours of distance tutoring as desired at Society rates.
  • Continue reading, reading, and discussing-on-line Society web site materials related to your learning goals.
  • Engage a Society shadow consultant on a project that will apply Global Organization Design concepts in your organization or client organization. (if appropriate to your needs)
  • Upon successful program completion and recommendation of your distance tutor, consider accepting an invitation to sign a Society Participation Agreement to become an affiliated practitioner -- an Associate of the Society.

Professional development program staff

Herb Koplowitz, Ph.D.

Dr. Koplowitz in a founding member and Senior Fellow of the Global Organization Design Society and has played a lead role in designing and delivering the Society’s professional development programs in accountability and levels-based organization design.

He is President of Terra Firma Management Consulting.  Terra Firma helps organizations develop the structure, staffing and leadership they require to reach their strategic goals in a trust-building manner.  His consulting has been grounded in Global Organization Design concepts since 1991.  He has consulted and trained in Canada, the U.S., Jamaica, Argentina, India, Russia, Ghana and South Africa

Herb specializes in helping employees, managers and executives learn ways of talking and thinking about organizational issues that help them find more effective solutions to their problems.  He is skilled at making the concepts of Requisite Organization accessible to employees.

Herb holds a B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from Cornell University, a PhD in psychology from the University of Massachusetts and registration as a Psychologist in Ontario.

Ken Shepard, Ph.D.

Ken is conference co-chair and Senior Fellow, and Founding President of the Global Organization Design Society, a world-wide professional association of academics, business users, and consultants practicing the application of Requisite Organization concepts. He is also Chair of the Queens IRC Advisory Committee.

He was chief editor and contributing author of the book, Organization Design, Levels of Work and Human Capability: Executive Guide.

Ken held management positions in business, government, and not-for-profit sectors.

Dr. Shepard founded the management of change program at the Niagara Institute in 1981 and directed it for a decade during which he benchmarked best practices at major Canadian corporations and designed a wide-range of senior management development programs at the VP level.

As a consultant and Principal of the Canadian Centre for Leadership and Strategy for 24 years, Dr. Shepard worked with CEO's, Deputy Ministers, and seconds-in-command responsible for major change projects in Canada and abroad. Ken's practice was largely based on Requisite Organization concepts developed by Elliott Jaques complemented by state-of-the-art organization development processes.

 

Ken met Dr. Jaques in l978, brought him to Toronto in l992 and produced 3500 participant days of public workshops in Requisite Organization with Dr. Jaques introducing these concepts to senior consultants and line management.

Price

  • Single registration  $ USD
  • Three or four participants from your company - $ each
  • Five and above participants from your company - $

Includes:

  • One-year subscription to the GO Society Learning Management System with e-learning
  • Workshop fees and materials for two days
  • Continental breakfasts, Lunches, and Breaks
  • On-line teleconferences with the Society's Senior Fellows
  • For participants at the general management level -- five-hours of individual distance tutoring - by teleconference with a Society Senior Fellow.

Registration

Register here for professional development program  plus the year-long on-line learning resources.

Post-conference tour to Banff and Lake Louise - Brochure

Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

A global association of academics, managers, and consultants that focuses on spreading RO implementation practices and encouraging their use
Dr. Gerry Kraines, the firms principal, combines Harry Levinson's leadership frameworks with Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization. He worked closely with Jaques over many years, has trained more managers in these methods than anyone else in the field, and has developed a comprehensive RO-based software for client firms.
Ron Capelle is unique in his multiple professional certifications, his implementation of RO concepts through well designed organization development methods, and his research documenting the effectiveness of his firm's interventions
Former RO-experienced CEO, Ron Harding, provides coaching to CEOs of start-ups and small and medium-size companies that are exploring their own use of RO concepts.  His role is limited, temporary and coordinated with the RO-based consultant working with the organization
Founded by Gillian Stamp, one of Jaques's colleagues at Brunel, the firm modified Jaques;s work-levels, developed the Career Path Appreciation method, and has grown to several hundred certified assessors in aligned consulting firms world-wide recently expanding to include organization design
Requisite Organization International Institute distributes Elliott Jaques's books, papers, and videos and provides RO-based training to client organizations