Training Workshop - Improve Organization Development & Capabilities

Learning Objective of Module " Improve Organization Development & Capabilities"

Participants will learn how organizations and teams function, learn and develop, they will gain a detailed understanding of all 15 phases and stages of development. Participants will learn how organizations and team grow and regress, and why this happens? along with related contingencies to stop regression, restart inertia and initiate a growth path in functioning, culture and performance. Participants will be provided with an advanced Model, Process and Tools researched and designed to deal with today's VUCA environment and how to build the right Capabilities to the right Level for organizations and teams to achieve their ambitions and aims. On completion participants will be able to plan and implement advanced Organization Development & Capability Building initiatives.

Time commitment to workshop

4 Hours

Materials Provided

Unitary Developmental Theory and Organization Development (Volume 2) e-book

Module hand-outs, presentations and exercises (Digital versions)

Context of this workshop

Transforming Change Management and Organization Development (CM/OD) was badly needed and is brought about by a new theory and model called Unitary Developmental Theory. Evidence of its transformative effect includes its equal validity for people, organizations, societies and economies. To put it simply, UDT details exactly how human systems learn developmentally and any model that misses any of its phases, or oversteps the level at which the system is operating is likely to fail. Traction and Sustainability of change and improvement plans and actions are what UDT fixes in CM/OD.

Concepts such as Innovation, Culture, Agility, Resilience, Linearity, Inversion, etc., as well as the optimal Level of Maturity which is called Regenerative Eco-System and the key Capabilities ( all 165 of them, including 'Digital') are modelled across the 7-Level Normative Maturity scale which is underpinned by the 15 UDT Phases and Stages. Above all, UDT clinically shows why only 30% of organizations achieve the premium returns associated with Agility.

Learning approach

• Presentation by tutor of topics, concept or information

• Tutor led discussion of topic, concept or information

• Individual and group exercises as appropriate

• Selection & definition of post class 'OD & Capability Development' individual action learning project

• Tutor support for student in-organization/team project

• Institute 'Change Capabilities' certification of student on completion of 'Change Catalyst' project if requested.

Workshop Topics (Improve OD & Capabilities)

1. Background to UDT: How organizations and Teams Learn and Develop, what stops them and why they degrade or fail?

2. The Model: Run through the phases and stages of organization & team development with reference to the Management Science, Economic and Learning theory and Psychology that underpin the UDT Model.

3. How to diagnose any organization or teams functioning level and related performance? and How to plan and action Capabilities that have sustainable traction that remediates issues and leads to growth in both functioning and performance.

4. Overview of the process for managing OD & Capability Development and the on-line assessment tools and reports.

5. The group is presented with an organization scenario, and a discussion is facilitated about using the model and tools to achieve the target aims of the scenario.

6. Exercise for participants: Plan a Development & Capability Building intervention using the UDT process and tools, then present and discuss.

7. Brief outline of the other UDT Training Modules

8. Follow-up planning re. assignment in an organization and coaching relationship