Transforming the Organisation

Delegates are welcome to attend individual days - save nearly £100 by booking both dates

Day One

While many HR functions have improved the management and development of their talent, organisational design often receives less attention. Academics including Dave Ulrich and Ed Lawler have recently suggested that HR may be placing too much emphasis on talent management at the expense ensuring talent is working in an effective organisation.

Many organisations are now starting to realise that efforts to improve the capability and engagement of their talent will have limited impact unless the organisational context provides talent with the opportunity to contribute towards business objectives and to use their potential.

During the first day's workshop, we will review the techniques, tools and experiences for:

• Developing appropriate and effective organisation structures,
• Designing business processes,
• Managing culture change
• Leveraging organisational knowledge

This is all to ensure that organisations give business leaders the best possible opportunity to implement their strategies and also provide a conducive environment for employees and teams to maximise their contribution.

This workshop will also consider how each area of organisation design is currently being influenced by changes in the business environment, workforce requirements and other factors - as well as how these are to affect organisations in the future.

Day Two

Many organisations are struggling to deal with deep, systemic issues that stop people from working effectively – individually and together.

Typical issues for many organisations include improving performance rather than just optimising their performance management process: increasing passion and pride rather than just superficial engagement and ensuring that teams are working together internally and collaborating effectively with other teams.

All of these and other issues require sound organisation development approaches in order to be resolved.

 
During the second day's workshop, we will review techniques, tools and experiences for:

• Developing appropriate and effective organisational environments,
• Creating dynamic teams
• Enabling social networks as well as managing culture change...

• VP, director or manager of HR, learning or organisation development
• HR business partner or HR team member, wanting to contribute more broadly to organisational effectiveness
• Business leader with responsibility for the effectiveness of your own organisation