Laying the foundations for a better way of working with organisations.

• An introduction to the core concepts of organisation development (OD)
• OD code and foundations
• OD models and frameworks
• Accelerate the effectiveness of your organisation, in a healthy way

• Apply OD principles and processes in the workplace 
• Gather and interpret data to target interventions 
• Design and deploy powerful interventions

With Starfish Change Navigator© you will be able to:

• Manage your OD issues and interventions in an interactive online tool
• Navigate the complexity of mutiple OD phases of work
• Support sense-making and knowledge management as you manage OD interventions

Broadening and enhancing your facilitation practice

• Design facilitation processes to achieve objectives
• Practise and receive feedback on your facilitation skills
• Augment your toolkit of facilitation methodologies and techniques.

Developing yourself as an instrument for change.

• Grow your confidence in consulting and contracting with clients (internal and external).
• Increase your self-awareness as an OD practitioner.
• Develop yourself as an instrument for change.

Managing change in the big picture of organisation development.

• Select and apply appropriate change models
• Identify and respond effectively to complex changes
• Manage change in the big picture of OD

Navigating complex change in the workplace

• Engage more effectively with the business regarding change
• Apply a new-generation Change Toolkit
• Practise navigating complex change in The Change Lab

Managing organisational development and change projects resourcefully.

• Manage multiple OD projects as an integrated journey.
• Maintain engagement and energy in long-term projects.
• Apply OD-appropriate project management tools

Translating business strategy into organisation development requirements.

• Design and facilitate strategic planning processes.
• Apply different strategy approaches for your organisational context.
• Translate business strategy into OD requirements

Catalyze the long-term development of leaders.

• Grow organisational leadereship capability across organisational levels.
• Create catalytic space for leadership to unpack, align and lead key strategic changes.
• Enhance alignment and cohesion in your leadership teams.

• Understand a range of formal and informal communication patterns in organisations
• Move from ‘buy-in’ to deeper levels of engagement through communication
• Explore cutting-edge OD communication strategies

• Support teams in moving to purposeful, coherent performance.
• Empower the team to address team process and relationship issues.
• Facilitate team visioning, execution strategies and team learning.

Linking organisation development activities to hard financial results

• Understand how your organisation creates value (profit, cost and quality issues).
• Link OD initiatives to the bottom line.
• Speak business language to engage effectively with line management.

Ignite the leader in each person

• Ignite energy and engagement for personal leadership challenges.
• Accelerate your personal development journey through reflection.
• Reconnect with your core work, community and passion as a leader.

Leveraging teams in organisations for maximum performance and effectiveness

• Analyse team challenges in the broader OD context.
• Find leverage points to accelerate team performance.
• Apply a team development model and process.

Certificate programme encompassing the complete OD practitioner's requisite skills and competencies, enabling you to consult on and support change processes within organisations.

• Learn a step-by-step participatory organisation design process.
• Work in teams to apply this process to a simulated real-world, complex business scenario.
• Gain insight into how to solve your own organisational challenges through organisation design solutions.

• Negotiate more effective and enduring working agreements with your clients through effective contracting from the start.
• Develop your commitment from your internal clients.
• Assertively express your needs for a successful partnership with the client.