Effective Business Partnering

Empower practitioners at all levels with the necessary skills to assert themselves more confidently and efficiently in their internal consulting roles.

• Liberating structures
• Group Work
• Practical sessions
• Effective Business Partnering Methodologies
• Managing and making sense of organisational issues using the SCN
• Responding to organisational issues through the E&A landscape
• Enneagram

Ensure that you and/or your unit is taken seriously by your company by having the necessary skills to assert yourself like an external consultant. Get better results internally by learning how to influence colleagues and decision makers more effectively. Learn how to grasp OD issues like a seasoned consultant.  Learn to use innovative tools like the Starfish Change Navigator to position and understand issues more effectively. Learn how to partner and collaborate better to get results like an external consultant.

• Manage expectations and boundaries
• Build a space of interdependence with your stakeholders to increase enrollment and authentic engagement
• Explore and apply the stages of the internal consulting process and internalise the key success factors for each
• Contribute to the building of a community of internal consultants, and to building a constructive culture of partnership and collaboration
• Understand your role as and effective business partner to internal and external clients
• Understand the context and complexity of internal consulting so that organisations can be effective, in a healthy way
• Expand your self-awareness as a meta skill for effective consulting
• Leverage your internal consulting role and increase your influence as a partner to your client

3-days or 24-hours

SESSION 3

Consulting Lab 4 – Build your scenario and real play.  Ramp up the learning.  Dealing with resistance. Consulting Lab 5 – Real play the next step of the scenario.  Consolidate key learnings.  Continue your learning – development plan Information session – post workshop assignment and exam.

Assessment is an integral component contributing to the success of this module. Participants will be required to participate in a variety of assessment activities that include but are not limited to assignments, action learning projects, case studies and examinations.

The WorldsView™ Academy Learning Process underlies all WorldsView™ programmes and is informed by progressive research about learning in contemporary environments. Our learning process consists of four learning channels:

• E-Learning platform that provides both a base for becoming familiar with  the field of each programme, as well as a space for ongoing exploration;
• A Classroom engagement where our faculty facilitate rich conversations  and learning experiences to deepen understanding of the field;
• A Workplace Application, often in the form of a workplace project, to   root learning in the actual work experience of learners and to ensure practical relevance and embodied understanding;
• and an Assignment/Evaluation, usually a portfolio of evidence combined with an examination, to confirm learning and conform to external examination board requirements, e.g. the Council on Higher Education, to formalise qualification.

Only highly qualified and experienced organisation development practitioners are appointed as Faculty in WorldsView Academy. Faculty members are selected in accordance with the specific module criteria as approved by the Academic Board. The requirements for the appointment of Faculty include relevant academic qualifications, experience in developing organisations and facilitation or lecturing experience.

A quality education programme begins with the development of quality modules and courses. World-class design and development standards are deeply entrenched in every programme module, setting WorldsView Academy apart from other educational programmes. Our design and development policies, frameworks and principles guarantee robust processes in the development of learning programmes and material.

These include:

• Highly qualified and experienced development Faculty.
• A robust development process.
• Numerous Academic Board and peer reviews.
• Integrated Learning.
• Core themes and philosophies that underpin all modules, ensuring learning coherence.

Internal and external consultants, business partners, management consultants, managers, HR practitioners and Organisation Development practitioners, change practitioners and organisational and community leaders. Anyone who leads and/or influences individuals, teams, groups or organisations, who want to empower themselves or their team with crucial consulting skills.

•  NQF level 7 or equivalent
•  Age exemption (23 years or older)
•  English at NQF level 6 or equivalent