Overview
Organisational Development (OD) is a field of work that focuses on improving the performance and effectiveness of organisations, especially around change.
An important part of OD practice is to continuously enhance your knowledge and understanding of how you support change transformation.
Through this programme, you’ll be able to reflect on your role and journey as an OD practitioner and identify areas where you can have greater impact and influence in your work.
Participating will help you in developing the ability to build effective relationships and gain insight into your own values and strengths in OD in order to work productively with teams and organisations.
Who is this course for?
Your position or job role is:
- Has an OD responsibility
- You work within HR, People, Culture or Change
- A Director or similar senior role within a smaller organisation or charity
- A Leadership position
- Looking to move into an OD role.
Your experience:
- Background in HR
- You work within an Organisational Development role but do not have any formal training
- An interest in the people side of organisational life and change
You’re wanting to:
- Consolidate your knowledge and understanding of OD as a field of practice
- Facilitate culture, transition and development for people
- Understand your role as an OD practitioner
- Review what you’re currently doing and how you can have more impact and influence in your work
- Build relationships with your peers and colleagues that enable you to appreciate what is the core of OD in yourself
Benefits
- It’s about you. The role you play. The conversations you have, work you do and impact you make
- Our dialogic social approach will inform and help to develop the skills to deliver OD in your own context
- Build relationships and develop your network through engaging and interacting with professionals and similar roles and aspirations
As a result of this course, your OD practitioners will have a greater ability to build sustainable, effective and value-driven relationships, whatever their professional context. They will do this through their skilled, knowledgeable and impactful OD practice.
Your practitioners will deepen their impact and influence and develop their knowledge and application in a variety of interventions. This includes, how effectively they respond to and work through change, develop a sustainable organisational culture, improve levels of communication between stakeholders as well as improve their ability to recognise and facilitate group dynamics.
Course Outline
The face-to-face course is made up of three modules of two days each and the virtual course is three modules of 4-half day sessions each. These cover the skills and knowledge you require to enhance your OD practice.
You then return to your workplace to select a project or area of work to apply your learning.
Within each module, you participate in an Action Learning Set to share progress and receive peer support and challenge on this application.
The course concludes with an individual presentation. This is a space to reflect on and share your key learnings, how they apply to your work and your future intentions.
Venue for Face-to-Face Courses
Roffey Park Institute in the UK
Our venue, set in the idyllic Sussex countryside, is a welcome contrast to the sometimes-intense workplace. This environment enables teams and individuals to develop as people and professionals.
Dates
All virtual half-day sessions start at 09:00 UK time
Launch Call
21 January 2025 (Virtual)
Arrival & check in
27 January 2025
Module One
28 January2025
29 January 2025
Action learning set
30 January 2025 (Virtual)
Arrival & check in
2 March 2025
Module Two
3 March 2025
4 March 2025
Denison Organisational Culture Session
6 March 2025 (Optional)
Arrival & check in
7 April 2025
Module Three
8 April 2025
9 April 2025
Action learning set
10 April 2025 (Virtual)
Arrival & check in
28 April 2025
Presentations
29 April 2025
Launch Call
29 April 2025
Module One
13 May 2025
Module One
14 May 2025
Module One
15 May 2025
Action learning set
16 May 2025
Module Two
10 June 2025
Module Two
11 June 2025
Module Two
12 June 2025
Action Learning Set
13 June 2025
Module Three
8 July 2025
Module Three
9 July 2025
Module Three
10 July 2025
Action learning set
11 July 2025
Presentations
29 July 2025
Presentations
30 July 2025
Launch Call
22 July 2025 (Virtual)
Arrival & check in
28 July 2025
Module One
29 July 2025
30 July 2025
Action learning set
31 July 2025 (Virtual)
Arrival & check in
1 September 2025
Module Two
2 September 2025
3 September 2025
Action Learning Set
4 September 2025 (Virtual)
Arrival & check in
6 October 2025
Module Three
7 October 2025
8 October 2025
Action learning set
9 October 2025 (Virtual)
Arrival & check in
20 October 2025
Presentations
21 October 2025
Fees
Face-to-Face
Your face-to-face Horsham experience starts the evening before your programme as you join your fellow participants for dinner so you can get to know each other. Check-in is available from 2pm, providing you with the option to either work from our venue or take advantage of our leisure facilities. Our bar opens at 6pm and dinner is served in the restaurant at 7.30pm. Accommodation, meals and materials are all included in the fees.
Virtual
Technology was once used to facilitate the virtual delivery of our open programmes. Now, technology is used to enhance your learning journey. Through our progressive learning experience programme, MyRoffeyPark, learners have access to the tools, module materials and support whenever and wherever they require – including prework, mindtools and a platform to connect with their peers as well as their facilitators.
At Roffey Park, our purpose is to work with you to support real and sustainable growth; this is not limited solely to face-to-face but through virtual learning, development and consultancy also.
€4560*
*The price excludes VAT.
We offer a limited number of discounted places to registered charities.
Please contact our client services to find out more.
We can also deliver The Organisational Development Practitioners Programme as either an in-house programme for teams or as part of a wider, tailored development programme. For more information please contact us.
Denison Organisational Culture Survey Certification
As part of this programme, you have the option to complete Part 1 of the certification process to use the Denison Organisational Culture Survey. This comes with one free culture survey that can be sent to up to one hundred participants. You can use this survey in your work context or with a client organisation to diagnose and apply your learning. Full certification (part 2) can be obtained by completing the culture survey and working with a senior consultant to overview the real client results as preparation for your first client debrief.