Certified Organizational Design and Manpower Planning Professional

The course answers one simple question; “What is the best way to help organize and assist a group of professionals focus on achieving a collective objective?” hence the course aims at enabling its participants to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their organizational structure in compliance with strategic objectives, environmental complexity, and workforce availability and readiness to perform.

Moreover, organizational design is perceived and should be a collective responsibility whereby Human Resources professionals would facilitate and guide the process. Taking this into consideration, the course will provide a toolkit that would enable HR staff to facilitate and guide the process in a systematic manner. The tool kit includes all needed resources; from reflection/brainstorming charts that are used at the analysis stage to design templates and ending up with working sessions’ agendas and facilitation guide.  In other words, the course considers and favors the functional needs of its participants and considers their ability to implement.

The course briefly reflects on the history and evolution of organizational design. It then dives into a functional operational approach to design or redesign the organizational structure of organizations. Moreover, the course includes skill building sessions on how to redefine jobs and eventually revaluate those as affected by any design initiatives. An innovative toolkit approach will be adopted enabling participants to immediately implement what they have learned. 

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Differentiate between common organizational structure archetypes and realize the impact of each on individual and organizational performance
• Analyze organizational design elements to include but not limited to strategic goals, scope of operation, governance, competence and span of control.
• Co-design or redesign organizational structure using a comprehensive toolkit.
• Improve organizational readiness level to change through the identification enablers such incentive schemes or operating mechanism.
• Apply workforce planning methods to define workforce gaps on departmental and organizational levels.
• Learn about and acquire HR skills needed for an organizational design professional such as job evaluation and job description writing. 

The course is designed for Human Resources professional, HR business partners and HR planning staff that are directly involved in planning or overseeing the processes of organization design. 

• Organizational Design
• Workforce Planning
• Job Evaluation
• Job Description Writing
• Compensation and Benefits
• Learning and Development