Organization Design Professional Development Workshop

Let's Get Organized!

A Five-day Introductory Workshop in Integrated Organization Design and Management based on principles of accountability, levels of work, and levels of human capability

Monday through Friday noon, June ??, 2009
8:00am to 5:00pm    

BMO Financial Group Institute for Learning
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Many of today's experienced RO practitioners learned the ropes by working in organizations with well-designed and executed RO projects. They benefited from committed project sponsors and champions, qualified external consultants and significant investment in RO training programs. Some companies send managers to public workshops for formal RO training when available.

There are relatively few public workshops to provide learning opportunities for those not lucky enough to be in well-designed and funded RO projects.

The GO Society is proud to present opportunities to learn from experienced ex-line managers and management consultants who have worked with global companies in implementing this well-researched system of management and organization design.

Business leaders' interest in Requisite Organization (RO) is well supported by:

  • The successful application of RO in a significant number of major organizations around the world;   Click here for a sampling of RO case studies
  • The documented personal experience of a number of reputable senior business leaders;   Click here to explore their articles and publications
  • The compelling published works of Lord Wilfred Brown, Elliott Jaques and many others;   Click here for a sampling of many important digitized RO works donated to the GO Digital Library
  • The breadth and depth of academic research validating and elaborating the 'body of knowledge' now known as RO;   Click here to peruse the academic theses & papers shared with the GO Society

Perception of wide-spread failure of current organization design and management practices causing unrealized employee productivity, significant waste, unnecessary re-work, unrealized plan objectives, poor customer relationships etc.

These outcomes often go hand-in-hand with absenteeism, internal 'silo' behaviours, adversarial working relationships, union-management conflict, work-related stress, and counter-productive bonus-chasing behavior.

Business leaders and the managers they employ occupy a world of immediate cause and effect. They may not always have the right explanation for the causes and effects, but nonetheless they make judgments every day and they enjoy or suffer the consequences of those judgments. In many cases the results can be dramatic.

An experienced manager's point-of-view (i.e. context) becomes set apart from that of non-managers through his/her feelings of accountability for the performance of others. This is the context that we must respect, engage and understand intimately in order to achieve the promise of workplace improvement and reform through RO-based initiatives.

During the past seven years, Peoplefit Australasia has developed a business and manager-centric 'Leadership Framework-based' organization reform approach that:

  • Uses a customized Leadership Framework of principles and tools for enabling managers to understand the core concepts and to apply them immediately in their business;
  • Enables CEOs and senior managers to confidently evaluate the effectiveness of their organization and its leadership (i.e. its ability to execute);
  • Enables CEOs and senior managers to initiate business-focused, Framework-based improvements and to measure the impact of those improvements;
  • Eliminates consultant-led training;
  • Leverages the line manager pool in delivering program knowledge and reform-based performance expectations.

As a further supplement to this "Introduction to Requisite Organization" workshop, we highly recommend that you visit the GO Society's  FAQ - "Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Global RO concepts & application" web-page, co-authored by workshop session leader Herb Koplowitz and Ken Craddock.

Who should attend:

  • Business Users:    Board members, CEOs, executive team members, senior HR practitioners, senior managers.
  • Academics:    Researchers and lecturers in business strategy, organization, management, business administration.
  • Consultants:    Advisors and service providers in organization and leadership development, HR systems, productivity improvement.

What you will learn:

How the legitimate wealth creating needs of business are best achieved by meeting the natural needs of employees for challenging work;
The key constructs, practices and principles of the Framework-based approach;
A process for productive workplace improvement and reform;
Fast-tracking deployment of RO-based improvement initiatives.

Let's Get Organized!
   Your Program Content & Five-Day Agenda:

Day One -

Morning
Introduction
Background and overview of Requisite Organization (RO);
Some lessons from working with Requisite Organization;
Organizational reform;
The Framework-based approach (a work in progress);
Results and experience to date.   

Afternoon
Framework Demonstration
Participants' feedback on leadership effectiveness;
The manager-employee relationship;
Key constructs and definitions;
Icons.

Day Two

Framework Demonstration (continued)
Fitting the person to the role;
Performance management;
Teamwork;
Working across the organization;
Relationship management;
Special Projects and their management.
Program Design and Implementation
Leadership assessment and the business case;
Knowledge transfer and workout.

Day Three

Framework Demonstration (continued)

Day Four

Framework Demonstration (continued)

Day Five

Framework Demonstration (continued)

 

Your Session Leaders:

Session leaders are all members of the Global Organization Design Society who volunteer their time to staff Society programs.
(Click on the Session Leader's photograph to open their detailed GO Member Profile.)

Barry Deane

Barry trained as a professional engineer and had an early career in engineering design, construction and project management. He began working in the mining with CRA of Australia in 1980 (coinciding with the beginning of Elliott Jaques work with that company). He then worked in a variety of line management and senior executive roles in engineering, marketing, business analysis, resource development studies and executive development.

Barry began consulting, providing RO-related services in 1999. Barry and Sheila Deane formed Peoplefit Australasia, in association with Glenn Mehltretter (PeopleFit USA) in 2004.

Sheila Deane

Sheila has a background in line management, human resources management and organisation development. She has worked in the mining, heavy engineering, oil and gas, retail, brewing, power generation, iron and steel and paper industries in South Africa and Australia. She has more than 15 years experience in hands on workplace use of RO principles and practices.

Sheila and Barry Deane began consulting 1999. Since then Sheila has successfully designed and delivered RO-based leadership training to practising line managers in a range of major Australian companies.

Herb Koplowitz

Herb Koplowitz helps organizations develop the structure, staffing and leadership they require to build trust and reach their strategic goals.

Herb specializes in helping employees, managers and executives learn ways of talking and thinking about organizational issues that help them find more effective solutions to their problems; he has taught leadership practices and organization design to hundreds of managers. His consulting has been grounded in Global Organization Design concepts since 1990.

Herb holds a BA in mathematics and philosophy from Cornell University, a PhD in psychology from the University of Massachusetts and registration as a psychologist in Ontario.

Ken Shepard

Ken Shepard helps organizations develop the structure, staffing and leadership they require to build trust and reach their strategic goals.

Event Time and Location:

Monday through Friday noon, June ??, 2009   8:00am to 5:00pm  with some evening assignments

BMO Financial Group Institute for Learning
3550 Pharmacy Avenue
Scarborough, Ontario Canada   M1W 3Z3
Telephone: (416) 490-4300
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Seminar Fee:

$ 3,995 CAD per person

$ 2495 CAD for not-for-profit Organizations and Academics

Your Seminar Fee includes: lodging (including previous eve.), continental breakfast, lunch, dinner and breaks

Registration:

Click Here to download the Let's Get Organized! June ??, 2009 workshop Registration Form.

Do not hesistate to call us at (416) 463-0423 if you have any further questions about this event.

Major organizations and consulting firms that provide Requisite Organization-based services

A global association of academics, managers, and consultants that focuses on spreading RO implementation practices and encouraging their use
Dr. Gerry Kraines, the firms principal, combines Harry Levinson's leadership frameworks with Elliott Jaques's Requisite Organization. He worked closely with Jaques over many years, has trained more managers in these methods than anyone else in the field, and has developed a comprehensive RO-based software for client firms.
Former RO-experienced CEO, Ron Harding, provides coaching to CEOs of start-ups and small and medium-size companies that are exploring their own use of RO concepts.  His role is limited, temporary and coordinated with the RO-based consultant working with the organization
Founded by Gillian Stamp, one of Jaques's colleagues at Brunel, the firm modified Jaques;s work-levels, developed the Career Path Appreciation method, and has grown to several hundred certified assessors in aligned consulting firms world-wide recently expanding to include organization design