Introduction to Organisational Development

Organisational development (OD) uses behavioural science to help you implement systems and techniques aimed at affecting your organisation’s performance and culture.

On this three-week course, you’ll learn the main concepts of OD and gain the necessary skills to be able to describe the main theories and ideas of organisational development.

This course is perfect if you’re looking to move into an OD role, or you want to use organisational development techniques in your current role to improve your processes.

Organisational development works with people to change, improve, and transform aspects of the system so that they have the capability to achieve the strategy.

This course will explain what OD strategy is, and how it’s intrinsically linked to capability. As part of this, you’ll identify OD theories, models, and research to reinforce your approach to organisational development.

You’ll also look at the different types of data, both qualitative and quantitative, and how you can use data to inform your OD processes.

Alongside using the OD toolkit of techniques, methods, and tests, OD practitioners themselves need to continually change, adapt, and develop.

On this course, you’ll learn about the ‘use of self’ and why you should focus on self-knowledge and personal development to improve your organisational development work.