Introduction to Organisational Development

Learn OD concepts to help your organisation reach its goals

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.

Explore organisational strategy and capability

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.

Discover the importance of self in OD practice

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.

This course is designed for anyone interested in learning about OD theory and practice. It will be especially useful to those not currently working in organisational development and looking to enter the field.

No specific software needed, just an interest in finding out about OD!

• What is OD?
• Introduction
• What is OD?
• Strategy, capability, evaluation
• Strategy
• Data
• OD Theory and Use of Self
• OD Theory
• Use of Self
• Reflection