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Differentiation by Design: Designing for Marketplace Growth Program

AlignOrg Solutions has developed organization design skills in thousands of business leaders, and HR and Organization Design professionals. "Differentiation by Design" has been taught in many formats in numerous organizations such as GE, 3M, Honeywell, Hallmark Cards, TVNew Zealand, etc. AlignOrg Solutions adapts the content and approach to meet client needs. The course has been taught in a one day, two day, three day and even quarterly format.

Laura Byars, Director of Workforce Planning at ArvinMeritor offered this endorsement, “Our entire organization is in need of re-design and there are pockets of re-design work going on everywhere. I asked Reed Deshler from AlignOrg Solutions to come in and provide a skill building session on Organization Design for a select number of HR team members facing all of the reorganization work. We spent 2 1/2 days in training and it was one of the few time I honestly felt that I left a training experience with a strong tool kit and process that I could immediately start using.”

The common learning objectives for the course are:

Course Objectives: Participants will be able to:

  • More effectively use existing consulting skills
  • Diagnose organization situations to select proper intervention
  • Use the appropriate organization design and intervention tools
  • Integrate acquired organization for maximum marketplace effectiveness and operating efficiency
  • Increase organization design effectiveness
  • Align organization choices to marketplace strategy
  • Identify stakeholder requirements and associated design choices
  • Assist in identifying differentiating work and properly design an organization to support this
  • Understand and improve matrix organizations
  • Assist in restructuring organizations for greater competitiveness
  • Improve global organizing choices
  • Link work across organization units
  • Identify and group competencies into new roles
  • More effectively influence clients concerning organization design
  • Specific action plan to apply tools and learnings

Organization Design Tools Presented in this Workshop:

  • Organization diagnosis
  • Gap analysis
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Strategic Culture Behaviors (SCB’s)
  • Value offering
  • Differentiating activities
  • Organizing principles
  • Strategic categorization
  • Organizing rationale
  • Business model
  • Placement of work
  • Linking options
  • Organizing systems alignment and optimization
  • Process design
  • Competency grouping
  • Roles and Responsibilities (RACI)

The photos below show the binder and toolbook used in the course as well as a view of the toolbook table of contents, and example of one tool from the toolbook and the binder index. Please contact us so we can discuss your unique needs.

           

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Change and Transition Management Program

AlignOrg Solutions has developed change management skills among hundreds of business leaders, and HR and Organization Design professionals. "Change and Transition" has been taught and used as a support skill set in many of our change efforts. AlignOrg Solutions believes that organization design and change management skills are both essential and inseparable. As experienced change agents know, the right organization design is only right if it gets implemented.

Course Objectives: Participants will be able to:

  • Diagnose change situations to select appropriate tools
  • Use the appropriate change management tools
  • Consult with clients to increase change and transition effectiveness
  • Align behaviors with organization priorities and direction
  • Identify and mitigate stakeholder concerns
  • Assess the change management and individual transition issues involved in an intervention
  • Use change and transition tools in the following situations:
    - Mergers/Acquisitions
    - Restructurings
    - Outsourcing
    - Reductions in force
    - Process improvement initiatives
    - Etc.
  • More effectively influence clients concerning change and transition
  • Implement a specific action plan to apply tools and learnings
  • Integrate change and transition tools with other design and/or improvement tools and methodologies

Change Management Tools Presented in Change and Transition:

  • Developing a Vision
  • Critical Success Factors
  • Organization Change Magnitude Assessment
  • Change Readiness Assessment
  • Stakeholder Evaluation/Action Plan
  • Change Support Bell Curve
  • Change Structure & Roles
  • Compliance/Commitment Grid
  • Communication Plan
  • Project Risk / Issue Log
  • Celebration Planning Guide
  • Follow-up Assessment

The photos below show the Change and Transition participants booklet, the Table of Contents, and an example of one change management tool. Please contact us so we may discuss your unique needs.

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Aligning for Success: Micro Organization Design Program

As organizations’ and practitioners’ sophistication in organization design has risen, a need for specialized tools to facilitate the design of work, decision making, information, metrics, rewards, and people systems became evident. AlignOrg Solutions’ Organizing Systems Tool Kit is an easy-to-use guide for practitioners who are helping organizations achieve alignment of choices and systems at the micro level. The tools in this tool kit are currently being used by TVNZ, Association of Public Health Laboratories, and Consumers Energy. Some of the tools included are process evaluation, benchmarking, product problem analysis, value-added analysis, output/activity reconfiguration, metrics design, aligning organizing systems and many more. AlignOrg Solutions provides an essential tool set for developing organizing choices that will drive strategy. These tools are best taught as they are used by individuals and teams.

Course Objectives: Participants will be able to:

  • Understand the methodology for designing organizing systems
  • Understand the tools and concepts of strategy and organization design used to prepare the organization for organizing system design
  • Effectively identify and prioritize the organizing choices of the organization that need to align to strategy and the macro structure
  • Acquire the organization design tools necessary to design at the micro organization level
  • Systematically review how work is done so that efficiencies can be achieved and new strategic capabilities can be developed
  • Learn to design/redesign roles so that decisions about how to staff the new organization can be made
  • Ensure alignment among choices using the proper sequence of design steps
  • Understand and use the organization design model to drive organization choice making
  • Apply tools to actual organization design situations to ensure understanding

Organizing Systems Tools

  • Organizing Systems Design Flow
  • Process Evaluation
  • Resourcing Considerations
  • Value-added Analysis
  • Product Problem Analysis
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Design Criteria Development
  • Stakeholder Requirements
  • Output/Activity Reconfiguration
  • Organizing Rationale
  • Span of Control & Management Layers
  • Job Design
  • Responsibility Matrix
  • Linkage and Matrix Design
  • Metrics Design
  • Rewards Design
  • Staff Modeling
  • Work Transition Planning

The photos below show the Organizing Systems Toolkit, the Table of Contents, and an example of one Organizing Systems tool. Please contact us so we may discuss your unique needs.

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IdealSpan

One of the most common questions we are asked is "What is the ideal span of control?" As straightforward as that question might seem, the research suggests that it depends. Rather than continuing to say "it depends" or worse, making up a general rule of thumb (e.g., 1 to 7), AlignOrg Solutions has developed an easy-to-use web application where you can calculate the ideal span of control for a specific position given the unique conditions in your organization. Click on the IdealSpan logo below to register or log-in to the IdealSpan application.