Organisation Design and Development (OD&D): Core Practice Programme

Overview

🕮 Off the shelf (OTS)

Updated in 2022 to reflect the challenges of today’s Civil Service, this 8-month, flagship development programme is designed for anyone with OD&D or change and transformation in their portfolio or for those who have an interest in moving into OD&D. Typical participants include OD business partners, human recourse business partners, change and transformation leaders, business architects and strategy and communications professionals.

The first module of the programme takes place face to face in London. After that, learning is delivered virtually through a mix of taught modules, action learning sets, webinars, real-world challenges and self-study. The programme is supported by a range of online collaboration tools including Zoom, Mural and a dedicated virtual learning environment. Participants typically report that the most powerful learning comes from working with real issues and reflecting on these with a group of committed peers from across the Civil Service.

The programme is accredited academically at post-graduate (PG) level and offers a route to PG Certificate, PG Diploma and masters qualifications in People and Organisation Development. It is also accredited by the CIPD and aligned to their Profession Map. Participants must have a first degree or equivalent in a relevant field (Level 6, 360 credits); an RPEL process may be completed for those without a first degree. In addition, participants are expected to bring a real-world OD&D challenge to work on throughout the programme. Beyond the formal contact time participants can expect to devote 100 hours to the programme over the 8 months. This consists of self-study, working on their OD&D challenge (which can therefore be part of their day job) and producing a portfolio of written work for the accreditation amounting to 3,500 – 4,000 words.

Having successfully completed the programme, participants become part of the Civil Service’s powerful community of OD&D practitioners.

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