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A beginner friendly executive course on how structure, operating models, and culture shape performance. Participants learn how to assess current organizations, choose fit for purpose structures, and guide humane, data informed change that responds to industry, society, and environmental demands.
You will understand core organizational design concepts, compare common structures, and diagnose where your organization helps or hinders strategy. You will outline a practical path to restructure for agility and resilience, with clear decision rights, metrics, and change governance.
After this training you will be confident in:
• Explaining key ideas in organizational design and when to redesign
• Identifying and analyzing functional, divisional, matrix, networked, and agile product structures
• Selecting strategies to restructure for speed, customer focus, and accountability
• Aligning structure with operating model, culture, and sustainability goals
• Executive level familiarity with strategy, P and L, or function ownership
• Bring a simple org chart and a short description of current challenges if possible
*We know each team has their own needs and specifications. That is why we can modify the training outline per need.
Module 1: Introduction to organizational design
• Purpose of org design and its link to strategy and execution
• Core principles such as alignment, coherence, and adaptability
• Triggers for redesign across industry shifts, technology, regulation, and environmental change
Module 2: Comparing organizational structures
• Functional, divisional, matrix, networked, platform, and product team models
• Strengths, risks, and typical failure modes of each structure
• Span of control, centralization vs decentralization, and value stream orientation
Module 3: Operating model building blocks
• Roles, capabilities, processes, and decision rights
• Governance forums, RACI patterns, and cross functional interfaces
• Linking corporate center, business units, and shared services without bottlenecks
Module 4: Diagnosing the current state
• External pressures from market, society, and environment
• Pain point mapping across customers, employees, and partners
• Evidence sources such as org charts, workflows, metrics, and interview insights
Module 5: Designing for agility
• Principles for smaller accountable units and clear missions
• Product and journey centric structures, chapters and communities of practice
• Modularity, interfaces, and lightweight standards to enable change
Module 6: Restructuring strategies and sequencing
• Pathways such as pilot and scale, carve out, or phased transition
• Role clarity during change, interim structures, and leadership behaviors
• Workforce planning, incentives, legal and HR considerations
Module 7: Culture, inclusion, and sustainability
• Culture shaping mechanisms and psychological safety for faster decisions
• Remote and hybrid operating norms, cadence, and transparency practices
• Integrating DEI and environmental or social commitments into structure and goals
Module 8: Implementation and measurement
• Change narrative, stakeholder map, and communication plan
• Decision cadences, OKRs or KPIs, and leading vs lagging indicators
• Simple roadmap with checkpoints, risks, and feedback loops
Hands-on learning with expert instructors at your location for organizations.
Master new skills guided by experienced instructors from anywhere.
