Adaptive Organizational Design

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• Recognize the limitations of traditional organization structures, and why different structures are needed in today's rapidly changing market
• How you as a leader will need to shift and change to support a more adaptive way of working
• See a "bigger picture" of your organization. Map the system and learn how to visualize that which is hidden or implicit
• Understand the nature of networks, and how teams and networks interact
• Learn how to generate shared understanding across the entire organization. Learn ways to establish two-way communication channels that work
• Learn tools and skills you can apply tomorrow. Not "ivory tower" theory
• Apply your learning to a case study throughout the course

This is a 7-part series of 2-hour sessions, each featuring a key aspect of adaptive organizations.

• History Lesson
• Making a case for alternative organization design
• What is adaptive organization design

• Start with Why
• Understanding your organization

• Governance
• The difference between hierarchy and decision-making
• Different tools for decision-making

• Teams
• Redefining a team in an adaptive organization
• Redefining a customer in an adaptive organization
• Organizing the people vs organizing the work
• Tools for mapping value in the organization and meeting customer needs

• Transparency, Trust, and Accountability
• Bi-directional information flow, structures that support transparency
• A model to describe Trust & Accountability
• The conflict between Accountability and Trust, and how to overcome it

• Goals, Rewards, and Planning
• Understand why we set Goals, and treat them accordingly
• Draft better goals
• Disassociate Rewards from Goals, and find better ways to reward employees
• Plan the whole organization in short cycles, with strong feedback loops
• Understand how traditional structures work against short cycles

• Application
• Put it all together. Review the case study
• Look at actual, real-world examples
• Practical application to finance/budgeting
• Put together a plan for yourself