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SUMMARY:2025 Strategic Organization Design & Activation Workshops (Enrollment Includes both Workshops)
DESCRIPTION: Comprehensive Two-Part Strategic Org Design Certificate Program (Enrollment Includes both Workshops)\n\nPart 1: Strategic Organization Design Workshop (3/4/25-3/7/25)\nPart 2 (Part 1 is a Prerequisite): Strategic Organization Design Activation Workshop (5/14/25-5/16/25)\nComplete both the Strategic Organization Design Workshop and the Strategic Organization Design Activation Workshop to earn your Certificate in Strategic Organization Design.\n\n\nAbout the Strategic Organization Design Workshop\nDeepen your understanding and sharpen your skills: Organizational design is a cornerstone of competitive advantage and performance. The ability to design organizations that are efficient enough to drive performance and flexible enough to sustain advantage is a fundamental capability in today’s dynamic and competitive environment. Dynamic strategies call for new organizational forms that pose complex new design challenges at all levels and in all sub-systems of the organization.\nThis workshop provides participants with the principles\, frameworks\, and tools of organization design for those who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the topic. It also addresses the ever-increasing challenges created by a growing digital economy where work\, change\, and design issues are merging.\nAttendees might include:\n\nHuman Resource Professionals\nHuman Resource Business Partners\nHuman Resource COE Professionals\nLine Managers and Design Teams\nInternal Corporate Consultants\nOrganization Development Professionals\nTalent Management\, Total Rewards\, HR Operations\nInternal Consultants\n\n\nAbout the Strategic Organization Design Activation Workshop\nSome of the more difficult design challenges occur after the organization chart has been communicated.  Activating a design successfully\, that results in sustainable competitive advantage\, is a formidable task.\nIn this highly interactive\, practical program\, participants will learn how to apply and leverage activation-related frameworks in addition to the frameworks and tools learned in the Strategic Organization Design workshop.  Real life case studies will be used to highlight applications.\nParticipants will learn how to:\n\nIntegrate organization design with business model frameworks\nApply a systems-thinking approach to activation\nOrchestrate identification and activation of effective lateral connections\nAddress micro-design challenges related to management processes\, rewards\, and people\nEnsure effective design governance and change management to activate and sustain the changes\nUnderstand how to influence and manage design fatigue and resistance\nThis course is especially beneficial for individuals or teams who are currently working on design activation.\n\n  \nAttendees are eligible to earn up to 15 SHRM PDCs (Professional Development Credits).\n  \nClick here to download a justification email template.\n			 \n				\n				\n				\nUniversity’s Notice of Non-Discrimination\nThis program is open to all eligible individuals. The Center for Effective Organizations operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race\, sex\, ethnicity\, sexual orientation\, or any other prohibited factor. \nIndividuals with disabilities who need accommodations to attend this event may contact Vivian Jimenez. We request that individuals requiring accommodations or auxiliary aids such as sign language interpreters and alternative format materials notify us at least 7 days prior to the event. Every reasonable effort will be made to provide reasonable accommodations in an effective and timely manner.\n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				LOCATION:\nMicrosoft Campus\n1 Microsoft WayRedmond\, WA 98052 \n			 \n				\n				\n				INSTRUCTORS:\nChris Worley\nBeth Gunderson\nLiz Vales Damron\n\n			 \n				\n				\n				Registration Deadline\nFebruary 10\, 2025 \nPricing (Enrollment Includes both Org Design & Org Design Activation Workshops)\nNon-Sponsor: $11\,695Sponsor: $9\,470 (use your sponsor discount code at checkout) \nDiscount\nWhen signing up for the Strategic Organization Design Certificate Program\, groups of three or more from the same Non-Sponsor company will receive a 10% discount.  Contact Vivian Jimenez to receive this discount. \nQualifications\nAlthough this workshop provides a broad overview and hands-on tools\, it is designed for people with some grounding in organization design issues. \nCancellations\n\nOn or before 2/10/25 the cancellation fee is $250.00.\nFrom 2/11/25 to 2/24/25\, 50% of the fee will be refunded.\nRegistration fees are non-refundable for cancellations received after 2/24/25 and for no-shows.\n\n			 \n				Register Here\n			\n				March Workshop Agenda\n			\n				May Workshop Agenda\n			\n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS\n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					CHRISTOPHER G. WORLEY\, Ph.D.\n					\n					Research Professor of Management\nPepperdine University &\nCEO Affiliated Senior Research Scientist \n					\n				 \n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					BETH GUNDERSON\n					\n					CEO Affiliate Practitioner &\nMinikahda Partners\n \n					\n				 \n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					LIZ VALES DAMRON\n					\n					Principal at Liz Vales Consulting
URL:https://ceo.usc.edu/event/2024-strategic-organization-design-activation-workshops/
LOCATION:Private: One Microsoft Way Redmond\, WA 98052\, One Microsoft Way\, Redmond\, WA\, 98052
CATEGORIES:Org Design
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ORGANIZER;CN="Vivian Jimenez":MAILTO:vivianji@marshall.usc.edu
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SUMMARY:EEN Session: Turning Cost Challenges into Strategic Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:Turning Cost Challenges into Strategic Opportunities\nHow can HR pursue cost efficiencies and organizational effectiveness simultaneously?\nSession Leaders: Alec Levenson and Alexis Fink\nWednesday\, April 16\, 20258am PT | 11am ET | 4pm BST (1.5 hour duration)\n  \n			 \n				\n				\n				Join us on April 16 for a live Enterprise Effectiveness Network (EEN) session in which Alec Levenson and Alexis Fink discuss how you can move beyond reactive cost-cutting measures and pursue cost efficiencies and strategic opportunities simultaneously. You’ll gain insights into how HR and business leaders can use information\, data and storytelling to promote more proactive approaches to balancing cost pressures with long-term capability building. \nWho should attend? \n\nHR and OD professionals tasked with balancing cost pressures with business outcomes.\nHR and OD professionals seeking to align efficiency activities with strategy.\nHR and OD professionals seeking strategies for navigating financial\, HR and business needs.\nHR and OD professionals seeking to decrease waste and inefficiency in HR and talent processes\nSenior executives and decision-makers responsible for driving organizational change and workforce transformation\nOD Practitioners associated with designing effective organizational structures and ensuring that policies and practices adhere to cost restraints\nTalent Management Leaders wanting to structure roles\, polices and processes for business outcomes\n\n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				Contact Us to Join EEN Meetings\n			\n				Learn more about EEN\n			\n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				SPEAKERS\n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					ALEC LEVENSON\n					\n					CEO Senior Research Scientist \n					\n				 \n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n					ALEXIS FINK\, Ph.D.\n					\n					Meta and CEO Senior Affiliated Research Scientist \n					\n				 \n			 \n			 \n				\n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n			 \n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\nUniversity’s Notice of Non-Discrimination\nThis program is open to all eligible individuals. The Center for Effective Organizations operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the University’s Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race\, sex\, ethnicity\, sexual orientation\, or any other prohibited factor.
URL:https://ceo.usc.edu/event/een-session-turning-cost-challenges-into-strategic-opportunities/
LOCATION:Virtual\, CA\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Vivian Jimenez":MAILTO:vivianji@marshall.usc.edu
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