21st century consulting

An Organizational Development (OD) consultant acts as an agent of change for an organization. Managers seek an OD consultant’s help when a change for the better on a business or performance need levels is required (not only desired).

A good Organizational Development consultant is able to combine a thorough understanding of organizations, their systems and processes with a profound and practical understanding of human development. Far too often one of these dominates or even excludes the other, yet neither is sufficient on its own. To become an effective agent of change for organizations one needs to see and understand the whole.

Organizational Development involves the development of people, systems, and processes. OD activities, often inspired from the inside (e.g. out of a carefully crafted strategic plan), more and more frequently are impelled into existence at the boundary between an organization and its environment. No organization operates in a vacuum; it is a part of a much larger economic, social, and cultural environment, and since that environment changes constantly, today’s businesses encounter countless stressors - external stimuli for change. Within a year long-term strategies become inconsistent with what people - spread over all levels of an organization - know to be current needs of markets, clients, partners, co-workers, and suppliers.

On top of all that implementation of new strategies means changing ingrained habits, ways of doing things, and ways of thinking, and this is never easy. Never before has the success of a company depended so much on the quality of communication between people, on intelligent and applicable empowerment of employees, and on the alignment of knowledge distributed throughout an organization with strategic decision-making processes.

An Organizational Development consultant understands these dynamics. The consultant helps organizations to become agile, and to attain greater flexibility and adaptability, because change for the better, to be permanent, must be continuous.

A comprehensive certification program

The First Certificate in Organizational Development Consulting (FCODC) is an international certification program for consultants conducted by Advisio Consulting Methodologies and Tavistock Consultancy Service. The program is aimed at consultants, trainers, coaches, advisors, and experts who already have practical experience in implementation of development projects for organizations and are looking for new methods, tools, and inspirations to become even better in their consulting work.

The FCODC offers a wealthy set of knowledge, skills, and practical tools that allow consultants to run most essential human potential optimization processes in organizations. The 9-day program includes:

• 2 days dedicated to the role and working methods of a 21st century Organizational Development consultant,
• and 7 days during which participants will learn how to implement organizational development processes using Advisio’s online tools, namely how to:
  - facilitate strategic dialogue in organizations, and enhance MBO processes using the Synergia tool,
  - create and update task description fiches for each employee, and conduct task performance evaluations using the Task Navigator tool,
  - increase competence adaptability and flexibility of an organization using the Competence Navigator tool,
  - spot talents throughout an organization and implement a successful "talent management" program using the Star Tracks tool,
  - perform system-oriented recruitment processes using the Talent Hunter tool,
  - diagnose an organizational climate using the Delight Index tool.

Program participants

The FCODC program is open to those who meet at least one of the following criteria:

• they have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in the role of a consultant, trainer, coach, advisor, or expert working within the Organizational Development field, or:
• they have a minimum of 3 years’ experience as an internal change agent in organizations (i.e. head of the HR department, business development director, HR manager, internal trainer, etc.), or:
• a master’s or postgraduate degree in the area of management,
• a doctorate in the humanities, social sciences, or economics.

Join us

If you believe that the key to the development of today's organizations is the optimization of the human - system relations, participation in this program will equip you with a set of knowledge and practical methods and tools that will allow you to convert this belief into concrete actions, and actions - into measurable results!

Organizations of the future will expect their consultants to help them out with well thought-through, far-reaching, systemic interventions. If you are aware of that, the FCODC program is for you!

Have a look at the benefits of completing the FCODC program.