Complex Organization Design: Advanced Practitioner Workshop
Led by Greg Kesler and Amy Kates
October 27–28, 2009

A workshop for the experienced organization designer

Organization design is fast becoming an essential capability for line managers, human resources and organization development "professionals".

If you've got the basics, and now want to increase your analytic ability, expand your toolkit, and raise your confidence in tackling complex design challenges, this case-based, intensive workshop is designed for you.

What is the focus

In this two-day session we'll explore in depth:

• How organizations need to change along with business models
• What smart companies are doing to reduce costly infrastructure and focus on value in the current economic down draft
• How to make the move into new markets and geographies
• Throughout we'll be sharing insights into how to design and support complex matrix organizations. We'll also look at the work from a consulting perspective—how to manage the project, the client, and participation in the decision-making process.

You'll learn from real and current cases. You'll apply the learning to your own organization.

The highly interactive workshop design will also ensure that you contribute and learn from your fellow participants and leave with a network of new organization design colleagues.

Topics

• The workshop will cover the following topics:
  
• A model for organization design
• Symptoms that your organization isn't aligned
• Strategic grouping: how companies are solving today's business problems
• Best practices for making a complex organization work in today's environment
• Consulting tools for activating the matrix
• Insights into managing the organization design process and implementation
• We will also work on participant cases and challenges. You will leave with new ideas and specific feedback on your own work.

Who should attend

This workshop is open to line managers, internal staff, and external consultants. We encourage participants who:

• Have attended some prior organization design training
• Currently lead or participate in organization design projects

Instructors

The workshop will be led by Greg Kesler and Amy Kates, organization designers who consult to a wide range of global companies and organizations. In addition to guiding leaders through design decisions, they both teach organization design. They are also both editors of the journal People & Strategy.

Greg is managing partner of Competitive Human Resources Strategies, a firm specializing in executive talent management, organization design and alternative reward systems. For more information on Greg and CHRS visit www.CHRS.net.

Amy is the principal of Downey Kates Associates, a New York City based organization design firm. She is the co-author, with Jay Galbraith, of Designing Your Organization (Jossey-Bass, 2007) and Designing Dynamic Organizations (Amacom, 2002), two of the best-selling books in the field. More information on Amy and DKA can be seen at www.DowneyKates.com.

Schedule and Location

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

9am-5pm We will be meeting in New York University's beautiful new Kimmel Conference Center located in the heart of scenic Greenwich Village overlooking Washington Square Park. The Kimmel Center is at 60 Washington Square South in Manhattan.

5pm-7:30pm Dinner hosted by DKA and CHRS. Please let us know if you will be joining us as our guest at dinner so we can make the appropriate arrangements.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

9am-5pm Program continues at the Kimmel Conference Center

Travel and Hotels

The program fee does not include travel or hotel expenses. Club Quarters Hotels offers a discounted rate if you mention that you are attending a workshop held at New York University. For information, please go to www.clubquarters.com. Their central reservation number is (212) 575-0006, and their three NYC locations are:

Club Quarters Downtown, 52 William Street, New York, NY

Club Quarters Midtown, 40 West 45th Street, New York, NY

Club Quarters Eastside, 49 W 45th St, New York, NY. Early hotel booking is recommended.