What is THIS organiSation development programme? 

Organisation Development (OD) promotes organisation health and effectiveness in the face of challenges in…

  • Adapting to the increasing pace of change

  • Dealing with complex problems

  • Integrating and aligning resources

  • Building sustainable capacity to achieve success

Programme Benefits

  • Develop the capacity to view and understand organisations as systems

  • Expand skills in specialised OD areas via experiential learning

  • Learn why, when, and how to intervene at different levels of system

  • Increase ability to use one’s self as an instrument for intervention

  • Learn practical skills to establish productive relationships with clients and work groups, including through experimenting with the application of module learning to real work situations

  • Learn from working with colleagues in a dynamic and diverse cohort community setting

  • Learn about the foundational principles of OD, how and why they have evolved over time, and how they continue to influence current OD theories and methods

Other Unique Features

  • A diverse faculty, offering a broad range of practitioner work, scholarly practice, and learning methods; face-to-face learning methods are complemented with occasional virtual inputs from, and discussions with, pioneering figures in the OD field

  • Cohort-as-learning community to create and disseminate knowledge and practice, including outside the modules and beyond the programme (supported by the NTL alumni association)

  • Participants are encouraged to form mentoring relationships with alumni from previous cohorts; mentors offer one-to-one peer mentoring between modules, providing support and help in integrating programme learning into day-to-day practice

  • Explicit, ongoing attention to dimensions of difference as an asset to our work in and with organisations in an environment that embraces diversity, inclusion, and belonging

 

Who Participates in the programme?

Participants are experienced practitioners, managers, and/or leaders. Annual cohorts comprise HR professionals, change agents, OD practitioners (internal and external), talent management and leadership development professionals, and communications and engagement professionals. The programme draws on its global reputation to attract participants from EMEA, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, along with the British Isles. Maximum diversity of organisational experiences and personal backgrounds enhances the richness of the learning environment.

The programme also draws people with many years of experience who are contemplating changes in their work. Usually, these individuals have had experience of OD interventions and they would like to incorporate OD principles in their next work.

History

Founded in 2007 by NTL members Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge and Phil Mix, the programme is the longest-running OD certificate programme of its kind in the UK and Europe. Under Mee-Yan’s leadership, the programme grew in reputation and annual cohort size, and now boasts an alumni population of more than 300. Several faculty members have been with the programme since its start, ensuring that each year’s programme learning is incorporated into the next year’s programme planning.

Today, Shelly Hossain and Michael Ciszewski are Directors of ODC Europe (NTL) Ltd and Co-Deans of the overall programme.

 

Sponsors

NTL Institute

Founded in 1947, the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science (a US-based organisation) is a not-for-profit educational institution whose purpose is to strengthen relationships and organisations by fostering self-awareness and interpersonal, group, and organisational effectiveness.  NTL was instrumental in creating the field of organisation development during the 1960s. NTL provides training and education in over twenty countries. NTL publishes the quarterly Journal for Applied Behavioral Science, as well as a range of practitioner-oriented books including The NTL Handbook of Organisation Development and Change. For more information on NTL, visit www.ntl.org.  

ODC Europe (NTL) Ltd

ODC Europe (NTL) Ltd is a UK-based, not-for-profit, limited company established by NTL members for the purpose of managing and marketing the NTL Global OD Certificate Programme – UK. ODC Europe also provides customised programmes for organisations as well as consulting support to OD capacity development.

ODC Europe is dedicated to promoting the NTL Institute’s mission, vision and values, applying commercial discipline to sustain a leading-edge programme for future generations of organisation development practitioners.