Structuring your organisation to deliver

Name: Structuring your organisation to deliver
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How to organise your business to ensure effective decision-making through your vertical structure and across functions

Created byTim Levett at The Working Journey

Last updated 6/2020

English

What you'll learn

How to design a business structure that will enable your people to deliver the goals of the organisation

Course content

2 sections • 10 lectures • 1h 14m total length

Introduction to levels of work5:52
This video provides foundational knowledge of work complexity and the observed nature of differing themes of work.
The Organisational Design Sequence7:55
Structuring your business is about more than just moving functions around. This module shows you an eight step process to ensure that you build an organisation that delivers your plans and is viable into the future.
The building blocks of effective verticle structure8:32
In all organisations, there are numerous functions or work systems that co-exist. In smaller organistions this may be something to aspire towards. In this lecture you will learn the importance of these three building blocks of solid business structure and how to effectively design and integrate them.
Empowering your people to succeed7:24
You pay your team a lot of money to deliver outcomes. Yet by denying them the authority to make decisions or poorly defining their roles and the outcomes required, we so often set them up to fail. This lecture will teach you how to design roles where peoples natural 'best effort' can be applied to effectively deliver the outcomes required.
Role Definition & Reporting Distance in your vertical structure7:51
Designing functions that deliver8:05
This lecture shows you how to define and organise your functions and work systems so that the purpose of the function is defined and these work systems within your organisation are integrated with other work systems both vertically and horizontally.

What are Cross Functional Relationships7:14
This video provides learners with the basis for cross-functional relationships and how to use the tools of accountability and authority to set them up.
Work systems and the cross-over manager6:19
This video provides learners with an understanding of how cross-functional role relationships allow empowering work systems to be set up using identified role relationships.
The working together and serving each other role relationships7:10
This video will provide learners with an understanding about the role relationships of coordinating, collateral and servicing and when they can be used to create empowered roles.
The advising and counselling role relationships8:10
This video provides learners with an understanding about the role relationships of advisory, monitoring, auditing and prescribe and when they can be used to create empowered roles.

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Description

Learners will gain an understanding of methods and tools that will allow them to deliberately set up your businesses to get work and decisions flowing. By following the learning material in this course you will have all of the tools necessary to build and organisation that delivers its plans with people who are engaged in their work.

Who this course is for:

Chief Executives, Senior Managers, Human Resource & Org Design Professionals

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Course content

Vertically designing your structure6 lectures • 46min

Horizontally designing your structure4 lectures • 29min

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