People and Organisational Effectiveness

Achieve sustained organisational success even in times of uncertainty and change. Our People and Organisational Effectiveness programme considers the links between effective people management and organisational strategy. We explore best practice approaches to help you select, retain, motivate and evaluate a diverse and high-performance workforce, so you can create an inclusive organisational culture and talent strategy that builds momentum and leads you through even the most trying of times.

Manage talent. Increase performance. Develop your people in line with your strategic imperatives and see your organisation thrive.

Understand your role as a leader and benefit from practical, data-driven frameworks and concepts.

Module 1: Aligning people and strategy

Explore the links between your organisation’s strategy, people management processes and team effectiveness.

Analyse the people management strategies that organisations pursue and the mechanisms to align your people with them.

Outline solutions to bring your workforce behind your organisation’s strategic imperatives.

Module 2: Leading your team with compassion

Consider how being an authentic leader requires empathy, sensitivity and among many other competencies the ability to adapt in unpredictable changing environments.

Understand how compassionate leadership requires wisdom, strength and caring commitment.

Module 3: Talent attraction, nurturing and retention

Discover how the best organisations recruit and retain talent.

Develop a commitment-based talent strategy based on hiring for potential, developing firm-specific capabilities, and learning through experimentation.

Analyse the challenges inherent in targeting and managing top talent.

Identify strategic goals to gain higher engagement and commitment from your workforce.

Module 4: Diversity and inclusion

Improve diversity and inclusion through inclusive leadership behaviours.

Discover the impact of diversity, inclusion, bias and privilege in the workplace.

Learn to create a culture of appreciation, learning and psychological safety.

Module 5: Performance management

Consider the strategic issues in performance management.

Explore how to motivate and evaluate your employees.

Analyse individual performance and 4 main drivers: meaningful measures, broad commitment, clear consequences and efficient processes.

Evaluate new approaches in performance management.

Analyse how strategic approaches can make compensation systems more responsive.

Module 6: Managing individual performance and people analytics

Understand the value of data and data analytics to support talent management decisions.

Explore practical examples of how people analytics support transformation in processes, strategy and culture change.

Examine how performance can be measured through people analytics.

Evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of using AI in recruitment.

Module 7: Change management and organisational development

Examine the pros and cons of change management and organisational development, including innovation and redundancy.

Identify what enables and constrains change in people management.

Explore how organisations manage the effects of organisational development.

Gain key learnings to enhance people strategy development.