Organizational Development Certification
Unlock your potential with an OD certification. Learn practical tools and strategies to drive sustainable organizational change.
Certificate Highlights
Explore the Illumeo's Organization Development Certification program, and learn to diagnose, design, and evaluate effective organizational changes.
Why get an Organization Development Certification?
Organization Development (OD) often sits within the field of Human Resource Management and for good reason. Its focus is on the organization development process through people. Very often organizations invest heavily in transformational change programs or change interventions that fail to deliver performance in a sustainable way. Continuous improvement in OD changes from the perspective that every part of an organization is integral to a system that relies on and impacts other elements of the internal and external environment in which the organization operates.
Goals of Organization Development
Organization Development (OD) helps organizations deliver sustainable performance improvement through people. Those who practice OD usually have a strong humanistic and democratic approach to organizational change. People and collaboration are key features of any organization development intervention.
OD Certification Details
This Organization Development certification program explores the role of the OD practitioner, OD consulting skills and the fundamentals of OD practical tools. Participants will gain key knowledge of the history of organizational development (OD), and the behavioral science and theoretical roots of the discipline, which are fundamental to understanding why and how OD works to deliver people-led change. The modules for OD certification program also cover the tools used to diagnose an organization’s effectiveness, the design of OD interventions and how to evaluate the effectiveness of an OD program.
An organization development certified professional begins with an understanding that the organization is a human system and an OD practitioner will work within that system to facilitate the creation of a healthy and effective organization. This curriculum offers an exclusive, practice-based OD tool-kit. This 'tool-kit' article demonstrates how OD can be used to support people playing an active role in driving positive organizational change.
This certification offers 12 CEU for HRCI and 12 PDC for SHRM
Frequently Asked Questions
In short, you would do this to get better at what you already do, or to get a significant knowledge jump on something you want to do for a living. And, via the certificate itself, to be able to show others that you have attained this knowledge.
You would hire this Professional because they bring deep knowledge, on concrete topics, to your team. Simply completing the Illumeo certification denotes that the person is a serious professional willing to take the time to become very good at what they do, and that they put in the time, passed the tests, and are knowledgeable in their area of certification.
There is an exam for every course and you must pass every one in order to receive your certification. You may re-study the content and re-take any exam until you pass it.
A subscription to Illumeo helps fill out your professional knowledge with its unfettered access to hundreds of up-to-date on demand courses taught by long-time practitioners - just like the instructor of this certification program.
Instructor
Carrie Foster, Chartered FCIPD
Organization Development Practitioner
Carrie is a recognized expert in her field, appearing alongside CIPD Chief Executive Peter Cheese in a panel discussion on the Future of HR. She is a published author with a successful commercial career covering FMCG, Industrial, Manufacturing and Professional Services, she has a track record of providing OD and coaching programs across UK, Europe, Russia and the Middle East that have met both the individual and business needs.