Extend your professional agency
Organizations that don’t express strategy in the form of capabilities often end up asking, “Why isn’t the strategy working?”
To solve that dilemma, Capabilities emerge as a “Rosetta Stone” to translate strategy into projects and processes that are needed to produce desired results. We contend that Capability Models replace organizational charts in discussions about delivery. It answers the question, “What must we be able to do to execute our strategy and deliver results?” This is the work of leaders at all levels. Capabilities connect the work of IT, Business Architecture, Organization Design, Lean Teams, the Project Management Office, and other functions trying to get the right things done.
Apply methods and tools to define capabilities, practice modelling capabilities and assessing them. You will have more than 8 hours of direct access to the faculty, including time after each live session plus the opportunity to engage members of the cohort and learn from them.
Following the course, you and your team will be prepared to look at your organization through the lens of capabilities and lead strategy pursuit.
What you’ll learn
Make strategy actionable through a set of capabilities that shape your organization transformations
Forget hierarchy and apply new Capability techniques and tools to manage up and across the organization
Bust functional silos! Learn how to develop more collaborative relationships with other leaders to address shared challenges and goals
Strategy execution is not the work of a few leaders. Earn a seat at the table and contribute to the Mission by developing capabilities
Close a missing link in strategy execution by defining and evaluating capabilities
Develop a common operations language to discuss strategy implications on the organization's potential
Use capabilities to frame “big questions” to manage up and move forward
Start building capabilities needed for the future
Who this course is for
Organization Design Professionals who want to adapt their organizational structures in the age of AI-enabled organizations.
Organization Effectiveness and Business Architecture Professionals who want to learn how capabilities address the missing link in strategy.
Leaders at all levels who want to get on the same page regarding capabilities gaps to align and accelerate team productivity.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from your instructors in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
5 live sessions • 38 lessons • 5 projects
Week 1
May
13
Capability development in your context
Module 1: Capability development in your context
May
15
Shared understanding, the keystone of aligned action
Module 2: Shared understanding, the keystone of aligned action
Module 3: Intersession work: case study
Week 2
May
20
Learn to model your organization as a set of Capabilities
Module 4: Model your organization as a set of capabilities
May
21
Optional: GenAI Assists to Capability Development
May
22
Capability Assessment: Focus and align your organization
Module 5: Focus, align and activate your organization
Free resource
GenAI x Capabilities = Macro Organization Design
Guide Teams from Desired Outcomes to Realized Benefits
Employ Future-State Visioning, Capability Modeling, Work Design, Structure Design, and Implementation
Why work backwards from Vision of the Future State
Use future state Vision to eliminate several steps and tasks related to structure design and change management
How and why use GenAI as a teacher and coach
GenAI can bring shared language and shared conversation to designer conversations and documentation
The What and Why of Capability Models
Connect the dots from Desired Outcomes to Vision to Capabilities that realize the future state and desired outcomes
Schedule
Live sessions
Tue, May 13
2:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, May 15
2:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, May 20
2:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
Async content
Testimonials
- A refreshing change from the abstract Capability development presented through other frameworks and guidance. Speaking the language of the business and articulating a method and approach to executing your strategy through an actionable capability first lead approach. Highly recommended.
Will Nicholson
Transformation Consultant - A timely and relevant course with a considered, well-curated library of resources. Both course content and delivery were well-structured, with plenty of opportunities for Q&A and debate. I particularly enjoyed the diversity of the delivery team, with expertise ranging from academic to practical application of the theory.
Derval Kennedy
Managing Director, StratAdept in Dublin, Ireland - [Similar] program offered me a comprehensive and systematic approach to developing the capabilities and performance of my client organizations. Faculty was exceptional. I enjoyed the mix of self-study, presentations, and group discussions; and the ability to interact with other participants within my cohort.
Michael McGovern
Organization Design & Development Consultant