Strategic Organizational Management

This program explores three key management areas to help your organization prepare and respond to changing market demands. First, you will define and evaluate business strategies through a behavioral lens, increasing your ability to envision your organization’s future. Next, you’ll connect your business strategy to effective organizational structures—how responsibilities are assigned, how communication flows throughout the organization, and how to incentivize your workforce. And lastly, you’ll examine powerful organizational cultures that embrace change and innovation to prepare your business to meet future goals.

By attending this program, you will:

• Explore the mental processes of evaluating your long-term business strategy, and gain the leadership tools to build followers and implement these strategies.
• Dive into organizational designs and flexible work structures that maximize efficiency and align with a company's business goals.
• Explore workforce designs that allocate human capital resources effectively, including powerful job design techniques and tools to mobilize talent.
• Increase communication streams and agreement by removing organizational barriers that hinder or prevent knowledge sharing.
• Examine organizational cultures and their readiness to embrace innovation, creativity, and new ways of working together.

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This program is for mid to senior-level executives responsible for setting their company's strategic vision and seeking to align their internal workstreams better to meet these goals. Those who contribute to driving organizational change and influencing employees at an enterprise level will also benefit. This program is appropriate for various industries and sectors.

Titles include Director, Vice President, C-Suite, Unit Mangers, and those in Talent Management and Human Resources roles.

Pre-survey for a tailored program experience:

Unlike other programs, this course incorporates a pre-program survey, allowing faculty to tailor specific sessions based on participant interests. This enhances the cohort’s learning experience with more personalized and engaging content to help foster your organization's specific learning objectives. 

Strategic Leadership: Mental Processes and Dimensions

• Foresight and Reflection: Your Strategy Credo
• Guiding Principles: Developing your Business Strategy
• Persuading and Legitimizing: Influencing Your Vision

Organizational Design: Align Your Strategy to Your Structure

• Structures to increase efficiency and productivity
• Communication Streams
• Performance Metrics and Evaluations
• Talent Management: Explicit and Implicit Employee Contracting

An Organization's Readiness: Cultures and Climates

• The Leader's Role in Setting the Tone
• Aligning Vision and Value Propositions to Your Business Strategy

The program curriculums for the April 14-17, 2025 and the September 22-26, 2025 cohorts are the same. The April program runs 4 full days, and the September program runs 3 full days plus two 1/2 days.

"The Strategic Organization Management program was transformative for me, particularly the case-based learning approach and the opportunity to collaborate with individuals from diverse disciplines. I gained invaluable insights into strategic people management and leadership, which have already impacted my work. The faculty were exceptional—both highly knowledgeable and adaptable to the audience. One strategy I plan to implement is asking my team more about their work, a practical approach I learned during the program."
 
— Bree Andrews, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UChicago Medicine