Certifiably Brilliant: A Unique Opportunity for Canada's People Management Practitioners
The Queen's Organization Effectiveness Master Certificate is a unique series of programs that has been designed with Canada's high-level people management practitioner in mind. This certificate is a comprehensive set of programs that features two required programs -- a foundational course and a practicum -- plus three elective programs that delve deeper into the key competency areas. The certificate speaks volumes to your ability to adopt a whole-systems view of organizations and to your commitment as a continuous learner. If you are a senior manager responsible for professional development, the Queen's Certificate is assurance that your staff has the latest core process skills to address the challenges of modern organizations.
Our OD/OE Certificate Programs
There is a significant evolution in the field of human resource management: increasingly, people management practitioners must understand the concepts and learn the skills involved in designing organizations to leverage inherent strengths, not stifle them. The practitioner's work is guided by a set of powerful questions designed to discover the needs of their organization. The toolkit includes a theory map or diagnostic lens that guides the practitioner's questions, an action research consulting process, and a battery of effective techniques to create suitable interventions.
We have designed all of our organization development and effectiveness programs with such needs in mind. Incorporating what we learned from focus groups, academic theories, and our own practice, we created the Queen's IRC Blueprint for Diagnosing Organization Effectiveness, which is designed to help practitioners to collect data, begin diagnosing what is going on in the organization, and identify where they may intervene. Our basic OD certificate offers the grounding in OD and the skill set to lead change initiatives and build high-performing teams. The Organization Effectiveness Master Certificate described here allows practitioners to go deeper into each of the "rooms" of the IRC Blueprint.
The Queen’s Organization Effectiveness Master Certificate*
Join Canada's people management leaders for the most comprehensive training available to advanced practitioners, with a focus on specialist areas and high-level facilitation skills to achieve organizational effectiveness. This certificate requires completion of two core programs and three electives.
Business Strategy: build process expertise in strategic planning and facilitate this process in your own organization (required)
Three elective three-day courses
Organizational Design: learn key concepts and skills for creating flexible, effective designs
Leadership Capacity: gain knowledge to assist your organization in building critical leadership competencies
Organizational Learning: develop learning styles and strategies that promote and spread knowledge
Partnership Development: gain insight on helping clients and colleagues define key relationships and mediate conflict
Consulting Skills Practicum: tackle a complex challenge requiring system-wide change while receiving intensive coaching from top experts (required)
*You may take programs in whichever order best addresses your professional development needs. To receive the Queen's Organization Effectiveness Master Certificate, however, you must first complete the Queen's Certificate in Organization Development.
