Why choose this programme?
Do you want to create a high-performing organisation to which people want to belong?
The Professional Diploma in Organisational Behaviour will allow you to create an organisation where people are motivated, engaged and committed to succeed.
Motivate
Increase your knowledge of the core psychological traits that motivate people and how you can leverage it.
Influence
Develop skills to influence, manage and improve individual and group decision-making.
Change
Understand, communicate and lead change that matches the strategy of the organisation.
In Brief
Next start date :
Location – Dublin:
Duration:
Facilitated Workshops:
Seniority:
Non-member fee: Member fee: SME fee:
Facilitated Workshops 1: 11, 12 & 13 November 2020
Facilitated Workshops 2: 16, 17 & 18 December 2020
Facilitated Workshops 3: 10, 11 & 12 February 2021
Facilitated Workshops 4: 24, 25 & 26 March 2021
Facilitated Workshops 5: 05, 06 & 07 May 2021
Day 1 of the Facilitated Workshop 1 will be delivered at the IMI campus in Sandyford, Dublin. Day 2 & 3 of the Facilitated Workshop 1 will be delivered via the IMI Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to your desktop.
Day 1 & 2 of the Facilitated Workshops 2-6 will be delivered via the IMI Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to your desktop. Day 3 of Facilitated Workshops 2-6 will be delivered at the IMI campus in Sandyford, Dublin.
You can look forward to:
Interactive classes
You will be introduced to core concepts, techniques and practical tools in interactive classroom sessions.
Guest seminars from visiting experts.
These sessions will give you the opportunity to analyse and discuss contemporary organisational behaviour issues with seasoned business experts.
A toolkit for delivering change
You will develop a practical organisational behaviour toolkit for immediate use in your workplace.
Networking with a diverse class group
You will work closely with your class colleagues in team activities and organised study groups and will leave the programme with a valuable network of business contacts.
Programmes themes
- Enhance your negotiation abilities, from team negotiations to multi-party and intercultural negotiations.
- Gain insights into alternative dispute resolution rights, power and interests.
- Become familiar with integrative and distributive bargaining techniques, as well as ethical and cultural factors.
- Analyse and understand the implications of individual psychometric profiles.
- Learn about team profiles and behavioural profiles at work.
- Take part in an Executive Information System (EIS) simulation: computer-based change management simulation.
- Explore the science behind behavioural and cognitive psychology and motivation.
- Devise strategies and define best practices for driving high performance on an individual, team and organisational level.
- Discover the fundamentals of influence and persuasion.
- Learn about the psychology of assertion and scarcity, and navigate the politics within an organisations with greater authority.
- Improve your decision-making abilities.
- Mitigate against and then leverage the influence of motivation and emotion on decision-making.
- Examine organisational development processes and their application from diagnosis to delivery.
- Understand the nature of resistance and working with the politics of organisations.
- Explore foundational organisational development models and apply to your own context.
Key takeaways
Inspire People
Create an organisation that inspires its people. Learn to motivate and lead your team more effectively and become more skillful at understanding why others behave the way they do.
Influence Stakeholders
Influence and lead diverse stakeholders. Develop a framework for understanding how to effectively influence others.
Strategy Execution
Execute strategies across boundaries. Know how to understand, communicate and lead organisational change and match the strategy of the organisation to the design.
What our graduates say
Completing the programme in Organisational Behaviour was personally groundbreaking. This programme is relevant, topical and something I would recommend all business leaders obtain to increase their knowledge and proficiency in understanding and utilising the core psychological traits to drive the organisation forward.Joe SherlockNational Corporate Sales Manager, Laya Healthcare
