Aligning
Learn how members can effectively self-design and self-manage all their primary strategy-structure links for long-term success and satisfaction
All Videos in This Course Include
Closed Captions [CC] in English
How to Design and Align Strategy-Structure Links to Support Long-Term Success and Satisfaction
Building on the first three tracks of quantum transformation (from our three course sequence on Culture Management, Critical Thinking, and Team Management), in a 3-hour recorded course (including a 138-page Course Manual), you’ll learn how members can effectively self-design and self-manage the two most important formal systems in their organization: strategy and structure.
Strategy answers this question: Where are we headed?
Structure explores this question: How are we organized to get there?
If the answers to these two questions are based on outdated—false—assumptions about key stakeholders, however, everything else that members do will be irrelevant. In this course, you’ll learn how a Problem Management Organization (PMO) can be established to uncover and then revise the false assumptions behind alternative formal systems. During this process, members derive a revitalized strategic plan that’s fully supported by a renewed structural design—the essence of aligning strategy-structure throughout the organization.
RECORDED VIDEOS
take this online course on your laptop or desktop computer, or on your tablet or smartphone
90-DAY ACCESS
watch the course videos at your convenience: any day, any time, and as often as you like
COURSE MANUAL
provides a reduced image of every presentation slide with Dr. Kilmann’s additional insights
3 HOURS TOTAL
the average time for taking this online course, studying, and then passing the optional exam
Kilmann Diagnostics is dedicated to resolving conflict throughout the world, which is addressed in this online course by providing you with the deep knowledge and the practical tools for developing an engaging strategic vision (based on accurate, up-to-date assumptions about all key stakeholders) and then deploying that vision into specific objectives, tasks, and people within semi-autonomous subunits throughout the organization. Such fully aligned, crystal-clear, strategy-structure links will then enable self-aware members to resolve their most challenging conflicts and problems—so they can achieve long-term success in a fast-paced, global village. Be prepared to experience many eureka (aha) moments!
BENEFITS OF TAKING THIS COURSE ON
ALIGNING STRATEGY-STRUCTURE
THROUGHOUT AN ORGANIZATION
DOWNLOAD YOUR BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED COURSE MANUAL: This online course comes with a 138-page downloadable manual that includes an image of every presentation slide, Dr. Kilmann's personalized notes, reference material, and space for note taking.
See Sample Manual on Conflict Management Training and Change Management Training
LEARN ALL ABOUT DESIGNING AND ALIGNING STRATEGY-STRUCTURE: In a 3-hour recorded course, you'll hear Dr. Ralph Kilmann's crystal-clear voice explain how members can effectively self-design and self-manage the two most important formal systems in their organization: strategy and structure.
LEARN THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF ASSUMPTIONS IN ALIGNING STRATEGY-STRUCTURE: Strategy answers this question: Where are we headed? Structure answers this question: How are we organized to get there? If the answers to these two questions are based on outdated—false—assumptions about key stakeholders, however, everything else that members do will be irrelevant and thus ineffective.
LEARN HOW TO DEVELOP RADICALLY DIFFERENT STRATEGIES TO EXAMINE THEIR HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS: Dr. Kilmann explains why it's so important to develop several radically different strategic plans for the future, each of which is vital, noble, and engaging—while realizing that each plan is deeply rooted in vastly different assumptions.
LEARN HOW TO DEVELOP RADICALLY DIFFERENT STRUCTURES TO EXAMINE THEIR HIDDEN ASSUMPTIONS: You'll next learn what probably is the most neglected aspect of strategy-structure: Are subunit boundaries cast in stone or in outdated assumptions? Once again, it's the hidden—false—assumptions that keep an organization's structure frozen over time, regardless of dramatic shifts in stakeholder needs and requirements.
LEARN HOW INVESTIGATING TASK FLOW REVEALS THE PRIMARY CRITERIA FOR DESIGNING SUBUNIT BOUNDARIES: Dr. Kilmann describes three different kinds of task flow (pooled, sequential, and reciprocal). He then reveals which particular task flow must be contained within subunit boundaries and which task flow can be left to fall between the cracks.
LEARN HOW TO USE A PMO FOR DEVELOPING AND ALIGNING STRATEGY AND STRUCTURE: Making good use of all the foregoing material, a Problem Management Organization (PMO) is especially created to investigate the hidden assumptions behind several alternative strategic plans and several alternative structural arrangements. During the final stage of assumptional analysis, members derive a synthesized strategic plan that's fully aligned with a synthesized design of subunits, which capitalizes on all the strategy-structure wisdom in the organization.
REVIEW PROBLEM MANAGEMENT AND ASSUMPTIONAL ANALYSIS: For your convenience, in case you haven't yet taken ADVANCED Training in Conflict Management or the Critical Thinking Course, our Strategy-Structure Course includes a brief review of problem management and assumptional analysis.
WHY TAKE THIS COURSE ON
ALIGNING STRATEGY-STRUCTURE
THROUGHOUT AN ORGANIZATION?
This course provides you and your clients with the deep knowledge and practical tools for developing an empowering strategic vision (which is based on accurate, up-to-date assumptions about all key stakeholders) and then deploying that vision into specific objectives, tasks, and people within semi-autonomous subunits throughout the organization. Such fully aligned, crystal-clear, strategy-structure links will then enable members to resolve their most challenging conflicts and problems—so they can achieve long-term success in a fast-paced, interconnected global village. As such, this course is relevant to these OCCUPATIONAL IDENTITIES:
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The price for the 3-hour Strategy-Structure Course is $300. If, at some later time, you’d like to upgrade to The Complete Program of all our online courses, you’ll receive full credit for this purchase price through our Upgrade Path.
When you complete the purchasing process, you’ll have instant access to this recorded online course for 90 days. During this access period, you can (1) log into your private account, (2) download the Course Manual, and (3) watch this recorded course as often as you like… so you can enhance your knowledge and skills for aligning strategy-structure throughout an organization.
Refund Policy: As stipulated in All Our Policies, since it isn’t feasible for you to return those intangible (electronic) course materials back to us once they’ve been placed in your private account, we do not provide any refunds—in whole or in part—for any of these individual purchases of our online courses.
To test your mastery of this course, take and pass the Final Exam, which is included in your purchase. Although we do not offer a “certificate of achievement” for the Strategy-Structure Course, passing this Final Exam counts toward earning your Certification in Conflict & Change Management with the Thomas-Kilmann Instrument, if you subsequently upgrade to our course collection: The Complete Program of All Our Courses.
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Strategy-Structure Course
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For the stipulated access period of 90 days, the participants in your group can then (1) log into their private account, (2) download the Course Manual, and (3) watch this recorded online course as often as they like… so they can enhance their knowledge and skills for aligning strategy-structure throughout an organization.
Refund Policy: As stipulated in All Our Policies, since it isn’t feasible for your clients to return those intangible (electronic) course materials back to us after they were assigned to each client’s private account, once we have imported your spreadsheet, we do not provide any refunds—in whole or in part—for any of our online courses.
Blended Learning and Passing the Final Exam
To learn how the members of any work group can blend this online course with live discussions, we provide these detailed steps: Blended Learning for the Strategy-Structure Course.
To ensure that your client or group members have learned all the relevant material in this course, you can require them to take and pass the Final Exam.
Strategy-Structure Course – Group Purchase
$300.00
