3-Day Intensive Course for Business Analysts, Consultants & Management Professionals

3 Intense Days
7 Hours per Day (Split into two 3.5-hour sessions)

Learning Path Visual

Your journey from organizational diagnosis to strategic alignment:

Day 1: Foundations of Organisational Structure & Behavior
Understand the building blocks of organizations — structure, systems, and culture. Learn to read organizational charts, spot dysfunctions, and classify behaviors using foundational theories.

Day 2: Analytical Frameworks & Diagnostic Tools
Apply proven models like the McKinsey 7S Framework, Mintzberg’s configurations, and SWOT/PESTEL to analyze performance, identify bottlenecks, and recommend interventions.

Day 3: Strategic Alignment & Transformation Planning
Learn how to align strategy, people, and processes. Use diagnostic outcomes to plan organizational change, restructure teams, and support transformation with evidence-backed insight.

Course Overview

Every strategy lives — or dies — inside its organization.
This course trains professionals to understand, diagnose, and improve how organizations function. Using a combination of classic frameworks and modern tools, you’ll assess real structures, cultures, and leadership systems to identify risks, gaps, and opportunities.

Whether you’re advising leadership, supporting change, or preparing for consulting engagements, this course gives you a full toolkit to make organizational insight actionable.

You’ll learn how to:

• Interpret organizational charts and structure types

• Identify dysfunctions and misalignments in roles, processes, and behaviors

• Use frameworks like McKinsey 7S, Mintzberg, SWOT, and PESTEL

• Analyze organizational culture and leadership dynamics

• Align HR, strategy, and operations to support transformation

• Communicate diagnostic findings to leadership or clients

What’s Inside Each Day

Day 1 — Foundations of Organisational Structure & Behavior

• Types of organizational structures: functional, divisional, matrix, flat, networked

• Reading org charts and understanding span of control

• Fundamentals of organizational behavior

• Culture types: clan, adhocracy, market, hierarchy (Competing Values Framework)

• Informal systems: communication flows, power centers, decision-making styles

• Workshop: Map your own or a known organization’s structure and behavior

Focus: Structure • Culture • Leadership Patterns

Day 2 — Analytical Frameworks & Diagnostic Tools

• McKinsey 7S Framework: Shared values, strategy, structure, systems, style, staff, and skills

• Mintzberg’s organizational configurations: Simple, machine, professional, adhocracy, divisionalized

• SWOT and PESTEL in organizational context

• Root cause analysis using Fishbone (Ishikawa) and 5 Whys

• Workshop: Perform a full 7S or Mintzberg analysis on a target org

Focus: Models • Diagnosis • Insight

Day 3 — Strategic Alignment & Transformation Planning

• Diagnosing misalignment: symptoms and structural consequences

• Linking diagnostics to strategic and HR interventions

• Change readiness assessments

• Presenting organizational insights to leadership or stakeholders

• Designing a transformation roadmap: culture, structure, systems

• Workshop: Present an organizational analysis case + recommendation plan

Focus: Alignment • Action • Impact

Course Goals

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Diagnose structural and cultural weaknesses using proven frameworks

• Recommend change initiatives based on deep analysis

• Align teams, leadership, and strategy for higher performance

• Communicate organizational insights with clarity and authority

• Support transformation with evidence-based roadmaps

Who Should Take This Course?

• Business analysts and consultants involved in strategy or transformation

• HR professionals leading organizational design or change

• Executives and managers reviewing internal structures and performance

• Project and change managers assessing stakeholder or structural readiness

• Graduate students or professionals transitioning into organizational development

Class Reference: MGT-30
Form Updated on: 06/17/2025 (Version 1)
Last Modified on: 06/17/2025

Program Note

Includes editable templates for 7S diagrams, org design maps, SWOT/PESTEL frameworks, and transformation readiness checklists. Case examples from SMEs, nonprofits, and enterprise-level structures.