Gregory Kesler and Tom Falkowski, Competitive Human Resources Strategies, LLC

J. Brady Lum, The Coca-Cola Company

The workshop is a very practical and road-tested, two-day program that features frameworks and tools for business people who need to help solve organization design issues in their companies. These tools and practices have been used at The Coca-Cola Company, Nike, Merck, McKesson and many other companies over the past ten years.

The two-day workshop is targeted to line managers and OD/HR professionals with ten or more years of experience.

The ideal participants will have responsibility for current organization design issues in their companies that can be addressed during the workshop, as participants work through these topical areas (detailed on the next page):

• Fundamentals of Organization Design
• Setting Design Criteria Based on Strategic Growth Choices
• Conducting Organization Assessments
• Innovative Design Solutions - Current Trends
• The Five-Step Design Process

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Content Areas - Up Close

Fundamentals of Organization Design

• Finding the right solution - "Skeletal"  vs. "nervous-system" design elements

• Balancing the conflicting forces of
  "integration and differentiation"

• Defining organization capabilities to guide
  design

• Strategic vs. "bottoms-up" design models

Setting Design Criteria Based on Strategic Growth Choices - The Six-Benefits Model

• Management attention

• Specialization

• Coordination

• Control and accountability

• Learning and motivation

• Leverage and scale

Conducting Organization Assessments -
Application

• Applying design principles

• Using interviews and survey methods

• Interpreting the data

• Using design teams effectively

Innovative Design Solutions

• Global category structures - and other customer-focused designs

• Front-end / back-end integration

• Global R&D and supply-chain networks

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Innovative Design Solutions (cont'd)

• End-to-end and center-led function design

• Service center and other consolidation models to drive scale and efficiency

• New approaches to managing the matrix effectively

• Acquisition integration opportunities

Five-Step Design Process

1. Defining the Business Case for Change

• Translating strategy into structure

• How to set design objectives and principles

2. Strategic Grouping

• Basic grouping options

• Evaluating design concepts for your business

• Pros and cons of matrix organization structures

3. Organization Development

• Building the levels and spans-of-control

• Defining a corporate operating governance model

• Business process, networks and councils

4. Role Definition

• Designing jobs, decision rights and role clarity

• Resource re-purposing

• When to re-staff new organization designs and how to do it

5. Implementing New Designs

• Developing an implementation plan

• Change-management tools

West Palm Beach Marriott
1001 Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach, Florida

A block of rooms is being held for participants at a special rate of $209 per night for the nights of January 15 and 16. Please contact the hotel directly to make your reservation and indicate you are with the CHRS group at 1-561-833-1234.

$1,850 per participant. Companies will be invoiced for 50% of the total fees upon enrollment (non-refundable), and the remaining 50% will be invoiced 30 days prior to the workshop.

Gregory Kesler is managing partner of Competitive Human Resources Strategies LLC, a firm specializing in executive-talent management, organization design and alternative reward systems.

Mr. Kesler has been an organization design consultant for more than 40 major corporations around the world over the past 20 years, designing innovative organizational structures and implementing executive succession, assessment and development practices. His organization design work has included globalization of product categories and other growth-focused initiatives. Mr. Kesler has published numerous articles on executive development and human resources management, and is editor of the talent division of The HR Planning Society Journal.

Before beginning his consulting career, Mr. Kesler held positions in three Fortune 200 companies, representing such diverse industries as office systems, capital equipment and pharmaceutical and consumer products. His clients include The Coca-Cola Company, Nike, Merck, Solvay, Levi-Straus, McKesson, Pfizer and many others.

Tom Falkowski is a partner in CHRS. He has counseled a broad spectrum of organizations in numerous industries across five continents. His areas of focus include business strategy, process improvement, organizational change, employee development and technology-enabled training. He has acted as organization design consultant for numerous clients and has helped companies to use learning technologies to leverage intellectual capital in innovative ways.

Tom was Vice-President of Learning Strategy for Click2Learn and also held several key positions at Development Dimensions International (DDI), where he was Vice President of Consulting for International Operations. He was also Vice President of Learning and Performance Technologies for the global human resources consulting company.

Tom has a Masters degree in Information Resource Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a Bachelors degree in Finance from Boston College. His clients include Nike, The Coca-Cola Co., Microsoft, Parke-Davis Australia, Reynolds Metals, and Lubrizol.

J. Brady Lum is vice president, strategic planning and integration for the Coca-Cola Co. Brady has held senior operating roles in the company including region vice president, operations for North America. He has acted as the project lead for extensive re-organization initiatives worldwide for the company, playing a key role in implementing the company’s new global growth strategies.