The Professional Clinical Doctorate: Organizational Diagnosis
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The Clinical Specialty in Organizational Diagnosis ~

Program Content: This course of study is expected to take four (4) years, but could be done in less time with due diligence. As a student, you will learn how to lead the process of self-discovery to be used in organizational diagnosis in ways in which the organization will identify with the diagnosis, and the plan of action, and will create energy for change.  You will learn multiple approaches to team building and group problem solving, what makes teamwork effective, and how to promote functional conflict.  Learn to create a bottom-up structure which enables the organization to have an open system that is open not only to its environment but to itself; how to create a learning organization; and, how to create responsibility for change in the organization which will be taking responsibility on its own.

Specific learning outcomes include:

A. Basic techniques for synergistic organizational diagnosis.
B. Effective techniques for obtaining the active involvement of a company's managerial team in the organizational transformation process.
C. To guide groups into becoming effective management problem-solving teams and to obtain consensus among a company's management team regarding tough organizational challenges.
D. How to compose and train teams needed to solve organizational transformation problems identified in the diagnosis.
E.   How to provide leadership upward and to activate the higher rings of the organizational hierarchy.
F.   How to obtain the authority from the organizational power structure to solve organizational problems.
G. To apply these in specific experiential situations and refine experiential competence and skills.  Through the experiential internship activity, students increase their competence and skills in building intra-organization management problem solving teams, conflict management skills, and organizational therapy tasks.

The clinical specialty in Organizational Diagnosis includes the following three content areas

 Academic: Online courses are described here. Eight courses are required for students entering the program with a Bachelors Degree; 3 courses are required for those who are qualified for advanced standing. All online courses are managed in conjunction with the Adizes Graduate School academic online degree programs - the Masters and the Ph.D. All information regarding the academic online courses applies as well.

 The following pre-requisite courses (not available at AGS) are required and must appear on your transcripts or you may submit a written petition for a waiver of these pre-requisite courses (required with the application documents) based on demonstrable professional experience, or take these courses anytime prior to Adizes Phase training: 

Production or Operations Management
Introduction to Statistics

Clinical: Phase I - III of the Adizes methodology, including on-site classes, online lab work with supervision, and internships in a client environment.

The Doctoral Project: The final project is a case study of facilitation with one client using all the phases of the area of study in which the student has specialized OR the documentation of innovations in the field of organizational transformation INCLUDING a case study indicating their success.

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