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Is it possible to make an organizational system healthier? What does a healthy system consist of? Every person in an organization is part of a system. By examining the beliefs and assumptions of all team members, as well as their personal visions, you'll discover the most profound leverage of the entire system. Change a belief, and you change an entire system. Combine that with a common vision, and you have the makings of a healthy system. This course will take you through four areas of focus that will encourage you to take a closer look at your systems and redesign them to create the healthiest system possible. |
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How do you implement systems thinking? How do you take what you've learned in theory and apply it to your organization? This course will walk you step by step through a planning process of designing an organizational system. You'll learn how to design your ideal organization, how to implement the design, and how to incorporate the learning of the new system so the entire team involved becomes a part of it. |
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What do you do after you've created an idealized design for your organization? This course will provide you with the skills you'll need to successfully implement an idealized design in your organization. You'll study the groundwork for learning, including how to use adaptive learning and how to be an advocate for adaptive learning. You'll learn about democratic hierarchies, decision-making processes, and the skills necessary for being a leader in your redesigned organization. In the final section of the course, you'll explore the roles that development, ethics, and aesthetics play in the redesign of your organization. |
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Systems repeatedly fall into common patterns. In this course, you will learn five system archetypes, patterns that appear in every organization. By becoming aware of an archetype and learning how to identify it in your work situations, you gain a strong tool for assessing the structure and forces at work in your organization. Archetypes are used to clarify and test models as well as compile the many details involved in systems thinking that can so easily overwhelm the beginning systems thinker. Using archetypes simplifies the process of looking at your systems and gives structure to the steps needed to work within those systems. |
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How is "systems" thinking different from everyday thinking? Learning to apply systems thinking involves more than just knowing what it is. There are many ways to look at a problem, and how you approach it can drastically change the outcome. This course looks at the four-step systems-thinking method for addressing issues. It covers four different styles of thinking: dynamic thinking, big-picture thinking, operational thinking, and quantitative thinking. Each style will bring you closer to the core of your problems or concerns and enable you to make changes that will benefit your organization in the long run. No more quick fixes that only cause more problems and don't really treat the problem at hand. No more shrugging your shoulders when asked why a problem has come up once again. No more explaining away certain aspects of a situation only to have them come back to haunt you at a later date. Learning the "thinking" of systems thinking will quickly put you in the driver's seat of problem solving within your organization. |
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Have you tried to change a habit over and over only to face defeat again? Do you look at your relationships and see the same problems coming up and feel incapable of changing them? Does it feel like you're butting your head up against the same wall with no relief in sight? Using systems thinking in your personal life can be a new and effective way to tackle and change issues at their core. It is possible to change old habits. You can learn to communicate in more effective ways. Change is not only possible, it is part of life. In this course, you will explore the personal nature of systems. You'll learn about different types of personal patterns and you'll learn how to change personal patterns that aren't benefiting you. You'll also explore how systems thinking can connect you to the world at large. You'll learn how relationships operate as systems and the process you can go through to change relationship patterns that aren't working. This course will introduce you to the wealth of potential available to you when you bring systems thinking into your life on a daily basis. |
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What exactly is a system? Why is it important to understand systems? How can you use systems thinking to manage your organizations more effectively? Systems thinking enables you to delve into the inner workings of your organization to get to the core of what drives your company forward--or backward. Not only will you solve problems, but you will also be able to change the thinking that leads to the problems in the first place. Systems thinking is a way of seeing more and farther, enabling you to manage yourself and your people with the best information possible. |
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