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Systems Thinking
The business environment is becoming increasingly complex; so too are the decisions today’s business leaders are being asked to make. As a result, many decisions are made without a thorough knowledge of those complexities and without understanding their consequences. Too often, they fail to produce the desired results. Systems thinking can help leaders make better decisions.
Systems thinking is based in the tenet of connection: nothing stands alone, it is always part of a system that influences how it behaves. Systems exist in nature (eco-systems); our body (the nervous system); and in business organizations (people and processes). To understand the true result of decisions, leaders must understand the connections and system in which the part exists.
This half-day workshop is designed to immerse attendees in the basic concepts and applications of systems thinking in the business world. The class format will include both discussion and experiential activities that will focus on application of systems thinking tools and analysis in the workplace. Participants will be asked to forecast the outcomes of decisions being considered in their own workplace.
Details
Date: TBA
Time: 8 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
PDHs: 4 | CEUs: 0.4
Price: $675
Who Should Attend
- Organizational leaders and decision makers
- Strategists, supply chain professionals, operational managers, engineers, business unit/function leads
- Anyone interested in learning how to understand potential future outcomes and consequences of decisions
Associated Courses
- Lead with Impact: Leadership & Management Methodologies
- Navigating and Understanding Competing Views
Benefits
- Define systems that exist in the workplace, look at system archetypes, discuss how systems behave, and consider their counter intuitive behavior
- Discuss and participate in experiential activities focusing on the application of systems thinking tools and analysis in the workplace
- Forecast the outcomes of decisions being considered in your own workplace
Learning Outcomes
- Understand how to use systems thinking to improve your decision making
- Identify how today’s decisions can impact and shape the future
- Break down problems so they are manageable
- Systems, systems thinking, and tenets defined
- Why we need systems thinking in business
- How systems behave
- Understanding systems structures and stability
- Counter-intuitive system behavior
- Using systems thinking to develop foresight
- How system structure and behavior influence the outcomes and consequences of your decisions