Applying Systems Thinking and
Common Archetypes to Organizational Issues
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Module 1 - Why the Systems View?
- Exercise: The Difference Between a Typical and a Systems View
- Exercise:
Impediments to Thinking and Acting Systemically
Module 2 - Organizational Learning and Systems Thinking Framework
- Exercise: Applying the Iceberg
- Test
Your Knowledge - Module 2 Organizational Learning and Systems Thinking
Framework
Module 3 - Systems Language
- Exercise: Naming Variables
- Exercise: Making Links
- Exercise: Identifying the Mental Models Behind Decisions
- Exercise: Labeling Links as S or O
- Exercise: Constructing a Doom Loop
- Exercise: Reinforcing Time Trend - "Lily Pond"
- Exercise: Renaming Variables - "Pile Up"
- Exercise: "Morale Problems on the Team "(Reinforcing Feedback)
- Exercise: Drawing Your Own R-Loop
- Exercise: "SOPs" (Balancing Feedback)
- Exercise: Drawing Your Own B-Loop
- Exercise: Identifying Delays
- Exercise: "Inventory Management" (Balancing Feedback with a Goal)
- Exercise: Drawing Your Own B-Loop with a Goal
- Exercise: "Budget Pressure" (Multiple Loop Diagrams)
- Exercise: "Auto Rebates" (Multiple Loop Diagrams)
- Exercise: "Marketing vs. Product Development" (Multiple Loop Diagrams)
- Exercise: "Quality Improvement" (Multiple Loop Diagrams)
- Test
Your Knowledge - Module 3 Systems Language
Module 4 - Planning Interventions
Module 5 - Mental Models and Productive Conversation
- Exercise: Your Own Mental Models (Identifying Defensive Routines)
- Test
Your Knowledge - Module 5 Mental Models and Productive Conversation
Module 6 - Systems Archetypes
- Exercise: "Managing the E-mailbox" (Fixes That Backfire)
- Guidelines: Draw Your Own - Fixes That Backfire
- Exercise: "Nobody But Me..." (Shifting the Burden)
- Guidelines: Draw Your Own - Shifting the Burden
- Exercise: "Continuous Improvement" (Limits to Success)
- Guidelines: Draw Your Own - Limits to Success
- Exercise: "Two Places at Once" (Tragedy of the Commons)
- Guidelines: Draw Your Own - Tragedy of the Commons
- Exercise: "Support or Sabotage" (Accidental Adversaries)
- Guidelines: Draw Your Own - Accidental Adversaries
- Test Your Knowledge - Module 6 Systems Archetypes
Module 7 - The Steps in Systems Thinking
Module 8 - Systems Thinking on the Job