WORKSHOP: Enhancing Leadership Effectiveness through Systems Thinking Habits

13.00-16.00, LCCI

Target learners:

Key personnel of the organization who will be able to acquire skills in how to apply systems thinking tools to solve complex problems at work & assimilating the habits to become a better leader.

Senior leaders, directors, and managers

Course synopsis:

Today’s managers and leaders often must make decisions to deal with increasing complexity in their works to achieve impactful results while keeping unintended consequences of their decision to the minimum.

To achieve this impossible feat, mangers and leaders will need to develop a lifelong learning mentality that advocates system thinking, constant experimentation and learning. The goal is to make lesser and lesser intended consequences when acting while increase more and more impacts and learning of our actions.

Leveraging upon more than sixty years of systems science used widely all around the world, this course seeks to equip managers and leaders with the knowledge and skills on how to adopt the systems thinking habits in their day-to-day work and living. It is believed through constant practicing of the fourteen systems thinking habits, managers and leaders will become effective leaders and lifelong learners.

As more individuals within the organisation become lifelong learners and effective leaders, the organisation of which these individuals reside will become a learning organisation which will help the organisation becomes better at innovating and winning in this ever-competitive business landscape

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the 3-hrs workshop, participants should be able to:

• Describe what is a system and its key characteristics
• Describe what is systems thinking and its values
• Define the identified systems thinking habits that can enhance leadership’s effectiveness.
• Explain why the practicing of the systems thinking habits make us more effective as leaders
• Describe and apply the behaviour over time graph to articulate problem
• Define and identify the key components of a Causal Loop Diagram and how it can be used for complex problem

Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/izXmUeBgFk

Price:

45 EUR+VAT for LLCI members
60 EUR + VAT for others

Workshop will be led by:

Dr. Jenson Goh, CEO, Coddiwompling

Dr. Jenson is sought after by companies around the world for business and IT consultancy particularly for his insights on business excellence, systems thinking, design thinking and organisational learning. Dr. Jenson was the former Chief Information & Learning Officer of a public listed company worth $1B operating in Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and the UK. He led the IT function and was also responsible for designing and implementing group-wide learning strategies and programs to cultivate systems thinking based learning culture in the organisation. Dr. Jenson dedicated more than 2 decades of his career with the National University of Singapore, where he earned his PhD in Information Systems, researching into ways an organisation can strategically renew itself through IT innovation towards social, environmental, and economic sustainability