Systems Thinking: A Language for Learning & Action Systems Thinking is:
• A language to help us understand more deeply how our organizations and complex systems really operate.
• The tools, processes, and principles enabling us to focus on the relationships among the parts, not just the parts.
Systems Thinking enables us to:
• Recognize the often hidden and unintended consequences of our actions.
• Change our own thinking to match the way complex systems operate.
• Change our behavior so that we are working with these complex forces instead of against them to create what we want.
• Expand the choices available to us and focus on higher leverage changes.
Instructor:
Mike Goodman
Innovation Associates Organizational Learning
Dates:
August 11-15, 2008
Location:
Texas A&M University-Kingsville Campus
Kleberg Ag. Bldg.
Room: Auditorium 102
Lectureship Overview:
When you complete the course, you will be able to use tools and the processes of systems thinking to identify, describe and begin to change the structures underlying constant problems that, thus far, have defied solution.
Specifically, you practice tools and skills to:
• See trends and structure.
• Create structural explanations for why things are happening.
• Apply system archetypes to your own situations.
• Identify mental models and their role in structure.
• Plan and evaluate actions to improve system performance.
• Build a learning organization.
Cost:
$300 - Covers all materials, equipment, refreshments at breaks, and lunches.
Registration Form:
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*This lectureship will count towards our new “Texas AgFinance Certificate in Advanced Ranch Management”
*This course has been approved for 16 CEU's by the Society for Range Management For more information: Contact Barry Dunn at (361) 593-5401 or barry.dunn@tamuk.edu
Space for lectureships is limited so early registration is recommended.
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