Seminar Leading in a Complex World — Systems Thinking in Management

Goals:

• understand and execute the systems thinking management circle / approach
• view your own organization / department from a bird´s view
• assess your leadership competencies as a “systemic leader”
• conduct a current state assessment of the one´s own department
• define key issues to improve the department´s effectiveness
  

Content:

1st phase (2,5 days): Systemic Leadership

• Principles of systemic leadership thinking
• New management roles — new personal competencies
• Fundamental capabilities and leadership practices needed to be an effective systemic leader
• Centering your leadership-circle of success
• Self assessment of the participants´ role competencies as systemic leaders
• Collaborating across functions
• Current state assessment tool (Homework: Conduct systemic assessment of the participants´ own department)

• Present and discuss results of the current state assessment done by the participants within their departments
• Define key issues for development derived from the current state assessment

• Systemic management process — systemic management cycle
• Linking people, strategy and performance
• Improve performance — how?
• Customer focused systems thinking model to creating high performance
• Leading and mastering change and development

Method:

• Short lectures
• One-to-one and group work
• Coaching/case studies from the participants every day work
• Tools to be used as practical exercise aligned to participants´ topic management task

Participants: Senior Management

The seminar is practice-oriented but also delivers some theoretical input.