Overview:

As an Organisation Development (OD) and Leadership Development (LD) practitioner, you are frequently challenged to implement realistic and practical concepts and frameworks for organisational success. With the concept of Systems Leadership, you will acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to lead organisational intervention more effectively for business success in a complex world.

This masterclass programme will provide you with broader knowledge and help gain insights to engage key stakeholders with a systemic change perspective and address complex issues of mutual concern for shared purpose.

Programme Outline:

• Foundations of systems leadership – Core Capabilities, Role and Impact of the Systems Leader
• To become aware of one’s life purpose and contribution as a systems leader
• Learn what it takes to build shared vision with internal and external stakeholders
• Apply collective learning tools and skills to help others surface assumptions deepen thinking
• Apply systems thinking tools to gain fresh perspectives on seemingly intractable problems and begin the process of identifying more fundamental solutions
• Seeing and Shifting systems through systems thinking tools and frameworks such as the Levels of Perspectives and causal loop diagrams
• Apply coaching and inquiry to help others surface assumptions deepen thinking
• Process facilitation skills for improving the quality of collective thinking and conversations

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, participants should:

• Understand Systems Leader’s role to influence and impact key stakeholders
• Develop personal mastery to manage structural tension creatively for success
• Understand the difference between building a shared vision versus writing a visionary statement
• Apply team-learning tools and facilitation skills to construct generative conversations at the workplace
• Develop leadership skills and capabilities to apply systems thinking tools for seeing the larger system and co-create systemic solutions to complex problems
• Learn tools and techniques to harness the team’s collective intelligence through deep listening and facilitation

Who Should Attend:

• All business leaders
• Senior Management
• Organisation Development (OD) and Leadership Development (LD) practitioners in Public Service
• Private and Social sectors

Overview:

In this rapidly changing environment, business leaders and managers need to reduce uncertainty and manage residual risks more effectively. Organisations and enterprises are facing numerous complex challenges with varying consequences in magnitude and duration.

To stay ahead of these challenges, leaders should therefore embrace a deep understanding of the systemic issues they want to address, integrate their ability to engage and align diverse stakeholders for shared goals and emphasise on empowering action and collaboration with Systems Leadership.

Programme Outline:

• Foundations of systems leadership – Core capabilities, role and impact of the system leader
• Skills for facilitating generative conversations and improving the quality of collective thinking
• Apply collective learning tools and skills to help others surface assumptions deepen thinking
• Apply systems thinking tools to gain fresh perspectives on seemingly intractable problems and begin the process of identifying more fundamental solutions

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, participants should:

• Understand Systems Leader’s role to influence and impact key stakeholders
• Develop leadership skills to understand the larger system for building shared goals
• Learn tools and techniques to harness the team’s collective intelligence through deep listening and facilitation

Who Should Attend:

• All business leaders
• C-Suite executives
• Directors and Managers in the Public Service
• Private and Social sectors.

Overview

Organisations must start to develop Systems Leaders – individuals who catalyse, influence, enable and support systems-level change by mobilising diverse actors to think and work together in new ways to achieve a shared goal. Designed to develop systems leaders with the skills and capabilities to address the challenges of leading 2nd order change in an organisation, this 6-month programme (18 days of class time), will equipping participants with knowledge, skills and tools to influence the systemic and human dimensions of a change initiative where action learning using a real change project will take place. Participants will be introduced to content, which they will apply to their projects based on a ‘just-in-time, just enough’ approach. They are expected to be re ective practitioners as they go about facilitating change in their respective organisations.

Programme Outline

Developing Core Organisational Learning Capabilities

• 1. Aspiration Capability: Focusing on developing a clear sense of purpose and vision at both individual and organisational levels.
     • Personal Mastery
     • Shared Vision
  2. Generative Conversation Capability: Expanding capacity to be more reflective in thinking and to become more generative, suspending presuppositions and assumptions, when thinking and talking with others.
     • Mental Models
     • Team Learning
  3. Understanding Complexity Capability: Emphasises internalising perspectives and skills to better understand and manage systemic interconnections that produce complex organisational dynamics.
     • Systems Thinking
  4. A Five-Stage Model of Skill Acquisition and Capability Development
     • Guiding learners to advance from Novice to Expert: To impart the “know-how” of Systems Thinking

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the programme, you should be able to:

1. Better understand how to think through the challenges of embedding learning into the existing systems as well as create new learning infrastructures
2. Play a leadership role in helping organisations navigate through any change initiatives with the set of skills and competencies acquired from this programme
3. Develop sufficient competency in the principles, tools, and practices of organizational learning to help lead organisations in becoming ever more effective in achieving the organisation’s vision

Overview

The shifting business and customer landscape has accentuated the need for organisations to be adaptive and agile. This 2 – 5 day programme will allow you to look at systemic structures and gain deeper insights into the complexity of organisation systems, to generate conversations and work out solutions as a group. Ultimately, the programme provides you with a set of tools where you will relearn and reframe knowledge and perspectives to handle VUCAH world challenges.

Programme Outline

1. Coalition Building through Generative Conversations Across Boundaries
2. Co-Creating the Future through Collaborative Leadership Skills
3. Gaining Insights into the Complexities of the Larger System