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Strategy to Action - Human Systems Dynamics in Action

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This workshop is a must for professionals in the public and private sectors, higher education and government. If you can answer yes to even one of the following questions please read on and join this unique on-line program.

Are you frustrated with the speed and unpredictability of change?

Do you have difficulty explaining your reliable intuitions about what should be done and how to do it?

Are unsatisfied with the effectiveness of your current approaches to?

Are curious about the ideas of chaos and complexity connected to business, and want to see how those ideas can make a real difference in decision making and action?

A deeper understanding of human systems dynamics will change how you perceive and take effective action to improve performance.

The foundation of Human Systems Dynamics assumes:

Fitness is the foundation of success.

Dialogue is only the beginning. Meaningful change depends on action.

Individual transformation is not enough. Real change engages the whole - your team, organization, or community.

Prediction is sometimes impossible, and control is often too expensive.

Valuable insights are both TRUE and USEFUL.

Possibilities for the future are locked into the patterns of today's reality.

An answer has a short shelf life, but a good question can serve forever.

Do these assumptions shock or confirm your own beliefs about organizational change and performance? If they shock you, then get ready for a new, more productive, way to see the world. If they confirm your beliefs, then you can build on success as you articulate, share, and expand your understanding of complex human systems.

During this seven-part series, you will:

Approach human performance in new and more productive ways.

Learn tricks to help you manage projects in unpredictable situations.

Manage performance when you cannot predict or control objectives and outcomes.

Make and implement plans that help you balance stability and surprise.

Design communication systems that leverage the inherent capacity of your community

Prepare yourself and your staff for the future with strategies that build adaptive capacity.

Leverage virtual communications to improve both process and outcomes.

Establish relationships in a network of shared inquiry around the world.

Seven on-line webinar sessions will lead you to rethink strategy and move toward productive action.

1. Introduction to Human Systems Dynamics (HSD). During this session, you will explore the basic theory and practices of HSD. You will see how this radical new approach prepares you and your team to look at human performance in powerful ways. This session is provided free of charge.

2. HSD and Project Management. Traditional project management theory and practice assume the ability to predict and control. Real projects, however, make no such assumptions. Experienced project managers know the art of balancing control and flexibility, especially in complex projects, processes, or environments. This session applies principles of HSD to tools, tricks, and techniques that will help you manage complex projects more effectively.

3. HSD and Performance Management. If people were machines, it would be easy to manage performance: point them in the right direction, give them resources, and evaluate them at the end of the year. Rigid outcomes and measures of performance depend on such expectations. Unfortunately very few jobs and even fewer human beings function like machines. Instead, people introduce choice, and environments change unpredictably. This session offers a method of adaptive performance management that supports excellent work even in unpredictable circumstances. It will help you manage performance-yours and others'-even when you cannot predict or control objectives and outcomes.

4. HSD and Planning for Change. When things are changing quickly, you need planning methods that are iterative, fast, and flexible. HSD provides models, methods, and tools that help you collect data quickly, analyze creatively, and work adaptively regardless of how unstable or surprising your environment is. During this session you will learn some of the HSD tricks that will help you plan and implement to balance stability and surprise.

5. HSD and Communications. Often we hear the challenging dynamics of human systems explained away as "failure to communicate." We find this is a symptom rather than a cause of ineffective patterns in human systems. Communications can be a great tool for shifting unhealthy or unpleasant dynamics. In this session, you will learn to design and execute communication strategies that take advantage of the inherent communicative capacity of a community.

6. HSD and Training and Development. Adaptive capacity is the ability for individuals and groups to engage productively with their environments. Training and development programs, regardless of the content, can be designed to enhance the adaptive capacity of staff and managers. This session prepares you and your staff for the future with training and development strategies that build adaptive capacity.

7.HSD and Virtual Teams. In today's global marketplace, more and more of the real work is done in virtual space. Conference calls, video conferences, email, and text messages are the backbone of corporate communication. Many assumptions and habits of traditional work do not translate into this electronic environment. In this session, you will learn ways to leverage virtual communications to improve the processes and outcomes of on-line business interactions.

Your Guide. Glenda H. Eoyang, Ph.D., is a master teacher with deep insights into the art and science of self-organizing systems. As a pioneer in the field of human systems dynamics, Eoyang applies principles of self-organizing to help people thrive in unpredictable environments. Since 1988, she has provided training, consulting, coaching, and facilitation support in both the public and private sectors. She is currently serving as founding Executive Director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, a network of professionals working at the intersection of complexity and social sciences. Her published works include numerous scholarly and practical articles, Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools, Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science, and Voices from the Field: An Introduction to Human Systems Dynamics.

Human systems dynamics (HSD) is a collection of concepts and tools that help make sense of the patterns that emerge from chaos when people work and play together in groups, families, organizations, and communities. HSD helps you see and influence patterns in human relationships. HSD Institute exists to sustain a network of individuals and organizations developing theory and practice in HSD, to change the world by changing how people think about the world.

For more information about Dr. Eoyang, human systems dynamics, and related tools and techniques, visit www.hsdinstute.org.

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Presented By: Human Systems Dynamics Institute

Program Fee: $149.00

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