Building a Healthy System


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
Is it possible to make an organizational system healthier? What does a healthy system consist of? Every person in an organization is part of a system. By examining the beliefs and assumptions of all team members, as well as their personal visions, you'll discover the most profound leverage of the entire system. Change a belief, and you change an entire system. Combine that with a common vision, and you have the makings of a healthy system. This course will take you through four areas of focus that will encourage you to take a closer look at your systems and redesign them to create the healthiest system possible.

Target Audience
Managers, supervisors, team leaders

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Mental Models

  • recognize the importance of identifying and testing mental models within an organizational system.
  • match the reflection techniques that test leaps of induction to the corresponding examples.
  • match the steps in the ladder of inference with the corresponding reflection questions.
  • identify the guidelines to balance inquiry and advocacy.
  • Personal Power

  • recognize the benefits of encouraging higher levels of personal power in yourself and in your employees.
  • identify the four-step process to clarify personal vision.
  • match the techniques to work with limiting beliefs with the examples.
  • identify the ways to encourage personal power among employees.
  • Common Vision

  • recognize the importance of creating a common vision.
  • identify the guidelines for building a common vision.
  • differentiate between the first two phases of building a common vision.
  • match the conferring and creating phases of building a common vision with the corresponding examples.
  • Learning as a Team

  • recognize the benefits of learning as a team.
  • identify the key components of team learning.
  • match the principles of dialogue to the examples.
  • match the strategies for dealing with conflict in dialogue to the examples.
  • Course Number:
    STGY0402