Do you need to change the way you think when faced with a complex situation? Managing complexity: a systems approach, is a free course that examines how systemic thinking and practice enables you to cope with the connections between things, events and ideas. By taking a broader perspective complexity becomes manageable and it is easier to accept that gaps in knowledge can be acceptable.
Overview
Syllabus
- 1 Managing complex systems
- 1.1 Thinking about expectations
- 1.1.1 Learning by experience
- 2 Preparing to tackle this unit
- 2.1 The nature of systems thinking and systems practice
- 2.2 Taking responsibility for your own learning
- 2.3 Appreciating epistemological issues
- 2.4 Review
- 3 Understanding systems approaches to managing complexity
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Making sense of the metaphor
- 4 Systems practice – unpacking the juggler metaphor
- 5 Being a systems practitioner
- 5.1 The state of ‘Being’
- 5.2 Being aware of the constraints and possibilities of the observer
- 5.3 Appreciating your basis for understanding
- 5.4 Experience – making distinctions based on a tradition and constructing a history
- 5.5 Distinctions about systems practice
- 5.6 Learning and effective action
- 5.7 Being ethical
- 5.8 Reviewing some implications for systems practice
- 6 Engaging with complexity
- 6.1 Articulating your appreciation of complexity
- 6.2 Experiencing complexity as mess or difficulty
- 6.3 Where is the complexity and what is it?
- 6.4 Choosing to distinguish between complex situations and complex systems
- 6.5 Appreciating some implications for practice
