CERTIFICATE PROGRAM:
Strategic and Systems Thinking:
State-of-the-Art Best Practices Research

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Quite often, Strategic and Systems thinking theories are overwhelming, cumbersome and difficult to apply to real-world situations. But this certificate program explores proven, practical and easy to learn steps essential to getting your organization or department moving forward towards common goals by developing shared visions, strategies and operational plans; ensuring successful implementation of desired major changes; and building and sustaining high performance over the long term.

Certificate Program:
Strategic and Systems Thinking: The Winning Approach
 

• Stephen Haines
  Founder and CEO, Haines Centre for Strategic Management,
  Author of numerous strategic management books including, Strategic and Systems Thinking: The Winning Formula
   

There are four articles you will be required to read. Each is approximately 10 minutes in length. They include:

1. The Winning Formula
2. Becoming a Strategic Thinker
3. Strategic and Systems Thinking
4. The Rollercoaster of Change

After Session #1: You will be ask to read a 30-minute Research Report entitled: State-of-the-Art Best Practices Research Report on Strategic and Systems Thinking
After Session #2: You will complete a survey titled Becoming a Strategic Thinker
After Session #3: You will complete a survey titled Best Practices: Strategic and Systems Thinking
 

We will explore:

Top 12 Common Mistakes most organizations make in Strategic and Systems Thinking:

1. Thinking that Leadership Development is a list of skills to be learned.
2. Thinking that Planning and Budgeting are a Yearly Ritual.
3. Thinking that making culture change is a series of separate initiatives.
4. Thinking that we know how what we do fits into the bigger picture.
5. Thinking that we know how to identify and solve problems.
6. Thinking that we know the full results of what we accomplish.
7. Thinking that we know the answers to WIIFM (What’s in it for me) for others as well.
8. Thinking that we know how to lead and manage our unit or department.
9. Thinking that we know what Strategic Planning is and how to do it.
10. Thinking that we know how to personally handle change successfully.
11. Thinking that we know how to have groups and project members instantly become successful teams.
12. Thinking that we understand how to make large-scale, enterprise-wide change.

The Four Main Concepts from the Systems Thinking Research that are the basis for these 12 Best Practices Applications:

• The Seven Levels of Living Systems.
• The 12 characteristics of Living Systems.
• The basic ABC Simplicity of Systems Thinking.
• The Rollercoaster of Change.
   

This Strategic and Systems Thinking: The Winning Approach certificate is a Foundational approach on how the “Natural Way the World Works” but is a different and more holistic way to think. How we think, is how we plan, is how we act. It all starts here. Analytic Thinking is the dominant paradigm in the west today but Systems Thinking has 50 years of scientific research on a better, more natural way to think: Systems Thinking. This certificate serves as the Foundation for the next certificate Reinventing Strategic Planning certificate which begins March 30, 2009. It is best to attend this Strategic and Systems Thinking: The Winning Approach certificate to get the foundation you need before attending the Reinventing Strategic Planning certificate.

By attending this certificate program you will :

• Significantly enhance your knowledge, skills, and success in Strategic and Systems Thinking on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis rather than falling into the traps that almost all individuals, teams, and organizations do in today’s dominant analytical thinking world culture.
   
• Examine the results of the Strategic IQ Audits conducted in numerous organizations by the Haines Centre in the past six years. It addition, it is based on the extensive research by both the Society for General Systems Research in the 1970s and updated by more extensive research by Stephen Haines in the 21 st Century.
   
• Review the Four Concepts that make up General Systems Theory and its 21 st Century Systems Thinking Framework as they form the basis for identifying and classifying the top 12 Common Mistakes almost all organizations make.
   
• Explore the 12 Common Best Practice Applications as practiced by world class Thought Leaders such as Peter Drucker, Russell Ackoff, Abraham Maslow, Jim Collins and Edward Deming; companies such as Toyota, General Electric, Southwest Airlines and Samsung; the countries of Dubai and Singapore as well as the founder of OD, Richard Beckhard, the Founder of the field of Performance Improvement, Geary Rummler, and Donald Kirkpatrick’s revolutionary Four Levels for Evaluation of Training.
   

This hands-on certificate is ideal for chief learning officers, training directors and managers, project managers, planners, training specialists, implementation leaders, instructional design managers and specialists, e-learning managers, project managers, and lead persons. Anyone who is interested in improving their personal effectiveness through a better Thinking Process.

If you are looking for a better way to think, plan and act more successfully in your personal and work life then this certificate is for you. Systems Thinking is the “Natural Way the World Works” and there are simple, easy to learn ABCs that can and should become a vital part of your life. Drucker knew it, Deming knew it, Maslow knew it, Toyota knows it and now you can know it too. 

This certificate will include PowerPoint Presentations, use of your own case study, lecturettes, stories and examples as well as surveys to fill out between sessions.

You are required to complete the pre-work readings as noted under ‘Pre-Workshop and/or Interim Assignments’ above . Some exposure to the development of strategic thinking plans is helpful, but not required.
 

This course is comprised of three (3) live online sessions. Below are the dates of live sessions for the next offering of this program. All sessions start at 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York time). See below for the time of the sessions listed in various time zones.

For times in other cities, visit this link. Live sessions will be recorded for those who wish to go back and review or who must miss a live session.

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