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Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking
This module will serve as an introduction to systems thinking methods and technical tools that are foundational to answering three essential questions: 1)Why does systems thinking exist (i.e., its promise and popularity)?, 2) What is systems thinking, and 3) How do we do systems thinking?Systems Thinking is key to transformative leadership as it enables you to understand the world you work in as the dynamic living system that it is – so you can take into account as much of reality as possible when making critical decisions in a rapidly changing world.Laura and Derek Cabrera, systems thinking experts from the Cabrera Research Lab – at Cornell University, will accompany you through this thematic area.Resources
DSRP/Systems Mapping Worksheet
Use this guide to analyze and understand your systems by using the Distinctions, Systems, Relations, and Perspectives (DSRP) model.
Systems Thinking: A Little Film About a Big Idea
Systems Thinking in Seven Images
This blog post explains what Systems Thinking is by using images and easy diagrams.
Review this infographic to learn more about patterns of thinking: Distinctions, Systems, Relations, and Perspectives.
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Integrated Governance
Integrated Governance
This module will provide a framework to grasp the wider picture of governance, including its different aspects, and the ways in which it can be dealt with in an integrated manner. Within a context where contemporary policy challenges require multi-level, multi-agent, and multi-sectoral approaches, discussing the advantages and problems of an integrated perspective on governance, its usefulness, and intrinsic challenges will be at the core of the module.
Integrated Governance is key to transformative leadership as it makes sure all the different elements of the governance system are working hand-in-hand and that you choose the approach to governance that best fits what is needed.Filipe Teles, integrated governance expert from Aveiro University, and Gabriela Morena, Integrated governance consultant, will accompany you through this thematic area.Resources
Integrated Governance Presentation
Integrated Governance Digital Toolbox
This resource brings together cases of public policies that were designed, implemented, or managed through integrated governance methods; in addition to examples of management tools and mechanisms used in order to achieve an integrated governance model.
Template: How well integrated is your governance system?
Use this template to analyze the three dimensions of your governance system.
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Evidence-based & Results-driven Policy
Evidence-based & Results-driven Policy
In this module, participants will explore a pragmatic framework and key principles for strengthening leadership through generation, analysis, and use of data and overcoming commonly experienced challenges in different settings.
This approach to policy-making is essential to transformative leadership as it enables you to respond in real-time to a rapidly changing context and makes sure that your response is the best possible fit to the needs on the ground at that moment in time.Peter Hansen, Results Workstream Lead at the Global Financing Facility, and Nkechi Olalere, Results Consultant, will accompany you throughout this thematic area.Resources
Data Use Introduction Presentation
Case Study – Data Use in the Democratic Republic of Congo Presentation
Somali Socratic Triangle Exercise
Single Contract in the Health Sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Template: Data and Evidence for Policy & Decision Making
Use this template to analyze how you can use your leadership position to strengthen a regular culture of data use.
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Change Leadership - Immunity to Change
Change Leadership - Immunity to Change
Most organizational transformations falter because they don’t address the mindset changes necessary to carry out new ways of working.
Through a highly structured, research-based method, this module will invite participants to uncover the underlying, and otherwise invisible, individual barriers (limiting assumptions and competing commitments) that actively, automatically and powerfully work against desired transformational change.Participants will be introduced to a reliable process for addressing and overcoming these barriers at their core.Lisa Lahey, change leadership expert from the Change Leadership Group at Harvard Graduate School of Education, who will accompany you through this thematic area.Resources
Immunity to Change Presentation
Immunity to Change Guiding Questions
Template: Immunity to Change Mapping – Individual Level
Template: Immunity to Change Mapping – Collective Level
Use these templates to conduct an immunity to change analysis at an individual or collective level, this will reveal adaptive challenges and limiting mindsets and provide a pathway to overcome those limitations.
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Transformative Leadership
Transformative Leadership
The complexity and speed of change of our world requires new forms of individual and collective leadership. The old ways of trying to predict the future and control our way towards it are ill-suited to our current reality. We need to develop new qualities and competencies as leaders, build resilient cultures, and create adaptive structures and processes that allow us to dynamically steer our way forward.
This module will share some of the personal leadership qualities needed and also show how other modules will be contributing to building transformative leadership in our communities and organizations.Peter Merry, transformative leadership expert from Ubiquity University, will accompany you through this module.Resources
Transformative Leadership Presentation
Course: Transformational Leadership, Strategy, and Governance Offered by Ubiquity to all CLP participants
Interview: The New Science of Leadership An interview with Margaret Wheatley
Reading: Leading Change – Why Transformation Efforts Fail John Kotter
Reading: A Whole Systems Approach to Cultural Change Richard Barrett
Reading: Superordinate Goal How Creating Superordinate Goals Can Bring Diversity Together to Collaborate
Reading: The Power of Collective Ambition Douglas Ready and Emily Truelove, Harvard Bussiness Review
Overcoming Resistance to Change
Why can’t you predict change and what emergence is David Chalmers
Reinventing Organizations Frederic Laloux