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Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking
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, will accompany you through this thematic area.Resources
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, will accompany you throughout this thematic area.Resources
Template: Data and Evidence for Policy & Decision Making
Use this template you analyze how you can use your leadership position to strengthen a regular culture of data use.
Presentation: Evidence-based and Results-Driven Policy Introduction- Wednesday 22, 2023
Presentation: The Use of Data in the Identification and Timely Management of Disruptions in Nigeria’s Private Health Insurance Sector- Wednesday 22, 2023
Presentation: Tracking Progress in RMNCH in Zambia – Wednesday 22, 2023
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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:- Why does systems thinking exist (i.e., its promise and popularity)?
- What is systems thinking?
- 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 – Cornell University, will accompany you through this thematic area.Resources
Presentation: Systems Thinking – Wednesday 22, 2023
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 Severn Images
This blog post explains what is Systems Thinking 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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Change Leadership
Change Leadership
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
Template: Immunity to Change Mapping
Use this template to conduct an immunity to change analysis, 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
Presentation: Transformative Leadership – March 24, 2023
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 Goals – how creating superordinate goals can bring diversity together to collaborate
Reading: The Power of Collective Ambition – by Douglas Ready and Emily Truelove, Harvard Business Review
Overcoming Resistance to Change
Why you can’t predict change & what emergence is – David Chalmers
Reinventing Organizations – Frederic Laloux