Where a small push goes far
System archetypes and leverage points.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Systems Leadership
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
Today's problems often come from yesterday's solutions. This module introduces the system archetypes Peter Senge popularised in The Fifth Discipline: fixes that fail, shifting the burden, limits to growth, eroding goals, the tragedy of the commons and success to the successful. It reads temporary accommodation in England as a shifting the burden pattern and offers a five step process for using archetypes without turning them into blame. A system has many parts you could change, so which are worth the effort? This module works through Donella Meadows's twelve leverage points, from shallow numbers to deep goals and paradigms, and explains why most effort goes to the weakest levers. It examines information flows through the Cardiff Model for Violence Prevention and reads Wales's 5p carrier bag charge as leverage that changed a default and then a norm.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Describe the six common system archetypes and identify the loops, delays and side effects that drive each one.
- Apply the shifting the burden archetype to a public service pressure such as temporary accommodation, separating the symptomatic and fundamental solutions.
- Use archetypes as an invitation rather than an accusation, testing your diagnosis with the people who live the problem.
- Explain Meadows's twelve leverage points grouped from shallow to deep, and why most organisational effort goes to the weakest.
- Identify information flows, rules and defaults in your own system that could act as higher leverage than budgets or targets.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 04System ArchetypesToday's problems often come from yesterday's solutions. This module introduces the system archetypes Peter Senge popularised in The Fifth Discipline: fixes that fail, shifting the burden, limits to growth, eroding goals, the tragedy of the commons and success to the successful. It reads temporary accommodation in England as a shifting the burden pattern and offers a five step process for using archetypes without turning them into blame.39 min
- 05Leverage Points: Where to Push the SystemA system has many parts you could change, so which are worth the effort? This module works through Donella Meadows's twelve leverage points, from shallow numbers to deep goals and paradigms, and explains why most effort goes to the weakest levers. It examines information flows through the Cardiff Model for Violence Prevention and reads Wales's 5p carrier bag charge as leverage that changed a default and then a norm.38 min
Keep going.
Part of the Systems Leadership topic, also sold whole as Leading the whole system.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Learning to see systems, 3 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Seeing and shifting systems, 5 hours 30 minutes, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, Leading the whole system, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Beyond our own walls
Other Bitesize in the Systems Leadership topic
- Seeing the wholeSystems thinking and system mapping2 hours£39
- Leading what no one controlsComplex adaptive systems and systems leaders1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Sensing what wants to emergeAdaptive leadership and Theory U1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Trust as the real currencyRelational leadership and Collective Impact1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Where law and place meetWelsh law, integrated care and devolution1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Learning as the way we leadHuman Learning Systems and system measurement1 hour 15 minutes£39
