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Systems Thinking

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Elevate your strategic decisions with tools to understand the complex business, economic, environmental, political and social systems within which we operate.

20 Aug 2025
24 Nov 2025
Next date
Delivery
In-Person
Location
Wellington
Duration
2 days
CPD/PLD Hours
15

Course overview

A practical two-day course that focuses on Systems Thinking approaches to strategic decision making and help you understand and deal with the complexity underlying business, economics, environmental, political and social systems.

Each day starts with some theoretical learning before diving into small group exercises. This is based on the teaching philosophy that participants learn most effectively when engaged applied learning.

Facilitated by

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Arun Elias

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What you'll learn

  • Understand systems thinking terminology and concepts.
  • Examine how systems thinking contributes to strategy.
  • Learn how to apply systems modelling approaches to your work.
  • Learn casual loop modelling.
  • Understand and apply systems archetypes.
  • Experience a group model building approach to systems thinking.

Course modules

Day 1

  1. Introduction to Systems Thinking Concepts
  2. Systems Thinking for Strategy
  3. Systems Modelling for your workplace/sector – I
  4. Systems Modelling for your workplace/sector – II

Day 2

  1. Systems Archetypes
  2. Group Model Building for your workplace/sector – I
  3. Group Model Building for your workplace/sector – II
  4. Conclusions and Action Items using Systems Thinking

Here's what others are saying

“The course is very valuable as it provides ways to apply strategic thinking to various complex problems which we might need to address in our work. I am looking forward to apply what I have learn to my next project!”

“Useful course, applicable to my day to day work, with an engaging lecturer who helped make the material interesting and memorable.”

Upcoming Courses & Delivery Options

20 Aug 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 2 days

Session 1 | 20 Aug 9:00am - 4:30pm
Session 2 | 21 Aug 9:00am - 4:30pm

$1495

excl. GST

24 Nov 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 2 days

Session 1 | 24 Nov 9:00am - 4:30pm
Session 2 | 25 Nov 9:00am - 4:30pm

$1495

excl. GST

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