Course Name
Systems Thinking Basics: Solving Team Problems that Keep Coming Back
Schedule
May 19, 2025 - May 20, 2025
Schedule via Zoom:
May 19 & 20, 2025
Monday and Tuesday
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Early Eagle Rate:
Php 11,000
Valid Until:
May 06, 2025
Description
This course is for you if you are a team leader, supervisor, or small business owner who must solve complex or adaptive problems and who has not taken any systems thinking course.
Complex problems are problems that have no clear boundaries, no clear solution, many stakeholders, and many interrelated factors.
This course will teach you basic tools for seeing, understanding, and acting on your complex problem.
Who should attend
This course is for you if you are a team leader, a supervisor in the private or public sector, or if you are a small business owner who has not taken any systems thinking course.
Learn and apply basic, teachable systems thinking tools on real, complex problems that challenge team or small-business performance.
I. Systems and Systems Thinking
A. Characteristics of systems
B. Systems Thinking Habits
C. Systems Thinking vs Linear Thinking
D. Habits of A Systems Thinker (Waters Center)
II. Seeing and understanding the system
A. Systems thinking iceberg: Events, patterns, structure, and mental models
B. Causal links and behavior over time graphs
C. Connection circles and basic causal loops
D. The ladder of inference
III. Acting on the system
A. Leverage
B. Places to intervene in a system
C. Changing the structure of your system
D. Helping your stakeholders see, understand, and act on the system
Ms. Czarina B. Teves is an accomplished organization development consultant, executive coach, and leadership facilitator with over 25 years of experience supporting corporate, government, and development organizations. She is a Certified Jungian Coach, Stakeholder Centered Coach, and Action Learning Coach, with deep expertise in systems thinking, emotional intelligence, and coaching culture.
Coach Ina has designed and delivered leadership and coaching programs for institutions such as the Ateneo CCE, the Asian Institute of Management, the Development Academy of the Philippines, and the Civil Service Institute. She is a mentor-coach at the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health and the Ateneo School of Government - Doctors to the Barrios. As a coach, she has helped executives and managers in the private and public sectors on their journeys of leading the self, leading others, and leading systems.
She is a former President of the International Coaching Federation Philippines Charter Chapter and is co-founder of InnerWorks Coaching PH, a brand focused on somatic, systemic, and depth coaching.