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www.watersfoundation.org Introduction to Systems Thinking for Early Childhood Leaders CEELO Leadership Academy New Orleans, LA June 3, 2015 Facilitator: Tracy Benson Ed.D. President/CEO Waters Foundation Systems Thinking Group [email protected]

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Introduction to Systems Thinking for Early Childhood Leaders

CEELO Leadership Academy

New Orleans, LA June 3, 2015

Facilitator:

Tracy Benson Ed.D. President/CEO

Waters Foundation Systems Thinking Group [email protected]

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Systems Thinking

Reflection Mental Models Dialogue Collaborating

Aspiration Personal Mastery Shared Vision

Capacity Building

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Seeks to understand the big picture

Observes how elements within systems change over time,

generating patterns and trends

Recognizes that a system’s structure generates its behavior

Considers an issue fully and resists the urge to come to a

quick conclusion

Surfaces and tests assumptions

Makes meaningful connections within and

between systems

Checks results and changes actions if needed:

“successive approximation”

Recognizes the impact of time delays when exploring cause

and effect relationships

Pays attention to accumulations and their rates

of change

Considers short-term, long-term and unintended consequences of actions

Uses understanding of system structure to identify possible

leverage actions

Considers how mental models affect current reality

and the future

Identifies the circular nature of complex cause and effect relationships

Changes perspectives to increase understanding

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Events

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Underlying Structures

Mental Models

What is seen

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What happened?

What ‘s been happening?What are the trends?What changes have occurred?

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BOTG Basics

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Behavior)Over)Time-Graphs:-What-is-changing-over-time?---How-are-the-essential-elements-changing?- Some sample questions to ask when identifying parts of a system that change over time:

• What important elements have changed over time? • How has __________ changed over time? • During what period of time have the changes occurred? • Where on the y-axis should the graph start and why? • How would you label the bottom/middle/top of the y-axis? • What evidence supports the graph being created?

Questions to consider once BOTGs have been created: • What caused any changes in direction or slope? • How are interpretations of a graphed element the same or different? • What changes may happen in the future based on what has been happening? • Do you see any connections (interdependencies or causal relationships) between/among graphs?

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You know you’re a

SYSTEMS THINKER if you pay

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Habits of a Systems Thinker

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!!!!!What!new!learning,!insights!and/or!new!approaches!to!leadership!have!you!developed!today?!!How!will!your!systems!thinking!learning!impact!you!and!your!work?!

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