In this half-day workshop, leaders will learn systems thinking to improve decision-making by understanding complex business environments. The workshop includes discussions and activities to apply systems thinking tools and forecast workplace outcomes.

Date: Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 
Time: 8 a.m.–12 p.m.
CEUs: 0.4 | PDHs: 4 | Price: $399
Location: MSOE 
Instructor: Dirk Baldwin

Who Should Attend

• Organizational leaders and decision-makers
• Strategists, supply chain professionals, operational managers, engineers, business unit/function leads
• Anyone interested in learning how to understand potential future outcomes and consequences of decisions

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to use systems thinking to improve your decision-making
• Identify how today’s decisions can impact and shape the future  
• Break down problems so they are manageable    
• Systems, systems thinking, and tenets defined  
• Why we need systems thinking in business
• How systems behave  
• Understanding systems structures and stability  
• Counter-intuitive system behavior    
• Using systems thinking to develop foresight
• How system structure and behavior influence the outcomes and consequences of your decisions