ReImagineering Systems

Reimagineering is not just a catchy phrase,

it is a complete change in mindset. This philosophy encompasses the best current leadership theories and is tailored to elevate your current status, experience and success. We uncover your inner leadership style… and develop the leader you have always wanted to be…

THE LEADER YOU HAVE BEEN BORN TO BE!

Reimagineering Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. The systems thinking approach contrasts with traditional analysis, which studies systems by breaking them down into their separate elements and viewing their relationships both individually and as a whole.

According to systems thinking, system behaviour results from the effects of reinforcing and balancing processes. A reinforcing process leads to the increase of some system component. If reinforcement is unchecked by a balancing process, it eventually leads to collapse. A balancing process is one that tends to maintain equilibrium in a particular system.

In Reimagineering Systems - attention to feedback is an essential component of organizational thinking. For example, in project management, prevailing wisdom may prescribe the addition of workers to a project that is lagging. However, in practice, that tactic might have actually slowed development in the past. Attention to that relevant feedback can allow management to look for other solutions rather than wasting resources on an approach that has been demonstrated to be counterproductive.

When should you use Reimagineering Systems Thinking?

Problems that are ideal have the following characteristics:

• The issue(s) is(are) important.

• The problem is chronic, not a one-time event.

• The problem is familiar and has a known history.

• People have unsuccessfully tried to solve the problem before.

• A deeper bench in leadership would prove a better team.

• A single minded culture has harvested consistent, similar results over years.

• When IQ has stifled the EQ

People don’t become systems thinkers because systems thinking is so cool; they do so because they discover that linear thinking won’t answer their questions. Linear thinking is cause-and-effect thinking: One cause has one effect. Sometimes it works adequately, as when you run out coffee at the office and your staff complain. Your employees complain and reduce efficacy (effect) because they had no coffee (cause). If you supply coffee again, your teams will produce. Linear thinking is quite effective in solving this kind of problem.

So many of the interventions we design focus on addressing symptoms rather than underlying problems. However, our world is made of many complex relationships and interrelationships. Systems thinking provides a perspective that, most of the time, various components affect each other in various, and often unexpected, ways. Why was there no coffee? Who supplies the coffee? Why does the team need coffee to function? Is there a social relationship with the coffee experience which leads to synergies between teams and employees? Ect…

Reimagineering Systems also utilizes the 6 thinking hats and Lateral Thinking methods developed by Edward de Bonoand applied throughout the business world.

Six Thinking Hats distinct directions are identified and assigned a color. The six directions are:

Managing Blue – what is the subject? what are we thinking about? what is the goal? Can look at the big picture.

Information White – considering purely what information is available, what are the facts?

Emotions Red – intuitive or instinctive gut reactions or statements of emotional feeling (but not any justification).

Discernment Black – logic applied to identifying reasons to be cautious and conservative. Practical, realistic.

Optimistic response Yellow – logic applied to identifying benefits, seeking harmony. Sees the brighter, sunny side of situations.

Creativity Green – statements of provocation and investigation, seeing where a thought goes. Thinks creatively, outside the box.

Lateral thinking is a manner of solving problems using an indirect and creative approach via reasoning that is not immediately obvious. It involves ideas that may not be obtainable using only traditional step-by-step logic. A whole workshop is available on this.

We utilize current assessment tools and even develop our own for specific industries

Our main assessments, but not limited to only these:

• -Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Step II Form Q (MBTI)

• -Spectrum CPI-260 Coaching Report

• -Multi-Rater Leadership Assessment: Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)

• -Auerbach Coaching Questionnaire

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