complexity - even dead fish go with the flow master class
with Complexity Expert Marion Kiely
in partnership with the Australian Institute of Health & Safety (AIHS)
For anyone who doesn’t know where to start in resolving messy and complex systems or problem in their workplace.
As human beings we place a lot of value on order, and try to make our world and workplaces as ordered and predictable as possible. Although we have made great advances in fine-tuning ordered systems, which are predictable and knowable, we have found that our efforts fall short when we utilise the same approach when dealing with complex systems, which are unpredictable and unknowable. The tools & methods that help us in ordered systems appear inappropriate and in some instances even harmful in complex systems.
In this master class we will explore the differences between ordered and complex systems, and look at some of the complexity principles & concepts that will help us in our quest to develop resilient organisations.
This master class will provide heuristics and ‘survival skills’useful for navigating complex terrain, which you will be able to take with you back to your own organisation.
The alternative is to be taken downstream, but even dead fish go with the flow, right?
some topics that we will go through:
Complexity principles and concepts.
Safety as an emergent property of a complex adaptive system.
Relationship building is a strategy.
upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:
Understand the concepts and research that support Complexity theory to better understand work as done and system implications.
master class details
This is a 3 hour interactive video workshop event with a maximum of 30 participants.
Principles and concepts will be presented with practical examples conveying applicability to managing for safe & resilient outcomes.
$295 AUD
master class participants will receive:
Presentation of themes derived from identified issues by participants
Video recording of the session
Presentation material
Access for six months to a master class web portal containing workshop materials and relevant case studies, change strategies, journal articles, book references, links to e-resources, and tools to collaborate with other participants beyond the master class.
presented by
Marion Kiely
Marion Kiely is a Senior Consultant at Art of Work where she helps clients navigate complex challenges and become more resilient. She adopts a progressive, straight-talking approach, and is an advocate of anthro-complexity and adaptive safety approaches.
Working at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals for over 15 years, she led a very successful safety program. In 2012 she attended a masterclass in Human Factors and Safety with Prof Sidney Dekker who introduced her to Dave Snowden’s Cynefin Framework and complexity theory. Ever since, she has been pursuing more knowledge in this area and applying it to the safety field. She lectures at the University College Cork and is also a member of the IOSH South Ireland Committee.
She has a particular interest in people in the system and has amassed much knowledge and experience in how change can be introduced and sustained within organisations. She has an aversion to safety approaches which focus on 'fixing the employee' and is much more interested in looking at what elements of the system are setting employees up for failure and working with organisations to explore their organisational ecosystem, make sense of it, and take action based on the discovery and sense-making activities undertaken.
learn more about the upcoming master class from Marion Kiely herself.
registration
master class registration: $295 AUD*
AIHS and Lighthouse Members: $265.50 AUD*
due to the online format of the interactive workshop, numbers are strictly limited to 30.
*prices exclude GST.