complexity - even dead fish go with the flow master class | europe version
with Complexity Expert Marion Kiely
This master class is for anyone who doesn’t know where to start in resolving complex systems or problems in their workplace.
Thurs, 22nd July 2021
9:00 am - 12:00 pm (GMT+1) UK Time
how to navigate complexity.
Navigating complexity requires us to adopt an approach that isn’t based on predictability and homogeneity. It requires us to embrace uncertainty and divergence, tap into the vast knowledge of various players in our systems, seek our patterns and take small ‘safe to fail’ actions that nudge our organisation in a desirable direction.
what will you learn.
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 participants will be able to understand the concepts and research that support Complexity theory to better understand work as done and system implications.
learn with us.
The Introductory level of Complexity will be conducted as live interactive workshops.
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.
your benefits.
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. You can get ongoing access with a lighthouse membership.
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.
