A practical guide to working with complexity

If you work with people, culture and organisations, you’re working with complex systems.

Everything is connected.
Decisions influence behaviour.
Ways of working shape culture.
Small shifts in one place can have unexpected effects elsewhere.

From where we sit in this work, we often see a lot of what’s going on - but those connections, how different parts of the system influence one another, aren’t always easy to see.

This short guide is an invitation to step back and look across a situation more deliberately - to notice what’s there and begin making sense of how things are holding together.

It focuses on one core systems thinking practice: learning how to see the system more clearly before deciding what to do.

By taking a little time to see the system more deliberately, the choices you make next are more likely to be well judged, intentional, and capable of creating meaningful movement.

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If you’d like to apply this in a structured, supported way, you can find out more about the Introduction to Systems Thinking programme here