Systems Thinking Assessment

can you answer question after reading these : Systems Thinking Exercise

Most of us can easily identify a complex challenge in the workplace. This exercise is designed to help you practice systems thinking by working through some of the steps of diagnosing and moving through problem solving using a systems thinking approach. The exercise will give you an opportunity to observe how systems thinking can be an effective approach to problem solving in a public health setting.

Think about your workplace:

$1.$ What is achallenge that your organization is encountering?

$2.$ What are some of the quick fixes you can think of $$ off the top of your head?

$3.$ Imagine that your boss doesn$$t know anything about systems thinking and usually takes a linear approach to examining and solving problems. How would you go about explaining systems thinking to him$/$her$?$ How would you describe the primary advantage of approaching the problem from a systems perspective to him$/$her$?$ Besides solving the problem at hand, what are some possible additional benefits to your organization from adopting a systems thinking approach to problem solving?

$4.$ Imagine that your boss agrees with you and is willing to give it a try. Which groups might be among those who you would bring together to form a team to work on this issue?

$5.$ For the purposes of this exercise, imagine yourself as belonging to each of these various stakeholder groups, in turn. How would you see the challenge from each group member$$s perspective?

$6.$ Attempt to draw what the system looks like. In real life, this work would be done as an exploratory exercise, collaboratively, with the entire group.

$7.$ What are some possible solutions to the problem? What arepossible results of these in terms of solving the problem? What are possible additional side effects of these solutions?

$8.$ What is the best way to reduce the likelihood of negative side effects?

$9.$ Imagine that your boss asks you to lead a multi$-$disciplinary team to come up with a solution to this problem. Some members of the team are resistant to the way you are proposing to work together$-$ in other words, they don$$t recognize, or don$$t want to recognize, that you all work in a system and that each part of that system has an impact on the whole and its parts. Think back to your response for #$3$ above. How would you explain to these members why you believe systems thinking is the best approach forfinding solutions to complex problems?

$10.$ How would you break through the organizational gridlock that such team members might create?

What did you learn about yourself? Did anything surprise you?