GBLD 505: Personal Capacities for Working in Complex Global Systems
The course focuses on building personal capacities in a global setting by developing self-awareness and self-management skills in regard to each individual’s values, beliefs, practices, and assumptions. Students engage in building understanding and communication skills that support authentic and collaborative relationships with others who have different values, beliefs, and behaviours. We explore and describe their own orientation to the world and how they exist with and relate to others from diverse cultural backgrounds. This includes being adaptive and resilient in complex, changing environments. Students will engage in systems thinking as they examine and apply concepts from complexity science to adaptive systems where cause and effect co-evolve over time.
Participants learn the fundamentals of leadership in complex environments, the ability to nurture emergence and tap into wisdom and power in the face of uncertainty. We explore the relevance of generational, gendered, and cultural difference (among other dimensions of difference including social structures), and how these influence leadership approaches when facilitating change and innovation in complex environments.
Participants learn the fundamentals of leadership in complex environments, the ability to nurture emergence and tap into wisdom and power in the face of uncertainty. We explore the relevance of generational, gendered, and cultural difference (among other dimensions of difference including social structures), and how these influence leadership approaches when facilitating change and innovation in complex environments.
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