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Influencing Human Systems with Adaptive Change

Description of Presentation

Whether you’re an individual contributor or manage entire departments, suboptimal work patterns can emerge, impacting both outcomes and interpersonal dynamics. Attempting to change these unwanted patterns often involves techniques or methods requiring large-scale buy-in and extensive change plans, which can leave us feeling disempowered. However, altering these patterns is achievable by understanding the three factors that influence human system patterns: containers, differences, and exchanges (CDE). By strategically influencing one or more of these factors, new patterns can emerge and be assessed using adaptive change. Adaptive change enables us to sense and respond to new patterns, determining if and how to influence them further. The CDE Model, combined with adaptive action, empowers any participant to effectively influence these patterns

Learning Objectives for Presentation

1. Analyze patterns in human systems (teams, departments, groups) using adaptive action.
2. Assess the containers, differences, and exchanges that impact the patterns that matter most in your work environment.
3. Determine how to influence containers, differences, and exchanges in order to form new, more desirable patterns.

Expected Key Takeaways for Participants

• By using the CDE model participants can understand the dynamics of human system patterns, quickly identify options for influencing those patterns, and take action to change the conditions that bring about change.
• The three main ways human system patterns are influenced is by changing the container, differences or exchange in question.
• Once new patterns emerge, partipants walk about with an adaptive action strategy to help determine what to do next.

Presentation Category (Triangle)

Ways of Working