ToTAL/OPEN Programs "System Thinking & Leadership (Series of 2 classes)" (AY2023 3Q4Q)

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Published: October 4, 2023

We are happy to announce "Call for Entries" to the subject workshop. Any of Tokyo Tech students, who are belonging to the categories below, are being encouraged to apply the workshop.

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Any Graduate students who applied ToTAL courses: "Fundamental Group Work for Leadership I / II (F)", "Master's/Doctoral Essential Group Work for Leadership (F)"
2.
Any students (both Graduates and Under Graduate students) who are interested in the workshop on ad-hoc basis (no credit and GA will be given)
3.
Any Doctoral students who are member of "Cross the border! Tokyo-Tech pioneering doctoral research program"

Outline of the workshop

  • Systems Thinking is a broader concept than the word "system" used in IT and institutions. It’s the interdependence of mutual influence.
  • In the society we live in, cause and effect are not always close to each other. Our usual thinking about consequences that occur physically and temporally distant from our actions may not work well, resulting in a reality that "no one wants". For example, if we use insecticides to try to prevent a malaria epidemic, another epidemic will spread. If you build a construction project to alleviate road congestion, you find that the road is badly clogged with more cars than before. You’re running promotions to meet your sales budget, but the same problems keep recurring every quarter. How can we solve the challenges of the interconnectedness that surround us? Systems Thinking is a way of thinking that delves into the "connections" between the complex events we experience in reality, and improves our insight to create the results we really want from a deeper level than simply dealing with problems. In this session, we will focus on Systems Thinking, touching on ideas such as "learning organizations" and "mental models", and we will also explore the nature of leadership in this complex society.

Workshop

Date and time

Session 1 Sunday, November 5, 2023, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Session 2 Sunday, November 12, 2023, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Venue

Room S4-202, Ookayama Campus

Facilitator

A. Fukutani / Systems-Thinking Educator

ToTAL/OPEN Programs "System Thinking & Leadership (Series of 2 classes)" (AY2023 3Q4Q)

ToTAL / OPEN Programs

Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL) is offering more than 20 kinds of workshops annually for fostering and developing leadership and entrepreneurship. Any of Tokyo Tech students, regardless of whether you are a ToTAL student, an undergraduate or a graduate student can apply for participating any of workshop. In addition, graduate students can register for ToTAL courses that consist of a combination of the above workshops (acquisition of credits), in which case they can also obtain a GA.

Schedule (and Attending Plan) and outline of ToTAL courses and workshops, as contents of the courses (and if the workshop are part of "Events" designated by "Cross the border! Tokyo-Tech pioneering doctoral research program") can be downloaded from URL below.

If you want to join any workshop(s) of ToTAL/OPEN Programs, please select "Attend" in the column of the schedule (and Attending Plan) to be downloaded as above and send it back to followings;

Applications and Inquires

Prof. Kamura, Prof. Matsuzaki and Prof. Yamada Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL) total.
total.tokunin@total.titech.ac.jp

Contact

Assoc. Prof. Kamura, Assoc. Prof. Matsuzaki and Prof. Yamada
Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership (ToTAL)

Email total.tokunin@total.titech.ac.jp

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