Learn More:  Online Learning Programs

One of the newest and most effective ways of teaching and learning is webinars! This interactive venue is an engaging and highly productive way to learn in a way that is convenient and cost effective for learners.

Live Webinars

Don't Just Survive--THRIVE! 

The Power of Human Systems Dynamics

Guide:  Glenda Eoyang
Dates:  June 14 and July 15
 

The turbulent times we live in demand innovation and action. People who take adaptive action can thrive in times of uncertainty. When you understand the complex dynamics of chaotic change, you do more than merely survive. You grasp opportunities to thrive in uncertainty while others waste resources fighting for control and stability. Join us for two, one-hour webinars that will introduce you to the powerful world of human systems dynamics, where concepts from nature inform action in organizations. Using practical examples and real-world stories, you will:

  • Recognize turbulent change for what it is—emergent opportunity
  • Learn about adaptive action and assess your own capacity for it
  • Identify actions you can take to thrive, to respond to even your most difficult issues
  • Explore resources to support your continuing learning and development       

Session 1 - June 14:  See and Influence Patterns  

Any single change paradigm is too narrow to inform action in turbulent times. This session introduces three different ways to think about change. You will assess your capacity to respond effectively regardless of the circumstances. As you focus on your most difficult issue, you will learn ways to recognize and respond adaptively to each kind of change.
 

Session 2 - July 15:  Thriving on the Journey of Change

HSD Institute is a laboratory for adaptive action. This webinar tells the real-world story about the challenges and opportunities of working in a virtual, emergent, networked organization. Using HSD Institute’s simple rules, you’ll see a real-life example about the ways in which individuals and organizations thrive when they see and influence the complex dynamics of change.
  

On Demand Webinars

On Demand (archived) webinars allow users to access the training at their convenience. The price is discounted since live interaction in the training is not possible. Users have unlimited access to the archive presentation, including audio.

Complete HSD Institute Online Program Library

This Library offers unlimited access to our complete catalog of webinars, on-demand recorded programs and accompanying digital resources.  The package includes 15 programs, and will continue to grow as we continue to offer online learning.  See below for description of each of the webinar archives, and to purchase separately. 

Guide: Glenda Eoyang, Ph.D.
Cost: $199
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Virtual Open House: Celebrating Uncertainty

Guide:  Glenda Eoyang, PhD
Access all three FREE archived webinars

Glenda Eoyang, Executive Director of HSD Institute, shared the vision of the Institute as it looks toward the new year of 2010. She opens a discussion titled Looking Ahead:  What Do You Know for Sure? Six Questions for Uncertain Times. In this conversation, Glenda shared a series of questions that can guide our thinking as we face the uncertainties of the future – in the US and global economy, political climate, our organizations, community, and home life.  

During this online discussion, participants were encouraged to engage with the entire group, using their computer keyboard and/or a USB headset. You will hear the conversation and view messages posted on the message board. 

We invite all who are interested in HSD and its applications in today's challenging and diverse landscape to experience this webinar for an informative and interesting discussion.  Over the course of the Open House, the presentation was made three times, allowing participants to come and go throughout, joining the discussion when they wanted and leaving when they chose. With guests joining in at different times, all three conversations are rich, diverse, and engaging.

Once you experience this webinar, you will go away with perspectives that can change how we approach work and life in 2009.  

The Upside to Downsizing:  HSD at Work

Guide:  Glenda Eoyang
 
In these complex times, sustainability means flexibility.  And, unfortunately, flexibility often means having to downsize.  The more we and our clients walk the path toward a flexible workforce, the more we need to rethink how to walk with humanity and hope.  This free, one-hour webinar introduces you to fundamental principles of human systems dynamics, and demonstrates how those principles can shape supportive, productive, creative, and promising experiences in the midst of RIFs (Reduction in Force), layoffs, and furloughs. 
 
In this course, you will learn ways to:
  • Help individuals, teams, and organizations prepare for change
  • Support the deciders, the leavers, and the stayers through uncertain times
  • Maintain your own balance and perspective in the face of the unexpected 

Strategy to Action: The Power of HSD

Package Includes:  On-Demand Webinar:  Series of 6 live webinars, with free introductory session

Guide: Glenda Eoyang, Ph.D.
Cost: $149
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If you answer yes to any of the questions below, please read on and join this unique on-line program.                

  • Are you frustrated with the speed and unpredictability of change?
  • Do you have difficulty explaining your reliable intuitions about what should be done and how to do it?
  • Are you curious about the ideas of chaos and complexity connected to business, and want to see how those ideas can make a real difference in decision making and action? 

The foundation of Human Systems Dynamics assumes: 

  • Fitness is the foundation of success.
  • Dialogue is only the beginning. Meaningful change depends on action.
  • Individual transformation is not enough. Real change engages the whole - your team, organization, or community.
  • Possibilities for the future are locked into the patterns of today's reality.
  • An answer has a short shelf life, but a good question can serve forever. 

Do these assumptions shock or confirm your own beliefs about organizational change and performance? If they shock you, then get ready for a new, more productive, way to see the world. If they confirm your beliefs, then you can build on success as you articulate, share, and expand your understanding of complex human systems.

A deeper understanding of human systems dynamics will change how you perceive and take effective action to improve performance.

During this seven-part series, you will:

  • Approach human performance in new and more productive ways.
  • Learn tricks to help you manage projects in unpredictable situations.
  • Manage performance when you cannot predict or control objectives and outcomes.
  • Make and implement plans that help you balance stability and surprise.
  • Design communication systems that leverage the inherent capacity of your community.
  • Prepare yourself and your staff for the future with strategies that build adaptive capacity.
  • Leverage virtual communications to improve both process and outcomes.
  • Establish relationships in a network of shared inquiry around the world.

This workshop is a must for professionals in the public and private sectors, higher education and government. Take a look at our webinar series Strategy to Action: the Power of HSD.  These seven sessions continue the learning about thinking and working differently with individuals, teams, organizations, and communities.

Introduction to HSD (free intro session)
Session 1: HSD and Project Management
Session 2: HSD and Performance Management
Session 3: HSD and Planning for Change
Session 4: HSD and Communications.
Session 5: HSD and Training and Development
Session 6: HSD and Virtual Teams

Finding the Fix That Fits: Human Systems Dynamics at Work

Package Includes: On-Demand Webinar: Series of 6 1-hour programs, plus introductory session and overview by Glenda Eoyang.

Guide: Glenda Eoyang, Ph.D.
Cost: $99 - Purchase the Full Series
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Change is changing. Words like resilience, adaptation, emergence, and transformation are liberally sprinkled throughout the latest theories and tools for change. But, what do these words mean? How can you see and influence the complex patterns that shape the future for individuals, teams, organizations, and communities today? How can you increase performance in systems where:

  • change is constant?
  • relationships are complicated?
  • communications are virtual?

In this complex and fast-moving world, there is no one solution that’s good enough. What works one day in one situation may be worse than nothing at another time and place. To find the “fix that fits,” you need to understand what drives change. You need to have tools and techniques that help you generate options for action and pick the one that has the best chance of success right now. You need a theory base that helps you learn from the past to take action in the present that will inform the future you desire. You need human systems dynamics.

Join Glenda Eoyang and the HSD Institute in our latest webinar series “Finding the Fix that Fits: Human Systems Dynamics at Work”. Find the fix that fits when you:

  • Recognize when and why your old tools fail
  • Name the patterns that shape complex change for you and your team
  • Assess your situation and explore out-of-the-box options for action
  • Develop a theory of change that embraces familiar tools while suggesting radical innovations

These six sessions form a foundation for thinking and working differently with individuals, teams, organizations, and communities.

Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools

Package includes: On Demand Webinar: 2 hour program with overview and introduction by Glenda Eoyang

e-Book: Coping With Chaos: Seven Simple Tools
Guide: Glenda H. Eoyang
Cost: $49 - Purchase 

This pre-recorded web-based seminar comes with the e-book of the same title.

Learn how seven simple tools from chaos and complexity help generate new options for action as you address your most sticky issues. With stories and examples, Dr. Eoyang brings to life the powerful and beautiful images that shape emergent coherence in complex systems. You will learn how to integrate the seven simple chaos tools into your own practice. The tools include:

  • Butterfly effects
  • Boundaries
  • Transforming feedback loops
  • Fractals
  • Attractors
  • Self-organization
  • Coupling

The accompanying e-book gives a rich and in-depth look into each of these complex patterns and how they help you see and influence the human systems around you.

Exchange: Design for Coordinated Action

Package includes: On Demand Webinar: 1-hour program with overview and introduction by Glenda Eoyang

Guide: Glenda H. Eoyang
Cost: $39 - Purchase  

How many of your clients have problems they describe as "communication issues?” Human systems dynamics offers an analytical way to consider connections among people, which are often recognized but seldom addressed. In this one-hour pre-recorded webinar, you will learn new ways to assess current connections and design new and more adaptive exchanges among individuals and groups. This approach lets you focus your communication energy and design exchanges that are most effective for a given relationship, content, and time.