What is it?
The new RPM Techniques Programme is a series of ten interactive workshops that will explore Systems Thinking for projects. We will focus on how to build resilience and contribute to adaptation in the face of the crises facing societies around the world. Each session will highlight one principle from the Manifesto for Responsible Project Management and then investigate selected practical techniques. There will be opportunities to practice one or more techniques, with reflection and dialogue to deepen learning.
Each workshop is booked individually, allowing you to choose the sessions most relevant to you.
Overall, the Programme supports personal growth that connects knowledge, beliefs, values, and action for all four quadrants of the competency framework for RPM (Thompson and Williams, 2024).
Responsible Project Management In partnership with The Schumacher Institute.
Why attend?
Projects and project management create the future. Yet, projects are frequently managed as a set of siloed activities and outputs, and it is time to see projects differently. RPM aims to support individuals and organisations re-imagine project management as a series of interventions into a set of existing systems that bring about change and progress towards a better future. A future that enables people and nature to flourish together. Systems thinking is at the heart of such change and underpins RPM.
This series of workshops is new for 2025. Each session will introduce and practice one or more tool or technique for systems thinking to support new ways of thinking about projects and project management. You will be encouraged to apply the techniques in a practical context that you are familiar with, past or present, to share ideas and to explore management challenges from a range of perspectives.
To optimise your experience, you can book and attend the workshops that are most relevant to you.
Delivery
Each workshop is delivered as one highly interactive 2 hour online session. Facilitated, interconnected activities are used to integrate principles, concepts and models, with reflection and dialogue designed to promote personal learning. Participants are encouraged to focus on addressing current challenges in their own practice.
Early booking is recommended because the sessions are interactive and numbers are limited.
17th February 2025 16:30-18:30. Principle 1: Purpose
The objective of this first of 10 workshops is to introduce systems thinking and explore how project context, complexity and interconnections among projects, people, and natural resources impact perspectives of project scope and purpose. We will develop context diagrams to identify and understand the intentions underpinning projects from different perspectives.
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