Learning Organization Practitioners' Network (LOPN)
    A network from Singapore connected to SoL Global
Learning Organization Practitioners'
Core Competency Workshop Scopes
Level
Workshop title
Duration
Target Audience
Scope
Desired Outcome
Module 1
Novice
Learning Organization
Building Foundations
Workshop

the work, briefly
introduces the five
disciplines and provides a
good introduction to a
quarter of the 60 tools
offered by Dr Peter
Senge.  Module 1 lays a
strong foundations for
subsequent modules of
the core competency
workshop series.  Whets
the appetite for future
workshop modules.
3 days
With at least six years
working experience.  
Desired 10 years.

Has not attended any
of LOPN's workshops

Participants are
tasked to lead efforts
in implementing the
Learning Organisation
or charged with
handling projects using
the tools of the five
disciplines of LO

Participants are
managers of their
respectives areas of
management
Context setting
3-legged stool
Framework of the 60 tools
Structural Tension
Systems Thinking building
blocks -
Reinforcing /
Balancing Loops & FtB
Archetype
The 11 Laws of complexity
Mental Models - Learning
to
recognise personal
frames that affect what
we see and the actions
we take
Ladder of Inference
Theory of Action
Introduction to Personal
Mastery
Build a deep
understanding of
the building blocks
of Learning
Organisaton
Module 2
Beginner
Learning to deepen
Systemic Thinking
Learning to see the
world systemically

Covers up to ten
archetypes of Systems
Thinking (identified by Dr
Peter Senge and his
team, a work that is
derivative of the field of
Systems Dynamics).  
Works with real-life case
studies from around the
world to help participants
identify systemic
archetypes that cause
most of the dynamic
complexities organizations
face.
3 days
Prerequisite: Have
completed LOPN Level
1 workshop
Learn how the system
archetype templates were
discovered
Help to train our hands to
draw circles of causality
Learn ways to remember
and recognise
the ten
system archetypes
Learn to diagnose
complexity and take
high-leverage
interventions
Use case studies to learn
to
apply the system
archetypes
Understanding the nature
of a full-blown complexity
- the
"Onion"
Develop the
sensitivities to
apply system
archetypes in
real-life situations.
 Sensitivies that
cannot be gained
by simply applying
the tools outside
the workshop
Module 3
Advanced
Beginner
Learning to facilitate
Generative
Conversations

Prepares a leader to shift
conversations that are
defensive (works by Dr
Chris Argyris on which
Senge developed the
disciplines of Mental
models and Team
Learning) to become
reflective, productive and
eventually generative
conversations.
3 days
Prerequisite: Have
completed LOPN Level
2 workshop
Skillful discussion
Theory of Action
Defensive conversations

Model I
Consequenes of Model I:
Defensive Routines,
Skilled Unawareness,
Skilled Incompetence
Check-in

Model II
Deep Listening
Heuristics of Model II
Protocols for Balancing
Advocacy and Inquiry

Learning to facilitate
Case Study work
Stages of dialogue
Practices of dialogue
4-player model
Internalize the
skills of productive
conversations
Module 4
Competent
Learning to design
System-wide
Interventions
(Integration of the five
disciplines)

This is an advanced  
workshop for leaders /
persons charged with
large-scale systemic  
interventions.  Explores
the skills and disciplines in
learning to map future
shared realities of one's
organizations by drawing
on systemic insights and
learning to lead inspiring
teams.

Theories of the Vision
Deployment Matrix (Dr
Daniel Kim) and Theory U
(Dr Otto Scharmer) offers
to illustrate the
integration of the five
disciplines as well as learn
to apply the theories
within organisational
contexts, particularly in
mapping high-leverage
strategic interventions.
3 days
Prerequisite: Have
completed LOPN Level
2 workshop
Levels of Perspective
Personal Mastery -

cultivate
ways of thinking
to obtain our deepest
aspirations
Principles of creating
personal and
shared vision
Vision Deployment Matrix:
Integrating the five
disciplines to form shared
visions:
Key Success Loop
Theory U
Project demonstration
Application
Learn to integrate
the use of the five
disciplines in
real-life situations
Application
workshop
series for
corporate
planners
Designing Retreats
Advanced Beginner

Prepares you to mindfully
design corporate retreats
for your unit or
organization.
1 day
Prerequisite: Have
completed up to Level
3 workshop
Appreciative Inquiry (an
application of Shared
Vision)
Key Success Loop (KSL -
an application of Systems
Thinking)
Vision Deployment Matrix
The "Onion"
Strategic Intervention
Planning
Putting it together:
Ingredients of a
successful corporate
retreat
Learn to apply the
five disciplines in
corporate planning
Presentation of
the
eGuide
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