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Take an in-person Issue Mapping Course with SevenSigma Business Solutions!
Testimonials
Your guidance in showing me how to apply issue mapping was pivotal on more than one occasion over the past year in helping people around me find their way through confusion to solvable and usable solutions. Thank you for that.
Neil McEvoy
Change Engineer
Former President of
Providence Healthcare
"A marvelous, fun and stimulating webinar series. . . The CogNexus webinars are master classes in issue and dialogue mapping and Jeff Conklin is the mappers' "Yo-Yo Ma."
David Price
www.debategraph.org
Dialogue and Issue Mapping have had a profound impact on how I go about working with my clients and the quality of the outcomes that are produced. The Issue Mapping workshop is an essential piece to developing proficiency in dealing with the problem wickedness that afflicts organisations of all kinds. I urge anyone who is remotely interested in problem solving, project management and collaboration to attend this workshop. You will be able to take the skills that you learn and apply it to almost any situation or discipline. Jeff and Lizzie are both excellent teachers and are very accessible and happy to answer questions during and between lessons. In short it works!
Paul Culmsee
Seven Sigma Business Solutions
the information and practice on IBIS - as well as how to think more logically - was very valuable. I'll be a smarter and better thinker because of the course and it will definitely help me to help groups think better! Thanks so much!
Kelcy Benedict
Facilitation Plus, Inc.
For 15 years my company has been involved in providing technical decision support to government and corporations. Our core competency is helping companies choose between alternatives, and communicate the whys of their decision to others. We have always felt that we did not have an adequate framework for capturing and supporting the early part of the decision process - from the time an organization first realizes that they have a decision opportunity, through their process to the point that they recognize possible solutions and are ready to choose amongst them. We were intrigued by Jeff Conklins work in Issue Mapping. Taking the Issue Mapping Webinar Series has made us confident that Issue Mapping is the answer for us, and the Series gave us a full immersion in both the principals and techniques of Issue Mapping. The interaction with other professionals taking the Webinar Series, the well structured homework and prompt and detailed feedback from the Cognexus team provided a very fast and efficient learning experience. The Webinar Series was time and money well spent.
Philip Murphy
CEO, InfoHarvest Inc.
I was put on a project for two days very recently where I helped lead a 2 day client engagement with a colleague that hadn't had much experience running such sessions. At the end of the 2 day requirements gathering sessions the client commented on how impressed he was with the use of the collaborative display and how logical and easy the whole process was. When my colleague presented our proposed plan and approach some weeks later, the client once again reiterated his praise for the session and how open and collaborative it was. Dialogue Mapping keeps winning for me the more and more that I use it.
Andrew Jolly, IT Consultant and Issue Mapping Webinar Graduate
"I found the process both challenging and worthwhile. One of the real highlights for me in this course was gaining further insights into the different ways people learn and the tools that assist that learning to be disseminated.
Barbara Power, Director Health Performance Council Secretariat South Australia & Issue Mapping Webinar Series Graduate
Self-Paced Issue Mapping Course
CogNexus is pleased to offer our Self-Paced Issue Mapping Course, which is based on our previously offered Issue Mapping Webinar Series. The Self-Paced Course enables participants to listen to recordings of our previous live classes and then to interact with a live instructor for homework assignments and questions.
The benefit of the Self-Paced Course is that it provides exactly the same information as the live course plus feedback from a real instructor, but also allows you to complete the Course according to your own schedule. Find out more by reading our FAQ.
This course covers 2 of the 3 components of Dialogue Mapping and is thus a powerful entry to the world of building shared understanding. It is also one of the options for fulfilling the prerequisite for the Dialogue Mapping Workshop.
Self-Paced Issue Mapping Course - FAQ
1) Who will your Self-Paced Course help and what will they learn?
Our Self-Paced Issue Mapping Course is for busy people involved in highly complex projects including leaders, consultants, facilitators, organizational development professionals, change agents, managers and engineers who want to:
be able to lead a group to a robust decision that endures and that inspires consistent actions and outcomes despite the cross currents of hidden and competing agendas get traction in the "swamp" of a project that is cursed with both technical and social complexity have real dialogue without getting bogged down in politics, personalities or an overload of information help a group get its bearings in the fog of confusion, contradictory objectives and changing constraints be able to focus a group's energy in a way that boosts collective intelligence: the capacity to work with ambiguity and equivocal knowledge be able to capture and organize a large volume of unstructured information to create a coherent foundation for thinking and learning in an organization The Self-Paced Course is designed to advance learning about new ways to work with complex challenges and societal issues and to teach better ways to visualize and make sense of issues. It is also one of the options for fulfilling the pre-requisite for the Dialogue Mapping Workshop.
2) What will I get from your Self-Paced Course?
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learn how to create great maps issue maps that are clear, coherent, and inviting immediately start using Issue Mapping effectively in your work and life; the course will focus on practical experience and map building command a rich range of options for publishing and sharing maps lead with maps: create direction, momentum, and energy with issue maps quickly and effectively do critical analysis in dynamic situations organize unstructured information and discover patterns and connections within it It will also give you a deeper understanding of: the fundamentals of IBIS and Compendium the structural patterns that give clarity and power to issue maps how decision rationale is represented in a map map evolution - managing time and entropy in issue maps making critical thinking visible for inspection and analysis 3) How is the Self-Paced Course held?
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The Self-Paced Course is based on recorded material from a previous live series of classes. Once you begin the course, you receive the initial homework and link to the first recording, along with the next homework assignment. Once you complete that homework, you are provided with the link to the next recording.
The material covered in the self-paced version is exactly the same as the former "live" version. The personal attention to reviewing your homework remains the same. CogNexus staff are available by email or phone to answer any questions you have, at any time.
The major benefit to you, as a student, is that you can adapt the course to your schedule. You can view the recorded material at your convenience rather than having to be at the computer for the course at a fixed date and time. If you want to move quickly through the material, doing the homework and getting feedback quickly, you can! If you want to take your time, you also can... however we ask that you complete the series within 6 months of the starting time.
4) What sort of interaction is there with the CogNexus staff?
The course is based on recordings of previous live classes. However, you will still receive personalized feedback on each homework assignment. CogNexus instructors will be available via email and telephone for any questions you may have along the way.
5) What is the cost?
The cost for the Self-Paced Issue Mapping Course is $895. This fee is non-refundable.
6) How much is homework is there?
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The course is about 1/2 recording time and 1/2 homework. We estimate that in addition to the 6, 3-hour long recordings that you will have about 3-5 hours of homework in between each lesson.
The homework assignments teach IBIS, the question-based language used to create effective maps, and Compendium, the free software used to actually create the maps. You create maps and send them to us. We then give you individualized feedback and send them back to you. We will meet your learning efforts. This means that we give feedback to people based on their individual level of commitment. If you are someone who wants to dig in, we will happily meet you in "the dirt"!
The homework will, at minimum, help you become a more effective thinker. At maximum, it will help you gain a tool that can catapult you to new levels of success in your meetings and client outcomes as well as your contribution to helping work with big problems in our world. It will also get your ready for our Dialogue Mapping Workshop, the next level of course offering at the CogNexus Institute.
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