Lp748 week 3

Topic_YourWickedProblemJournalPart3.pdf

Due Jun 7 2 points

Your Wicked Problem Journal, Part 3 Your Wicked Problem Journal, Part 3

Choosing Your Wicked Problem: Stakeholders, Influence, & Systems Dynamics.

This week formally begins your Wicked Problem Strategy Presentation process. You will now choose the wicked problem you plan to explore throughout the remainder of the course. Your weekly journal entries will help you gradually build the components of your final presentation.

For this journal, you're asked to continue the process. Reflect on the Influence model and perhaps skim the Influence interview with Dr. Cohen. Using this week’s readings, the Influence model, and the case study, reflect on the systems and relational dynamics surrounding your chosen wicked problem.

Respond thoughtfully to 3 - 5 of the prompts below. Integrate course concepts, systems thinking, stakeholder perspectives, and personal reflection where appropriate.

Prompts:

1. Reflect on your own style of influencing. What is your reaction to the model in light of your own style? Which parts of the model can you see working for you, and which parts would be tricky?

2. Set yourself a few goals for how you want to influence people when you start working on your Wicked Problem. In particular, name whatever challenges you think you might have in adopting the influence model and think about what you might do to mitigate those challenges.

3. Reflect briefly on your own tendencies in influence. How do you typically respond when navigating disagreement, tension, or competing priorities?

4. How might collaborative influence matter more than positional authority in addressing this issue?

5. What systems constraints or unintended consequences might complicate efforts toward change?

Reply

Course Chat 

Topic_Week3Week4Extended_Non-traditionalDB_LiveQuadDiscussions_.pdf

Review what happened in the case Why did the lunch lady succeed where others failed? What the lunch lady applying some of the Influence model principles? What else might we learn about engaging with wicked problems from the lunch lady?

Prompts for Week 4:

Multiple Perspectives and Wicked School Lunch Systems

For week 4 we continue exploring the school lunch system through the lenses of systems thinking, multiple perspectives, ethical complexity, and inclusion. Using the Lunch Lady case, Meadows’ systems thinking concepts, De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats, and this week’s readings on school meal reform and equity, we will examine how wicked problems are shaped by systems relationships, lived experiences, and competing stakeholder realities.

In your Quad DB, or DB post, consider the following:

1. Apply at least four of De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats to the school lunch system. How might different stakeholders interpret the issue differently depending on the lens being used?

2. Drawing from Meadows’ systems thinking concepts, identify at least two systems dynamics, feedback loops, or unintended consequences connected to school meal systems. How do changes in one part of the system influence other parts of the system over time?

3. Reflect on the ethical and inclusionary dimensions of the school lunch system. How do issues such as poverty, stigma, food insecurity, race, socioeconomic inequality, disability access, or cultural identity shape the way students and families experience the system?

4. Consider the idea that systems designed to help people can also unintentionally create barriers or harm. What examples of this do you see within school meal systems?

5. Finally, reflect on leadership within wicked systems. What makes leadership difficult when systems involve competing realities, institutional constraints, and ethical tensions?

As you engage with classmates, focus on exploring complexity, systems relationships, and multiple perspectives rather than persuading others toward one “correct” solution.

Reply

Course Chat 

Topic_YourWickedProblemJournalPart3.pdf

Due Jun 7 2 points

Your Wicked Problem Journal, Part 3 Your Wicked Problem Journal, Part 3

Choosing Your Wicked Problem: Stakeholders, Influence, & Systems Dynamics.

This week formally begins your Wicked Problem Strategy Presentation process. You will now choose the wicked problem you plan to explore throughout the remainder of the course. Your weekly journal entries will help you gradually build the components of your final presentation.

For this journal, you're asked to continue the process. Reflect on the Influence model and perhaps skim the Influence interview with Dr. Cohen. Using this week’s readings, the Influence model, and the case study, reflect on the systems and relational dynamics surrounding your chosen wicked problem.

Respond thoughtfully to 3 - 5 of the prompts below. Integrate course concepts, systems thinking, stakeholder perspectives, and personal reflection where appropriate.

Prompts:

1. Reflect on your own style of influencing. What is your reaction to the model in light of your own style? Which parts of the model can you see working for you, and which parts would be tricky?

2. Set yourself a few goals for how you want to influence people when you start working on your Wicked Problem. In particular, name whatever challenges you think you might have in adopting the influence model and think about what you might do to mitigate those challenges.

3. Reflect briefly on your own tendencies in influence. How do you typically respond when navigating disagreement, tension, or competing priorities?

4. How might collaborative influence matter more than positional authority in addressing this issue?

5. What systems constraints or unintended consequences might complicate efforts toward change?

Reply

Course Chat 

Topic_Week3Week4Extended_Non-traditionalDB_LiveQuadDiscussions_.pdf

Review what happened in the case Why did the lunch lady succeed where others failed? What the lunch lady applying some of the Influence model principles? What else might we learn about engaging with wicked problems from the lunch lady?

Prompts for Week 4:

Multiple Perspectives and Wicked School Lunch Systems

For week 4 we continue exploring the school lunch system through the lenses of systems thinking, multiple perspectives, ethical complexity, and inclusion. Using the Lunch Lady case, Meadows’ systems thinking concepts, De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats, and this week’s readings on school meal reform and equity, we will examine how wicked problems are shaped by systems relationships, lived experiences, and competing stakeholder realities.

In your Quad DB, or DB post, consider the following:

1. Apply at least four of De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats to the school lunch system. How might different stakeholders interpret the issue differently depending on the lens being used?

2. Drawing from Meadows’ systems thinking concepts, identify at least two systems dynamics, feedback loops, or unintended consequences connected to school meal systems. How do changes in one part of the system influence other parts of the system over time?

3. Reflect on the ethical and inclusionary dimensions of the school lunch system. How do issues such as poverty, stigma, food insecurity, race, socioeconomic inequality, disability access, or cultural identity shape the way students and families experience the system?

4. Consider the idea that systems designed to help people can also unintentionally create barriers or harm. What examples of this do you see within school meal systems?

5. Finally, reflect on leadership within wicked systems. What makes leadership difficult when systems involve competing realities, institutional constraints, and ethical tensions?

As you engage with classmates, focus on exploring complexity, systems relationships, and multiple perspectives rather than persuading others toward one “correct” solution.

Reply

Course Chat 

Topic_YourWickedProblemJournalPart3.pdf

Topic_Week3Week4Extended_Non-traditionalDB_LiveQuadDiscussions_.pdf

Week3_ReadingsandVideos_LP748-L1_LeadershipandSystemApproachestoWickedProblems.pdf

Topic_YourWickedProblemJournalPart3.pdf

Topic_Week3Week4Extended_Non-traditionalDB_LiveQuadDiscussions_.pdf

Week3_ReadingsandVideos_LP748-L1_LeadershipandSystemApproachestoWickedProblems.pdf

Week3_ReadingsandVideos_LP748-L1_LeadershipandSystemApproachestoWickedProblems.pdf

Topic_YourWickedProblemJournalPart3.pdf

Topic_Week3Week4Extended_Non-traditionalDB_LiveQuadDiscussions_.pdf

Week3_ReadingsandVideos_LP748-L1_LeadershipandSystemApproachestoWickedProblems.pdf

Topic_YourWickedProblemJournalPart3.pdf

Topic_Week3Week4Extended_Non-traditionalDB_LiveQuadDiscussions_.pdf

Week3_ReadingsandVideos_LP748-L1_LeadershipandSystemApproachestoWickedProblems.pdf