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COURSE OVERVIEW KILLING COMPLEXITY
Killing Complexity: How to Embrace Simplification and Get to the Work That Matters COURSE OVERVIEW
Killing Complexity is designed to help participants move beyond the feelings of frustration and futility that come with so much unproductive work in today’s corporate world, to create habits that enable us to focus on simplicity and do more valuable work.
ABOUT
By learning how to identify unnecessary tasks, eliminate redundancies, and make simplification a habit, you’ll quickly learn to recognize which activities are timesucks and which create lasting value. By eliminating lowvalue work, you’ll feel less overwhelmed, more empowered, and able to spend each day doing things that matter.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
● Know how to identify areas for simplification ● Understand which tasks take the most
(unnecessary) time both individually and as a team
● Learn techniques to make simplification a habit ● Start to create a culture of simplification and
exemplifying its practices
ACTIVITIES AND TOOLS
Activities and tools are centered around the five key areas of the simplification process, designed to eradicate the unnecessary and selfimposed complexity we often create.
● Awareness Building: Defining complexity, meaningful work, and simplification benefits
● Identifying: Simplicity Barriers and Behaviors
● Prioritizing: Killing Complexity ● Executing: Embracing MURA,
Tactics for Simplification ● Habitforming: Personal Complexity
Quiz, Developing a Simplification Code of Conduct
AUDIENCE
● Leadership teams ● Intact business teams LENGTH
● Fullday
“ It was great! How we define what’s ‘simple’ is key… This makes me think differently about how I can do work. ”
Fidelity Investments “ I’m inspired to escape complexity and embrace simplicity, so I can engage in more valuable work. ”
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