The CEO Programme
WSA's CEO™ Programme and its short form "Creativity That Works" is:
| Based on recent research in the management and cognitive sciences, | ||
| Developed for individuals and corporations, and | ||
| Structured to help both private and public sector corporations enhance Total Factor Productivity, manage change, and instill Creativity and Innovation. |
Corporations are facing crises, and an increasing competitive and rapidly changing environment. They are discovering that their established systems and traditional approaches will not help their enterprises attain or sustain success in the turbulent years ahead. As one CEO puts it: It's not enough to run like cheetahs organizations need to soar like eagles!
Intuitively, decision makers realize the need to promote creativity and innovation in their corporations in order to compete in the new global environment. But how?
It is easy to encourage and develop creativity and innovation in a vacuum. Scores of programmes and books address this issue with fairly good success. The real question is: how do you create a climate for innovation without producing chaos or disrupting what already works in the company. How does a company balance productivity and creativity; innovation and organization; flexibility and control? Specifically, how does it encourage both individual initiative and collaborative community?
Unfortunately, it is not easy for companies to find an intervention programme that presents an integrated and balanced approach.
Whole Systems Asia's CEO™ Programme provides scientifically-based integrated organizing principles for understanding individuals, creativity, entrepreneurship, and organizations; as well as tested tools and techniques to enhance:
| individual creativity and teamwork/team-building, | ||
| organizational productivity and innovations, and | ||
| capacity to cope with crisis, growth and change. |
Organizing Principles
"In... the confusion occasioned by overchoice, the most powerful, useful 'super-product' of all is an organizing principle for one's life."
- A. Toffler, Future Shock
The CEO™ Programme is based on the organizing principles provided by three powerful ideas:
| 1. | DAVInCI Model, from Sperry's Nobel Prize research, & the works of Paul McClean and Ned Herrmann. | |
| 2. | The universal Creative Process, from studies of the creatively eminent. | |
| 3. | Situational MetacognitionTM, developed in Harvard University by the integration of cross-field research. SM identified the optimal thinking at each step of the creative and enterprise process, and each stage in organizational growth. It enables an understanding of one's strengths and weaknesses in creativity, and one's profile as an entrepreneur, a manager or leader. |
The DAVInCI Model
From these powerful principles and from the experiences of successful organizations, a comprehensive range of tools and skills have been derived, providing managers and professionals with workable ways to enhance their personal and professional effectiveness. E.G. they will learn how to:
| Develop both internal and external Helicopter Vision | ||
| Work with and Integrate complex and novel ideas | ||
| Use Powerful Techniques for creativity and productivity | ||
| Apply simple tools for generating and processing ideas | ||
| Effect individual and organizational Paradigm Shifts, and | ||
| Form and Manage Creative Teams, and more... |
Purpose of the Program
In addition to acquiring new concepts, tools and techniques, participants will be able to better understand and integrate a wide range of pertinent, but hitherto unconnected and even divergent issues:
| Organization & Creativity | ||
| Management & Leadership | ||
| Break-through & Stability | ||
| Innovation & Productivity | ||
| Entrepreneurship & Growth | ||
| Peak Performance & Partnership |
Partners will be able to understand and benchmark their individual profiles in creativity, entrepreneurship, leadership and management. Workshop activities are customized so that participants can apply concepts and tools, and experience results from Day One back at their jobs.
"The DAVInCI Model has been a most enriching and rewarding experience for all of us. We believe that your facilitation will encourage all of our staff to think and work creatively, thus enabling and fostering improved work culture and increased focus on our goals and vision."
- Div. Director, National Agency
Benefits
Implementation of the CEO™ Programme will help organizations breakout of self-defeating patterns to become more productive, innovative and adaptable to change.
Participants, ranging from senior executives to middle managers, team members and R&D professionals will gain:
| new understanding of self and others--with a common language and framework for enhancing communication and collaboration | ||
| a new way of optimizing professional and personal development--to help achieve organizational goals and personal dreams | ||
| an integrated principle to organize their concepts and tools and develop new core competencies to cope with novel tasks and situations and lead in fostering growth and creativity in the organization. |
"It opened up a whole new range of possibilities in my way of thinking and solving problems."
- Executive, MHA
"Helps me expand my horizons, self-developmental. Very instructive, eye-opening, challenging and mentally stimulating."
- Assistant Director, MIT
Who Should Attend?
The CEO™ Programme is designed for top- and middle-level* managers and professionals across various functions: executive and administrative, R&D, manufacturing and production, marketing and sales, creative support, training and human resource development.
* A large group version is available for support staff and line workers.
Special Features
Participants will compete a DAVInCI Brain Profile - Situational Metacognitive Instrument (SMI) survey - and a pre-work questionnaire before the workshop. These enable the instructors to know the participant profiles and thus customize the workshop activities to their specific needs and interests. Results are also fed back to participants on the very first day of the workshop to facilitate self-understanding and benchmarking.
Unique content features include:
| Understanding and enhancement of personal and team creativity | ||
| Cross-cultural comparison of creativity: East & West: How can we be the best of both worlds? | ||
| Using IT to facilitate Continuous Innovation and Organizational Development (Optional introduction to GroupSystems ThinkTank) |
"The workshop was fun and entertaining. I like the interplay, interactivity."
- MD, Multi-national Corporation
DaVinCi Model
The DAVInCI Model is derived from the leading research on the brain and cognition:
| Roger Sperry's Nobel Prize research | ||
| Paul MaClean's Triune Brain research | ||
| Ned Herrmann's 4 Quardrant Whole Brain integration | ||
| Research on the Auto Control and Spinal Cord functions | ||
| John Kao's studies at the Harvard Business School |
Divergent Thinking : Imaginative; Idea-based Visualizing
Analytical Thinking : Problem Solving; Fact-based Mathematics
Values Thinking : Altruistic; Priority-based Principled
Insular Thinking : Organized; Detailed-centred Systematic
Communicative : Emotional; Feeling-centred Inter-personal
Impulsive : Sensual; Task-centred Kinesthetic
DAVInCI Situational Metacognitive Index (SMI)™
Whole Systems Asia's DAVInCI SMI Survey provides a personal profile indicating: thinking preferences among the six DAVInCI modes, the modes that are excessively developed and those that are deficient, the presence of creeping dominance, and the Situational Metacognitive Index, which measures metacognition as well as how situational is one's thinking – the critical factor for Creative Productivity. The profile may also be used to identify creative potential and for forming and managing teams.
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