Introduction
An opportunity to get you and your organization realigned for sustained success.
Who should attend?
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CEOs & Entrepreneurs
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Board Directors
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Innovation and Change Champions
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Research and Development and Product Development Executives
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Members of the Senior Management Team and Division Heads (SMT).
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High Potential Managers Being Groomed for Executive Roles
We’re in the midst of the most challenging business environment in decades, one that is ushering in new and yet-to-be-revealed business realities that will define the marketplace for years to come. The challenge for business executives is to not only weather the storm, but to come out of it poised to leverage the new opportunities that will inevitably be created—even as we struggle to figure out what they are. Those who do that successfully will gain huge competitive advantages, while those who resist will struggle to survive. The skills demanded are as different from routine business practices, as the demands are different from routine business challenges.
 This challenge is not restricted to the private sector either, the public and voluntary sectors face just the same challenges; doing more with less resource, managing change in turbulent times, improving efficiency and effectiveness, assessing and managing the needs of service users and stakeholders; the challenge to survive and thrive is just as great.
Through a process of self-assessment, exercises, dialogue and skill-building you will discover strategies to maximize your personal capacity to adapt and innovate and find fresh insights…and provide the leadership your organization needs to do the same.
You will:
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Explore innovation and adaptability as a personal discipline
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Discover specific strategies to boost your innovation capacity and that of your team and organization
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Learn to recognize patterns of organizational culture, and anticipate how those patterns may promote or undermine innovation, adaptability and your future business success.
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Gain techniques to generate fresh insights with the power to reinvent your business and drive breakthrough outcomes.
The retreat will have two components:
The Innovator’s Mindset
A Self-Assessment and Catalyst for Personal Impact
You will experience a new research-based self-assessment (Download PDF for more info ). Think of it as a diagnostic utility for your personal operating system. As with a computer, this operating system functions in the background out of sight, yet it impacts how well someone’s personal “programs” perform. A clear understanding of a computer’s operating system is essential to keeping it running at optimum performance…and so it is with people.
We all hold mental models that we use to represent how the world works, often subconsciously and without fully understanding their implications. They are powerful drivers of our values and behaviours. This assessment enables us to identify these hidden mental models, making it a highly effective tool for personal, team and organizational development.
Innovation Critical
A Master Class on Leading Innovation and Change
Getting yourself aligned is only half the challenge. It’s just an important to get your organization aligned. This interactive session is about identifying, developing and promoting the critical behaviours and mindset that enable us to collectively innovate and adapt to change. It’s about leading innovation by leveraging some powerful personal and organizational patterns. These patterns have the power to make us dramatically more effective, as individuals and as organizations. Or leave us trapped in our own assumptions, unable to recognize the alternatives available to us.
Facilitator
 Dennis Stauffer is an internationally recognized thought leader on the behaviours that drive innovation and personal effectiveness. He’s the founder of Insight Fusion, LLC, a speaking, training and consulting firm that works with companies of all sizes to help individuals, teams and organizations boost their capacity to innovate and succeed.
Dennis’ work includes research into the measurable skills and behaviours that promote innovation, creativity and adaptability. That work led to the creation of the Stauffer Iterative Thinking Assessment (SITA), a uniquely powerful self-assessment technology. Dennis is an Emmy award-winning journalist and former Business Editor. His most recent book, Thinking Clockwise, A Field Guide for the Innovative Leader received a 2006 Fresh Voices book award. Thinking Clockwise is in its third U.S. printing and is currently available in five languages.
Based in the United States, Dennis delivers keynotes, workshops and other interventions for clients throughout the U.S. and abroad.
What are the Benefits and Outcomes?
To change your business, you need to change the way you think about your business. You need to discover new insights, change some of your mental models and perhaps revise many long-held assumptions and beliefs. That’s both a personal and an organizational skill set that this retreat will help you to cultivate. You’ll leave reinvigorated with a new sense of business competence and potential, and strategies to reach the crucial insights you need...and to implement them
Interested
You can register online now by clicking the button below or for assistance call Patricia Williamson on (028) 9073 7950 or email patricia.williamson@cforc.org
If you would like to discuss how this event could meet your needs in more detail then please contact Adrian Gundy on adrian.gundy@cforc.org
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