Economy Courses

At the end of this programme, participants will be able to:

• Mention various types of Exponential Organisations (ExOs)

• Enumerate the appropriate technology needed to improve their organizations

• Learn to develop their Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP)

• Understand what they need to embark on their own radical transformation

• Identify the characteristics of Exponential Organisations (ExOs) and how to tailor it to their own organisation

• Differentiate between incremental and Exponential thinking

Course Outline

• What is meant by “disruption”

• A dirsuption-Ready checklist

• Developing the “disruptive mindset”-create, engage & adapt

• Developing the skills for disruptive leadership

• Design for disruption (DFD)

• Scanning for (TOTs) Threats, Opportunities and trends

• Identifying potential disruptors

• Who is more likely to be disrupted

• Simulation: Experiencing “disruption”

• Leading with courage:The disruptors "edge"

• A disruptive innovation action-plan

At the end of this programme, participants will be able to:

• Describe what is meant by “disruption”

• Develop a “disruptive" mindset and the skills for disruptive leadership

• Scan for threats, opportunities and trends

• Identify potential disruptors/technologies

• Know who is more likely to be disrupted

• Evaluate their journey towards courageous leadership

• Create a disruptive innovation action-plan.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Outline the mindset adjustments for a Design Thinker

• Mention the differences between Design Thinking and conventional problem solving

• Explain the importance of uncovering citizens/end-user’ unmet, unarticulated and undermet needs

• Enumerate the methods, tools and activities needed from framing-up the design challenge to getting it to the decision makers for implementation/users.

• Describe how the various tools, techniques and templates are applied to deliver users’ needs

• Explain how innovative solutions rooted in people’s actual needs are formulated

• Outline how Design Thinking works in the organization

At the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Discuss the importance of being comfortable with change and open to novel ideas

• Describe how to see things from another person's point of view and sense what matters most to that person

• Mention the advantages of helping co-workers develop their skills

• Interprete office politics more accurately

• Appreciate the self-motivation gained by exceeding their own standards of excellence

• Remain optimistic in the most difficult of circumstances

• Demonstrate better persuasiveness

• Analyze the feedback process

At the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Analyze key management functions

• Discuss performance appraisals systems

• Assess ethical issues and defining moments

• Evaluate the need for personal mastery; EQ, IQ and SQ

• Describe stress and how to management it

• Mention time management techniques

• Describe communication skills in different culture contexts

• Discuss the essentials of report writing.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

 Describe the characteristics and behaviour of complex, adaptive systems, and the implications for the role of management

 Identify repeating patterns, or models, in systems according to the behavior of the system over time

 Involve stakeholders in cooperative action to impact the results of a system

 Plot the cause-and-effect relationship of issues and decisions associated with them

 Investigate the nature and role of leverage points for systemic interventions.

 Apply concepts of systems thinking and complexity to real life management challenges.

 Identify root causes rather than the symptoms of a problem

 Analyze positive and negative systems feedback and explain the role of feedback in system dynamics

 Collaborate with others analyzing and improving systems

To promote an entrepreneurial spirit and to consider the option of setting up a company as an employment opportunity

Development of entrepreneurial skills and use of tools that equip people to work in an entrepreneurial project

Essential knowledge for those interested in managing their own business