Shedding Light on Your Blind Spots
Have you ever had that moment where you thought everyone was on the same page, only to find out they were on a completely different chapter?
Have you ever had that moment where you thought everyone was on the same page, only to find out they were on a completely different chapter?
Businesses are trying to get an edge by innovating. Outside of technology, utilising the creativity of the workforce on the mind of all organisations. ‘Improv1 for Organisations’ is an excellent tool for creativity, collaboration, flexible mindsets and teamwork.
Listening
Listen to the wise and foolish,
listen to the experienced and the novice.
Dwell on, and check your thoughts,
doubts, questions, let them swell.
The listening followed by a pause,
will provide nothing or everything.
Act on what comes up,
discard forever everything else.
Failure comes when ears are closed,
open those canals and get to your goal.
“Philosophy is to be studied not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definitive answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves”
– Bertrand Russell
“The Sum is Greater than the parts”. Aristotle, Greek Philosopher (384BC – 322BC)
This video was broadcast on the national evening news on the evening of Monday 05 September, following a 2-day change management course with 25 attendees with our partner NPCC (National Productivity and Competitive council of Mauritius) on the 1 and 2 of September. Founder and consultant Ketan Varia, of Kinetik Solutions delivered 8 modules of advanced change training, using ‘learning by doing’ methodology that engaged attendees in an intensive 2 days. Our work yielded practical and new ideas to improve effectiveness in client organisations in Mauritius, as well as get attendees trained in ways that would enable their large change programmes to have improved chance of success and deliver benefit.
TRIZ is a Russian innovation and product design process, which can be effectively used in transformative change process and change management. It helps remove the constraints that hinder innovation and get completely original solutions. As a process it treats the problems and contradictions as part of the system and operates accordingly. TRIZ as a transformation tool first identifies where the contradiction exists in the system. Then in trying to meet both elements of the contradiction it searches for freely available resources that can resolve the paradox. Considering these resources, it becomes much easier to find an innovative solution to the problem.
“Just because you have tasted success,
Doesn’t mean there isn’t another way.
Just because you can’t see the pitfalls,
Doesn’t mean that they aren’t there.”
©Ketan Varia, kinetik solutions
Sea change
There is calm and order
on deck,
restfulness below,
dove of peace on the prow.
But turbulence is in the nature
of the vast wet expanse;
so,the helmsman must peer
far ahead to spot tumult
on the way.
If worst fears are confirmed,
an about-turn is done
and a safer course plotted.
Destinations may be set
but the ways there
need to be negotiable,
all aboard being agreeable-
not to rise in mutiny from fear.
So captain, ring the bell and tell
one and all it will be well.
©Jeewan Ramlugun
22 April 2016