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With internet and online technologies, the way people travel has changed: more information is available for people to make travel decision faster than ever and more independently too. Group travel is such that it requires a tailored approach - as what is possible for 1, 2 or even 5 travelers may not be for 15, 20, 60 or 120 travelers. OIA is offering travel solutions for group that are designed to combine the speed and efficacy offered by the online tools while guaranteeing the expertise and knowledge required for groups small to big or even very big.
As professional this require a unique expertise - a novel approach and proper mindset, focused on ground expertise, event management skills and a good understanding of what Chief Executives and top managers need to achieve through their company's meetings and incentives (MICE)...
Monday, March 5, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
New careers in HR - Learning Consultant / Leadership consultant
In Asia HR is often looking at the administrative side of HR. Upwards, HR will deal with fitting the workforce with the company strategic directions. It will involve various aspects: attracting, managing and retaining talents, ensuring the workforce is aligned with the strategic vision and ready for the challenges ahead. Being ready for such challenges imply training people - helping staff learn, unlearn, relearn - in a broad sense - is what these training need to bring to the organisation.
After many years working and experimenting in the field of experiential learning, we at OIA have developed special skills and sensitivity to HR-related corporate issues:
1- The laws of Engagement: today organisations need to keep their staff engaged. They need to attract them with attractive vision(s) and keep these alive so that staff keep motivated. Command and control may still be relevant (sometimes?) for specific aspects of the job but they surely do not suffice in attracting people (with the promise of just being paid) or retaining people (with the promise of having a job). Staff need to be engaged - day by day. This is the job of the managers - all the way up to the CEO. How does an company forster a culture of engagement?
2- Inspiring leadership: influencing behaviors while encouraging initiative : how does an organisation ensure that the workforce is moving towards the direction where the CEO want to lead? At the speed at which things change (economics, environment, technology, education paradigm...), companies need to evolve, transform quickly, while often managing large workforce, big teams, in many, various markets, dealing with various cultures, habits, patterns - all shaping hard-to-predict behaviors. Paradoxically leveraging on these behaviors is really what the company needs to do to move towards its goal.
3-Building teams: no project is undertaken without a team behind it. What does it take for teams to work well together? What does it take for teams to move into action as quickly as possible? to solve problems quickly? to adapt to change fast and smoothly? OIA offers a practical, proven framework for team-building solutions, starting from the basics: creating the right conditions for team work to happen: trust, openess, and ability to overcome conflict and understand each other across cultures. Moving on to more business-related aspects of the team work: focusing on vision-mission, accountability, commitment and motivation.
Career path: OIA offers unique exciting career path
- Start as Account executive / account manager all the way to Learning Consultant: you will learn to develop tailor-made training solutions fitting to customer requirements. Ultimately, you are exposed to various business cases and offer innovative approach for training and human capital development
- Leadership consultant: In the meantime, you will be exposed to training delivery and if your profile allows, you will be coached into assisting our trainers and practicing facilitation skills. You will be exposed to a broad array of experiential learning solutions that will become part of the repertoire of training solutions available.
After many years working and experimenting in the field of experiential learning, we at OIA have developed special skills and sensitivity to HR-related corporate issues:
1- The laws of Engagement: today organisations need to keep their staff engaged. They need to attract them with attractive vision(s) and keep these alive so that staff keep motivated. Command and control may still be relevant (sometimes?) for specific aspects of the job but they surely do not suffice in attracting people (with the promise of just being paid) or retaining people (with the promise of having a job). Staff need to be engaged - day by day. This is the job of the managers - all the way up to the CEO. How does an company forster a culture of engagement?
2- Inspiring leadership: influencing behaviors while encouraging initiative : how does an organisation ensure that the workforce is moving towards the direction where the CEO want to lead? At the speed at which things change (economics, environment, technology, education paradigm...), companies need to evolve, transform quickly, while often managing large workforce, big teams, in many, various markets, dealing with various cultures, habits, patterns - all shaping hard-to-predict behaviors. Paradoxically leveraging on these behaviors is really what the company needs to do to move towards its goal.
3-Building teams: no project is undertaken without a team behind it. What does it take for teams to work well together? What does it take for teams to move into action as quickly as possible? to solve problems quickly? to adapt to change fast and smoothly? OIA offers a practical, proven framework for team-building solutions, starting from the basics: creating the right conditions for team work to happen: trust, openess, and ability to overcome conflict and understand each other across cultures. Moving on to more business-related aspects of the team work: focusing on vision-mission, accountability, commitment and motivation.
Career path: OIA offers unique exciting career path
- Start as Account executive / account manager all the way to Learning Consultant: you will learn to develop tailor-made training solutions fitting to customer requirements. Ultimately, you are exposed to various business cases and offer innovative approach for training and human capital development
- Leadership consultant: In the meantime, you will be exposed to training delivery and if your profile allows, you will be coached into assisting our trainers and practicing facilitation skills. You will be exposed to a broad array of experiential learning solutions that will become part of the repertoire of training solutions available.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Charles Handy on Qualities of Vision and Leadership - What does he sees when he looks under the stairs?
Charles Handy on Qualities of Vision and Leadership
--
Ludovic Odier
Founder & CEO
OIA Pte Ltd - Learning & Travel - TA no 01 770
OIA Learning Hub / OutdòórInAsia / SchòólTripsAsia
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What does he sees when he looks under the stairs?
1-Why do we always assume that growth means more?
Apart from the universe, there is nothing that has unchecked growth
Nothing grows forever - It can't happen
Maybe consumerism is the new cancer of society
Growth does not need to be made of more of anything... but to be different instead
What "different" will that be?
If anything "more", what "more" means?
2- The new need or demand for proper selfishness - or respectful individualism
Employees more and more feel
Employees say they are ready to sabotage their organisation
There is unhappiness
There is aspiration for opting for the portfolio life
Portfolio life: you cannot complain - you are responsible
Don't pretend to yourself
Don't pretend to your people
The greatest gift you can give to anyone is to give them a degree of self-esteem
Can you as a leader take a risk with anybody?
Ludovic Odier
Founder & CEO
OIA Pte Ltd - Learning & Travel - TA no 01 770
OIA Learning Hub / OutdòórInAsia / SchòólTripsAsia
| ': +65 6738 9917 | F : +65 6732 37 66
| M: +65 9791 4491 | E: lodier@outdoorinasia.com
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Left brain-right brain - intertwined, interconnected and interdependent
From: clinton
Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:23 PM
Subject: Left brain-right brain
Joo Hock,
Thought I’ll dwell further on the left brain-right brain discussion we had yesterday.
Yes, agree that the left brain is viewed essentially as the logical side and the right brain, the creative side.
This is primarily due to the properties found on each side:
Left Brain Right Brain
Logic Imagination
Word Colour
Sequence Dimension
Analysis Spatial Awareness
List Synthesis
Number Rhythm
Pattern Daydreaming
Through habit of usage, people tend to be left brain or right brain DOMINANT and hence we tend to label someone a left or right brainer
In practice however, all the properties are intertwined, interconnected and interdependent as the left and right brain are connected via our corpus collasum, which shuttles information, criss-crossing both sides all the time, depending on usage as one learns, thinks and create.
The more properties from both sides are engaged, the better, more wholesome is the solution to challenges likely to be.
An architect would have used just about all his 14 left and right brain properties in designing a building.
So labelling the right brain as the creative side or the creative brain is a misnomer.
Your creative brain is your whole brain!
You are wired to be a genius!
So use more of both sides. And engage the 100 Billion neurons that each of us was born with.
You may want to share this info with the Bucky Group.
Cheers,
Clinton
Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:23 PM
Subject: Left brain-right brain
Joo Hock,
Thought I’ll dwell further on the left brain-right brain discussion we had yesterday.
Yes, agree that the left brain is viewed essentially as the logical side and the right brain, the creative side.
This is primarily due to the properties found on each side:
Left Brain Right Brain
Logic Imagination
Word Colour
Sequence Dimension
Analysis Spatial Awareness
List Synthesis
Number Rhythm
Pattern Daydreaming
Through habit of usage, people tend to be left brain or right brain DOMINANT and hence we tend to label someone a left or right brainer
In practice however, all the properties are intertwined, interconnected and interdependent as the left and right brain are connected via our corpus collasum, which shuttles information, criss-crossing both sides all the time, depending on usage as one learns, thinks and create.
The more properties from both sides are engaged, the better, more wholesome is the solution to challenges likely to be.
An architect would have used just about all his 14 left and right brain properties in designing a building.
So labelling the right brain as the creative side or the creative brain is a misnomer.
Your creative brain is your whole brain!
You are wired to be a genius!
So use more of both sides. And engage the 100 Billion neurons that each of us was born with.
You may want to share this info with the Bucky Group.
Cheers,
Clinton
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Intuitive mind / rational mind - Servant and master
Here I am sharing an interesting point / fundamental distinction /powerful directions shared by our friend Joo Hock - as part of his Bucky's group activities: see below.
I may not need to add anything except - as I am thinking about it - that the mind is a powerful tool - a tool "out of this world", a gift to humanity in a way, something that sets us apart - not so much because we are so great but because it gives us a special power: power of choice, power of discernment, power of intelligible perception, power of intelligence somehow.
I like to think that intelligence comes in various form. Harvard Howard Gardner talks of multiple intelligence. There is one intelligence that has always been very dear to me and it is what I call Heart intelligence - it is a connective, integrative, inclusive form of intelligence and it is governed by the heart. Whereas rational, analytical, brain-based intelligence is more divisive, specialization-focused. I guess I will continue to explore this field.... Kindly contribute if you feel like....Cheerios to All :-)
from Joo Hock email (11/11/2011): Dear Friends and Fellow Buckians,
Last Sat. we listen to a talk by Iain McGilchrist on the Divided Brain. Interesting. Because I use to think that Right Brainers are Creative people, Artistic types, and that the Left Brainers are Logical, the Science types.
McGilchrist pointed that while the Left brain focusses, the Right Brain keeps a lookout at the Big Picture. So though one may be Right dominant or Left dominant, actually the two hemispheres of Brain they work together.
At the end of his Talk, McGilchrist pointed out that Einstein shared that the Intuitve Mind is a Sacred Gift, the Rational Mind is a Faithful Servant. Hmmm... Interesting Perspectives.
from Joo Hock email (11/11/2011): Dear Friends and Fellow Buckians,
Last Sat. we listen to a talk by Iain McGilchrist on the Divided Brain. Interesting. Because I use to think that Right Brainers are Creative people, Artistic types, and that the Left Brainers are Logical, the Science types.
McGilchrist pointed that while the Left brain focusses, the Right Brain keeps a lookout at the Big Picture. So though one may be Right dominant or Left dominant, actually the two hemispheres of Brain they work together.
At the end of his Talk, McGilchrist pointed out that Einstein shared that the Intuitve Mind is a Sacred Gift, the Rational Mind is a Faithful Servant. Hmmm... Interesting Perspectives.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Think "Design" - Think "Tools" - Buckminster Fuller
Another follow-up by Joo Hock to Dr. DeBono's Talk on thinking posted on OIA.
De Bono talked about Design thinking.
In parallel with this idea, Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller, who called himself a CADS, (Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist) talked about "redesigning" our environment in order to change human behavior in preferred ways, for the betterment of total humanity. In other words, instead of trying to reform man, Bucky preferred to "new" form the environment through Design Science Revolution (DSR), rather than watch mankind resort to bloody revolutions.
And DSR is Tools or Artefact Invention, doing more with less, via technology, thus upping the performance of our resources, creating real life-support Wealth.
DSR requires creativity and innovation.
So if you want to learn how to think like Buckminster Fuller?
Think Tools,
Think Artifact Invention.
What can you invent?
Or re-invent? (many years ago I had a friend who say "don't try to re-invent the wheel"? Good thing I didn't take him seriously) Go ahead re-invent the wheel. You might come out with a better wheel, and if not, you would have re-invented yourself, while trying.
De Bono talked about Design thinking.
In parallel with this idea, Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller, who called himself a CADS, (Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist) talked about "redesigning" our environment in order to change human behavior in preferred ways, for the betterment of total humanity. In other words, instead of trying to reform man, Bucky preferred to "new" form the environment through Design Science Revolution (DSR), rather than watch mankind resort to bloody revolutions.
And DSR is Tools or Artefact Invention, doing more with less, via technology, thus upping the performance of our resources, creating real life-support Wealth.
DSR requires creativity and innovation.
So if you want to learn how to think like Buckminster Fuller?
Think Tools,
Think Artifact Invention.
What can you invent?
Or re-invent? (many years ago I had a friend who say "don't try to re-invent the wheel"? Good thing I didn't take him seriously) Go ahead re-invent the wheel. You might come out with a better wheel, and if not, you would have re-invented yourself, while trying.
Saturday, August 27, 2011
So what IS Experience?
I'd like to share a Poem from my book, "What I feel like saying?"
Because I often asked myself, "so what am I experiencing?" as our lives, who we are may be perceived as a Bundle of Experiences. And Buckminster Fuller linked being in Integrity to speaking, from Experience. He had also defined Universe in terms of Humanity's Experiences.
My poem is entitled:
"What is Experience?"
A nerve-wrecking
roller-coaster ride
getting goose-bumps
listening to ghost stories
in a dark and stromy night
Dunking yourself
in the waterfall's icy bite
Being bruised and battered
in an ego fight
raindrops drumming loudly
on Moonriver Lodge's tin roof
with all their might
(and I might add)
You'll be listened to
as you are in Integrity tonight!
composed by Joo Hock
Because I often asked myself, "so what am I experiencing?" as our lives, who we are may be perceived as a Bundle of Experiences. And Buckminster Fuller linked being in Integrity to speaking, from Experience. He had also defined Universe in terms of Humanity's Experiences.
My poem is entitled:
"What is Experience?"
A nerve-wrecking
roller-coaster ride
getting goose-bumps
listening to ghost stories
in a dark and stromy night
Dunking yourself
in the waterfall's icy bite
Being bruised and battered
in an ego fight
raindrops drumming loudly
on Moonriver Lodge's tin roof
with all their might
(and I might add)
You'll be listened to
as you are in Integrity tonight!
composed by Joo Hock
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