Download Programme DetailsSydney Nov 28, 29 2005 - Sydney

Master Class Leaders

Giam Swiegers, CEO Deloittes Australia, Colin Funk, Director, Leadership Leanring Lab, the Banff Centre, Canada; Caroline van den Brul - Director, Creative Networks, BBC, United Kingdom; Kerry Barwise, Director, the Centre for International Economics, Sydney; Peter Williams, CEO the Eclipse Group; Ralph Kerle; CEO, the Creative Leadership Forum; Tess de Quincey, international choreographer

Master Class Theme 

Using the BBC, an acknowledged and current Harvard Business School case study in organizational change programmes, as a real life example, this two day international master class explored a range of creative methodologies, processes and tools that provided the theoretical underpinning and practical application processes used by the BBC in the implementation of their "Making It Happen" creativity change programme.

The methods explored

• Appreciative Inquiry, a creative methodology built on the four principles, discover, dream, design and destiny
• Arts based processes as a way of providing order for complexity and chaos in systems
• the Creative Problems Solving methodology
• The SRI Principles of Innovation.
• Visual Explorer as a creative methodology for generating new strategic visions

The exploration of the methodologies included building a generic and recognizable business scenario around these methodologies that could be defined as a “moment of truth”; a moment in which, for example, employee empowerment, management leadership or customer satisfaction was at stake. We highlighted the shortcomings of conventional, blinkered, or exclusively left-brain thinking. Then by contrasting that with a vision of what is possible with more inclusive, holistic or creative thinking, we invited delegates to emulate the approach and see where it took them.