Workshops for managers ...

Creating an artistic experience to support team building and the realisation of business goals.

(In house) Programs/workshops  varying from 1/2 day to 2 days.

Both managers and artists aim to describe and influence reality. Managers develop new strategies and products that have to be consistent with shareholder and customer expectations. Artists develop new facts and theories that must be original (break the rules). Although artists and managers work differently, they are closely related. Both have to relate what is known to be understood and accepted. Both are on the border of a reality system they try to expand. Buth both, the manager and the artist, cope in a different way with reality. Management is mainly rational and control oriented. Artists are focussed on creativity, intuition, uncertainty, syncretism and serendipity.

The art-work process appreciation methodology is developed to create a mutual inspiring experience. It encourages self-development with a focus on perception shown by the emphasis on tacit knowledge, uncertainty, intuition, emergence and participation. This acts as a counterbalance to the more traditional management focus on analysis with its emphasis on rationalism, predictability, planning and control. The approach starts from the artistic process and has a strong experiential element. Artistic activities will form the central part of the scenario proposed after the intake (cfr. infra) . Some aspects of the 'art-work process appreciation method' were developed at the Business Art School Centre at the London Business School and finetuned by Jan De Visch and his colleagues in different organizational environments.

The program has a significant inward-looking personal development component and is basically practical oriented. There will also be a forward looking component, looking how the learned topics can be integrated in future business processes. The art-work appreciation method aims to : examine creativity and perception in management, introduce creative approaches to management, examine the impact of cognition, intuition and perception on action, understand alternative ways in which management can enable individuals and teams to be more effective and responsible. In order to realise these goals we use a number of different methods, eg. Individual painting exercises using individual sketchbooks, using different pencils and ecoline paint Small group exercises, using a variety of painting materials Large group exercises, inviting participants to create a painting which shows both each individual participants approach ànd has a distinctively shared character. A guided visit to a museum or gallery exposition. The art-work process appreciation method is combined with a market dialogue approach, working in shifting teams around a number of strategic or essential business topics, integrating what is learnt in future action plans.

Vorig jaar organiseerde Jan De Visch dialoogsessies rond het thema 'Kijken anders bekeken'. Hij vertrok hierbij van de verscheidenheid aan manieren om een kunstwerk te bekijken én vertaalde dit naar de manier waarop je als leidinggevende naar medewerkers en naar klanten kunt kijken. Ooit gedacht dat er naast een westers en een diagnostisch kijken ook een veelheid aan andere manieren van kijken bestaat (bv. een Oosters -, Afrikaans -, Grieks -, Italiaans -, ...). We zijn constant op zoek naar aandacht van de medewerker of klant. Deze sessies gingen over het opentrekken van ons kijken, uiteraard om te komen tot een beter contact én een betere communicatie. De sessies zijn waardevol voor iedereen die vanuit een leidinggevende functie op zoek is naar het optimaliseren van relaties.