Challenging situations require innovative solutions. Organizational obstacles can be reduced and/or eliminated by engaging staff, managers and administrators in cultivation of new perspectives and strategies. Cooperative inquiry strategies can foster creative solutions to break deeply embedded behaviors that impede progress and performance improvement. This 2-1/2 hour workshop provides hands-on techniques facilitators can use to support innovative problem solving by unlocking creativity and engaging staff to eliminate limiting behaviors and perspectives. Inquiry based facilitation practices can be used to produce and capture new thinking within departments and divisions as well as across roles and functions.
Date: August 20, 2011
Venue: Jasmine Executive Suites. Jasmine Room V, 12th Floor, Sukhumvit 23 (same building as California Fitness, just on the back side, 3 minutes from BTS Asok / MRT Sukhumvit)
Time: 10 am - 1 pm, Registration starts from 9:30 am
Dr. Lucia Antonia Alcántara is Principal and Founder of Futures Today Consulting an international boutique firm dedicated to improving client performance in 100 days or less. Her career spans over 10 years of working with executives and work groups in government, private and public organizations and has significant management experience. She is a dynamic multilingual, multicultural consultant with solid expertise in leadership development and organizational learning.
Prior to launching Futures Today Consulting Dr Alcántara served in local municipalities and state government for over 10 years. Lucia is currently teaching in Indiana Institute of Technology's Global Leadership Ph.D. As an educational facilitator, she has taught management and multi-cultural relations at Cornell University and Russell Sage College, respectively; and experiential learning at City University of New York. Dr. Alcántara holds a bachelor's degree from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, a Masters in Public Administration from Baruch College and a Doctorate in Adult Learning and Leadership from Columbia University's Teachers College. A published author, her work includes "Not Just Talk: How Social Change Agents Produce Knowledge in Cooperative Inquiry Groups", by Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010. She has contributed chapters to two books on organizations and transformation; Transformation in Action, Mezirow and Associates, 2009; and Turning to Practice with Action Research, Brøgger and Eikeland, editors, 2010. Results of her research have also been published in international conference journals for the Association for Human Resources Development, and Academy of Management's Research Methods Division.
Dr. Lucia Antonia Alcántara is Principal and Founder of Futures Today Consulting an international boutique firm dedicated to improving client performance in 100 days or less. Her career spans over 10 years of working with executives and work groups in government, private and public organizations and has significant management experience. She is a dynamic multilingual, multicultural consultant with solid expertise in leadership development and organizational learning.