The Art of the Advantage Workshop is an energizing problem-solving session that helps a team to "conceive" and efficiently focus on a set of creative strategies for realizing a key business objective. Using a proprietary “pattern-based” methodology and ancient Chinese warfare metaphors, it engages teammates in a lively, robust exploration of innovative, outside-of-the-box options. Teams often discover a “silver bullet” they had not considered before. (Download our brochure here)

OBJECTIVES

• Energize your team
• Unlock creativity
• Generate 50 to 200 new solutions to a pressing business problem
• Identify the three to five highest potential ideas
• Learn a methodology to creatively solve problems
• Increase your competitiveness

APPROACH

This full or half-day session uses ancient Chinese warfare metaphors to help your team generate outside-of-the-box options for solving a critical strategic problem. Our proprietary approach uses pattern-recognition rather than logic and is grounded in principles of “The Art of the Advantage,” a business strategy book published by one of our partners. The session helps to ensure that promising, unorthodox ideas are given their due consideration and in so doing maximizes your chances of finding a “silver bullet” to achieve your goals with minimal effort.

TOPICS COVERED

• Creativity as a competitive advantage
• Overcoming barriers to creativity
• Finding the path of least effort
• Defining a compelling problem
• Using pattern-recognition to solve problems
• Generating innovative options
• Prioritizing/ focusing your efforts

SAMPLE CLIENTS

• Starbucks
• DHL
• Delta Airlines
• HP
• Laboratorios Stein

ACTUAL CLIENT COMMENTS:

“[Your workshop] helped us reveal creative new strategies for overcoming a business challenge we had been facing for some time.”

- Joanna Popper, DHL

“In today’s ever-changing environment at Delta, your refreshing approach to business strategy is welcomed.”

- Jane Hubbard, Delta Airlines

“I am amazed by the results you created with our group.”

- Douglas Stein, Kellogg School of Management

“[Your approach] can lead a strategist to conceive of competitive options that might not have been otherwise considered."

- David Wenner, former Director of McKinsey & Company

“The Art of the Advantage offers a timeless strategic playbook."

- Paul Winslow, Director of Strategy, Toys “R” Us

“The Art of the Advantage will become your strategic compass.”

- Colleen Brown, EVP Business Development, Belo Corp.

"[The Art of the Advantage] presentation was very informative, professionally delivered and well received. Thank you for introducing us to your 36 thought-provoking stratagems and more importantly, for showing us how to apply them to our everyday personal and business lives!"
-  Vicki Cerda VP Programs, Miami Chapter of ASTD

"The 36 stratagems bring a fresh breath of real creativity borrowed from thousands of years of wisdom.” - Yale School of Management


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