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Identifying a clear and meaningful vision is critical towards personal and organizational success and excellence. Without a clear vision one’s life is full of confusions and contradictions.
Similarly, many organizations live from crisis to crisis--rudderless ships in turbulent waters-- with their prospects of success and their very existence at stake.
Then there are people with dreams and aspirations that appear surreal in the backdrop of the hustle of real life, of making ends meet and of the struggle to keep pace with the world, wondering if their dreams would ever materialize. |
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This workshop will give you the fundamental paradigms, tools and the language to address this complex yet important subject. This workshop will not only empower you to envision but also set the ground for making your vision a reality both on a personal and organizational level.
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Title: Strategic Visions Workshop
Facilitator: Mr. Suleman Ahmer
Date: December 15 - 17, 2011
Time: Thursday 4:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Friday & Saturday 8:00 am - 6:30 pm |
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Who should attend:
People who want to:
- learn the art of leading a passionate life with balance
- learn the art of connecting long term worthy visions with their day-to-day routines
- establish organizations and institutions with worthy long term visions
Location: Rose Rayhaan by Rotana, Dubai - U.A.E
Fee: AED 3,750/- per participant
Fee includes: The SV course material, certificate of participation, valuable networking, refreshments and lunches.
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Technical definitions of the terms vision, mission,
purpose, purpose of the vision, ultimate purpose, strategy and goals.
The five functions that the visions provides like:
- It gives us direction
- Helps us in our day to day decision making
- Gives us motivation
- Helps us fight adversity
- Protects us from becoming a tool of someone else’s undesirable vision
- Helps us select our roles
The nine characteristics of the vision:
- Attainability
- Lucidity
- Concreteness
- Clarity
- Complexity
- Scale
- Nobility
- Loftiness
- Correctness
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- The foundation of the vision on a clearly defined purpose of the vision (POV)
- The foundation of the POV on a clearly defined ultimate purpose of the individual and the organization
- How to define and articulate ultimate purpose
- The yardstick to check the correctness of the vision
- Historical case studies to highlight the functions and characteristics of the vision
- Introduction to the concept of excellence
- Introduction to mandated roles and choice roles
- How to systematically select our roles in the light of the vision
- The concept of creating a balance in our roles
- Linking roles with the vision
- Framework for developing a hundred year vision based on the different roles in life
- Developing short term objectives and strategy based on this long term vision
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- By understanding the importance of a clear vision in life, your focus on what you really want out of your life will increase.
- Your decision making will become thoughtful and aligned to your vision.
- You would be able to have the inner peace and tranquility that comes from having a clearer meaning in life and to be striving towards a worthy and valuable vision.
- Lastly, if you are already working towards a vision, this workshop will give you the invaluable tools to effectively translate your vision into reality.
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The basic and the most important building blocks of companies, corporations and organizations are people. By inspiring excellence in people and empowering them with the knowledge and tools as explained above, we enhance productivity and teamwork in the organization.
What matters to people, asserts Senge (a professor at MIT), are personal visions and not corporate visions. It is only when corporate visions are aligned with personal visions that the true potentials of individuals are unleashed; not only taking the individuals to greater heights but also permeating the organization and moving it towards excellence.
For business owners and key stake holders, this workshop will give them the concepts and tools to formulate and refine organizational visions. |
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"…I have learnt many things in this workshop which I used to think in a totally different way. The key points I learnt are how to develop your vision by using the vision framework and the importance of purpose behind your vision and how risky it is to live without a purpose…"
Eman Zafar
Student, Westminster School Dubai
"…It was really a worthwhile training to attend and I am expecting changes in my family and professional life with immediate effect…"
Ms. Nazim Hussain
Dubai
"...Very informative and educational presentation with a very unique perspective. Easy to understand, interesting and interactive."
Imtiaz Hydari
CEO, HBG Holdings, UAE
"...Excellent course that will help structure my life and achieve my vision."
Noman Abidi Construction Manager,
Ellisdon, UAE
“It is really an excellent training and I got a lot from this workshop such as how to reorganize my life based on a clear vision and a purpose and what is the procedure of building a vision and how to reprioritize / aligned my activities accordingly.”
Abdullah Al-Attas
Senior Engineer Audit & Resignation, SABIC, KSA
“A mind opening workshop. Very lively and giving right time/pace to think and understand concepts through real life examples. I really appreciate it.”
Jean-Luc Sonnay
Project Manager, DU, UAE
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This workshop is designed for corporate and opinion leaders desirous of developing and executing meaningful and inspiring personal and organizational visions.
The participants would also include people who have been working with the concept of visions in academia, business, government, social platforms and on personal levels. Furthermore, the workshop provides a forum where the participants can refine, challenge and revisit their views and paradigms through the workshop contents and interaction with a diversified international group of individuals.
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Suleman’s interest in the power of visions to transform organizations has resulted in consulting work with groups in Pakistan, the UAE and the US. He has consulted with both local and Multinational organizations. Suleman has taught the fundamentals of Visions to thousands of individuals in Bahrain, Kuwait, Pakistan, the UAE and the US.
Suleman founded Timerunners, Inc. in Chicago in 1999, Timelenders, Inc. in Boston and Karachi in 2002 and Timelenders FZE in the UAE in 2007. Through Timelenders, Suleman teaches courses such as Strategic Time Management and Strategic Visions. The list of companies trained includes global giants such as GSK, Nestle, Pfizer, Philips, Siemens, Total and Telenor.
Before founding Timelenders, Suleman was associated with a couple of Chicago based multinationals. He has worked in the US and Canada, the Caspian region, the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. He has traveled to over 25 countries. A former member of the American Management Association, Suleman draws inspiration from his international management experience and his background in research.
Suleman is an award winning author and has three works: the essence of his travel experiences are captured in ‘The Embattled Innocence’ published in the US and his current focus is ‘Strategic Time Management’ and ‘Strategic Visions’. His articles on geopolitics and history have appeared in prestigious magazines in the US such as Washington Post for Middle East Affairs. He has spoken to over 40 US universities including the Harvard University, MIT, Emory, University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers.
Suleman is an Engineering graduate of the University of Nebraska and his research with the US Air Force in Solid State Physics culminated in published work.
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