INTELLECTUAL DIVERSITY

Unlocking the pattern of your natural intelligence for insight, creativity, and better communication.

Human minds are as diverse as fingerprints, yet we have been educated into believing there is only one kind of intelligence. This one myth has resulted in tremendous under-utilization of human capacity. Thirty-five years of cutting-edge research in cognitive styles by Dr. Dawna Markova indicates that there is tremendous advantage in utilizing the unique patterns of intelligence that are derived from the way each of us accesses different kinds of information.

Intellectual Diversity consists of:

  • Assessing and maximizing a person’s natural style of intelligence;
  • Understanding how the interplay of different thinking patterns affects teams, relationships, and organizations;
  • Tools to increase authentic ways of interacting with others that draw out the best in each;
  • Processes for innovation and flexibility of thinking

Applications:
All of our programs are custom designed. Clients include Boards of Directors, leadership teams, and whole divisions of Fortune 100 companies.


THE INSIDE EDGE

Strategies for Key Management Searches and Presentations

Through watching video tapes and/or on-site visits, Dr. Markova analyzes the cognitive patterns and communication styles of :

  • leadership teams in order to maximize their capacity to think together;
  • prospective candidates in key management searches;
  • boards and customers to increase the effectiveness of key presentations and proposals made to them.

“One of the key capacities leaders must have in order to face the demands of complexity is the ability to integrate the expertise of various players who think in essentially different ways to anticipate emerging futures and innovative solutions.”


THE COLLABORATIVE EDGE

Organizational Consulting in Collaborative Intelligence

As complexity and diversity increase, a key organizational skill is learning how to think well together. This program is a dynamic and interactive workshop designed to meet your company's needs. It provides a variety of skills and processes to help participants think across cultural and other divides to increase performance, learning, and enjoyment. Available for teams, divisions, companies, and Boards of Directors.

  • Benefits:
  • Expand each individual’s capacity to think well with others including members of their team, customers, and between those in different cultures.
  • Minimize internal and external interference for maximum individual and collective performance.
  • Develop higher performing teams.
  • Identify the conditions that bring out one’s own and other’s best thinking.
  • Establish effective communication with the organization no matter how geographically far flung.
 

 
 
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