AUROSOORYA WORKSHOP TOPICS

• APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY: There are many techniques to mobilize and empower employees. Amongst them Appreciative Inquiry stands as a unique and powerful technique in that it works with the force of appreciation. This is not in a hollow sense, but through recreating the positive and hence more easily sustainable feeling of truly being appreciated, of joy, in conducting even normal day-to-day work. Appreciative Inquiry has been successfully used by many different organizations in strategy development, planning of all kinds – ranging from operational to information technology, to organization redesign.

• AENHANCING CREATIVITY IN THE WORKPLACE: Creativity is a key to the continued success of many organizations. Hence, techniques and methodologies that help organizations understand and mobilize this vital force is imperative. Aurosoorya has developed a unique approach to recognize creative types and mobilize the individual’s creativity.

• SCENARIO PLANNING: In an uncertain world it is important to plan for the future. Through the creation of alternative scenarios an organization can prepare itself for variable or even unexpected futures. Aurosoorya will detail the process as to how this can be done.

• TEAM BUILDING: Aurosoorya believes that teams need to be created through the focus on positive aspects of each member. All too often negative aspects can hinder team-dynamics. Aurosoorya, thus, has created its proprietary methodology along with easily useable software to facilitate the process of team building.

• INDIVIDUAL AWARENESS BUILDING: At the heart of so much that goes on in an organization, is the experience and notion an employee may have of him- or her-self. Through Individual Awareness Building this experience and notion of self is explored, to give the employee tools to begin to operate in a radically improved way.

• LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: Aurosoorya has researched some of the cutting-edge methods of leadership development, and has created techniques which both integrate and go beyond the cutting-edge. Areas that have been leveraged include those of Complexity Science, Emotional Intelligence, and Unity-in-Diversity. Proprietary techniques such as Degrees of Freedom framework and Uniqueness Model have been developed by Aurosoorya to assist in Leadership development.

• BUILDING ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE: The world is changing rapidly. For an organization to be able to adapt in real-time, to become resilient, is absolutely necessary. Aurosoorya has developed a Degrees of Freedom framework which helps the organization build-in resilience into its everyday functioning.

• DEVELOPING BUSINESS SCORECARDS: In an environment with so many options available to organizations it becomes important to prioritize carefully. Appropriate metrics and measurement systems must be designed to ensure that the organization is fulfilling its goals. Scorecards can be developed for the organization as a whole, or for individual functions within the organization.

Customized workshops can be developed by combining topics from within the following groups –

• LEVERAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Leveraging IT Assets, Emerging Information Technologies, Thin Client Computing, Developing Process Capability to Enable Innovation, Internal Outsourcing, Top-down Technology Leadership, Rethinking Organizational Structures, Effectively Mobilizing Human Capital

• POWERING ORGANIZATIONAL INTERNET CAPABILITY: Internet Principles, Developing eCommerce Capability, Developing eBusiness Capability, Building a Quantumprise, Developing Channel Power, Mergers & Acquisitions, Knowledge Management