WORKSHOPS
 

EXECUTIVE STRATEGIC VISIONS WORKSHOP

Identifying a clear and meaningful vision is critical towards personal and organizational success and excellence. A life without a clear vision is a life without a direction, a life 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 which refuses to slow down. They often wonder if their dreams would ever move from the realm of fantasy to reality.

This workshop is designed to 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.

  The value for individuals
  The value for corporate clients
  The contents of the workshop
  The participants
  Suleman Ahmer - Profile of the lead facilitator
  Learning Objectives of Strategic Visions workshop
  Schedules and registration
  Download Brochure in PDF Format (4 MB)



The value for individuals

  By understanding the importance of a clear vision in life, your focus on what you really want out ofs 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.





The value for corporate clients

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.




The contents of the workshop

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 seven dimensions of the vision:

  Attainability
  Clarity
  Lucidity
 

Nobility

  Scale
 

Loftiness

  Correctness
  Complexity


  The five personal dimensions which are pre-requisites for the success of your vision
  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 dimensions 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



The participants

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.




Suleman Ahmer - Profile of the lead facilitator

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.




The learning objectives

By the end of the workshop the participants should have learnt the following:

  The technical meanings of the words:
   
  Vision
 

Mission

 

Purpose of the vision

 

Ultimate Purpose

 

Ideology

 

Mandated and Choice Roles

  Pivot Role
  Driving Role
  Ultimate Vision
  Subvisions
  Mandated Role Support Roles (MSRs)
  Vision Support Roles (VSRs)
  Time Restricted Quadrant 1 activities (TRQ1s)
  Time Restricted Quadrant 2 activities (TRQ2s)
  Excellence
     
 

The summary of the following concepts

   
  The Daily Scheduler
 

The Time Quadrant System

 

Sound Ideology

     
 

Details of the following concepts

   
  The concept of Decision Making Routines (DMRs)
 

The concept of Tony

 

Mine Maps

 

The concept of excellence

 

The concept of Balance in Roles

 

Mandated and Choice roles

  What do we mean by dimensions and functions of the vision
  The five dimensions of the vision
  The five personal dimensions
  The six functions of the vision
  The basis of the vision on the purpose of the vision (POV)
  The basis of the POV on the Ultimate purpose which in turn is based on a sound ideology
  How to proceed in developing a sound ideology
  Format for developing hundred year sub-visions based on our final selection of mandated and choice roles both on a personal and organizational level.

By the end of the workshop you would have done the following:

  Applying the knowledge of dimensions and functions of a vision to at least two case studies
 

Should have taken at least one quiz to ensure that you understand the concepts well

 

Chalked out your mandated and choice roles and gotten the final selection of your roles

  Developed a 100 year ultimate sub-vision in at least 1 of your roles and broken it down to quantifiable goals for the current week.
  Learnt how to plot your TRQ1s and TRQ2s on your DS
  Plotted your current week quantifiable goals of your two sub-visions onto your DS




Schedules and registration

Year 2010 schedule and fees