Wood for trees
“The forest cannot see the trees” is the Spanish variation of a universal sentiment.
The ability to change the way we see a situation, taking in vital detail and also seeing patterns, spotting moods and grasping context, is one of the critical differences between a dynamic leader and a competent manager, or a chess grand master and a weekend enthusiast.
Most of us take a relatively narrow range of information into account, avoiding detail that we think will slow us down, meanwhile delightfully unaware of the big questions that could alter our course. This means that we do a lot but not as well or as quickly as we could.
Once we recognise our self-imposed limitations and automatic assumptions, we can remove them and move effortlessly between grain, dune and desert.
In 90 minutes you will have
- Discovered how and where you limit your thinking.
- Practised techniques to help stretch your perception (ie. the way in which you take in information) so that you can gain the benefits of both precision and wide-angle thinking.
- Considered when to focus on detail, when to remain big picture and how to combine these two very different perspectives.