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Members can do the lessons for free and stop when they have had enough. Others complete all the 38 lessons in order to qualify for the SOT certificate. The qualification course with the personalised certificate costs US$38.00.
There are several levels of training for SOT members. They are sequential–each level follows on from the previous level.
If you finish ET 123 you are able to continue on with the next more advanced level of training.
CERTIFICATE OF ENGLISH THINKING
When you complete all lessons to #38 in this series you may qualify for the ET Certificate (English Thinking) which will be personalised and sent to you from the Office of the Principal in Melbourne, Australia.
You may then be invited to join an intake of Leadership Training under the personal direction of Michael.
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Here are three toxic questions that you probably ask that are guaranteed to kill innovation:
“What is the return on investment on this project?” This question scares innovation team and forces them to tell lies. They simply cannot answer it because it’s way too early to know what the ROI will be. So they either make up an answer and stretch the truth, or they throw buckets of speculative financial data at the question and hope no one notices that they aren’t answering it.
“Can you prove your case and back it up with hard data?” Ask this question of an innovation team, and they will put all their energy into the wrong areas. They will try hard to extrapolate numbers from market trends and past experience, rather than thinking about customers, good ideas, and new paradigms.
“Are you meeting your milestones?” This question will force an innovation team to abandon anything controversial and go back to the concrete world that they already know. They might get something done, but it won’t be innovative. Milestones suit a construction project where you know what you are going to build, but they are inappropriate for an innovation or learning project.
As a board member or executive committee member, you aren’t necessarily trying to kill innovation. It’s just that innovation runs counter to so many of the standard tests and processes that make businesses (and executives) successful. It’s hard to accept that innovation requires exploring unknown territory via a winding road — you cannot see around the next corner. You have to be comfortable with “We’re not sure yet.”
Fortunately, there are some great alternative questions can you ask both to give you insight into what your innovators and doing and to help them feel comfortable and thrive.
The Australian Thinker of 2011, Professor Peter Singer, has been acknowledged for raising our human consciousness about our animal companions or friends.
Florence Nightingale wrote in her 1860 book, Notes on Nursing: “A small pet animal is often an excellent companion for the sick…… A pet bird in a cage is sometimes the only pleasure of an invalid confined for years to the same room.”
Taking note of their wisdom, many people are now discussing enlightened thinkers like Nightingale and Singer and saying let’s not even call them “pets”. Why not try something new or ten times better? Let’s not even say “drunk as a skunk” or ” sly as a fox” or “dumb as a sheep”. Sheep are not dumb they are very clever at being sheep. Much cleverer than you or I.
Let’s call them our animal companion or animal friend.
University of Illinois scientists have mapped the physical architecture of intelligence in the brain in one of the largest and most comprehensive analyses so far of the brain structures vital to general intelligence and to specific aspects of intellectual functioning, such as verbal comprehension and working memory.
“We found that general intelligence depends on a remarkably circumscribed neural system,” said Neuroscience professor Aron Barbey of the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, who led the study. “Several brain regions, and the connections between them, were most important for general intelligence.
Accenture are thought-leaders and are sought by leading companies in Australia and around the world for advice, technology consultation and strategic thinking.
In 2012 Accenture worldwide is focused on developing the innovation intelligence of their senior executives. They invited Michael to conduct a full-day masterclass called “Innovation In Just One Day”.
Accenture’s Australian headquarters are located in Pyrmont, Sydney in one of Australia’s most environmentally efficient buildings, the first to achieve a 6 green star rating, the highest possible, signifying “world leadership” from the Green Building Council of Australia. They share the building with one other company, Google Australia.
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(Michael conducting a masterclass for business leaders in Shanghai)
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FREE: Some members just do some of the lessons for free then opt-out when they’ve had enough. Others want to complete all the 38 lessons in order to qualify for the SOT certificate.
FEE: The qualification course with the personalised certificate costs US$38.00.
There are several levels of training for SOT members. They are sequential–each level follows on from the previous level.
If you finish The First Ten Lessons you are able to continue on with ET, the next more advanced level of training, and you will receive an additional 38 advanced lessons. ET stands for English Thinking.
CERTIFICATE OF ENGLISH THINKING
When you complete all the advanced lessons to #38 in this series you may qualify for the ET Certificate (English Thinking) which will be personalised and sent to you from the Office of the Vice Principal, Dr Eric Bienstock, in New York.
You may then be invited to join an intake of Leadership Training under the personal direction of Michael.
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Shanghai, China., April 4, 2012 – (PressReleasePoint) - Australian entrepreneur and author, Morry Morgan, is returning to Australia to shed some light on China from his past 11 years in-country, at his ‘What is your China strategy?’ workshop tour.
Morgan, who wrote the internationally published book, ‘Selling Big to China’ credits his past success with the visit of another Australian, this time from Australia to China. In 2008 his company made its biggest investment in its 11 year history, in the form of a man – Michael Hewitt-Gleeson. Morgan was so impressed by Michael Hewitt-Gleeson’s book, ‘WOMBAT Selling’ (an acronym for ‘Word of Mouth, Buy and Tell) and talking to him in person, that he engaged Michael to consult Morgan’s Shanghai and Beijing teams, share his knowledge, and inspire Morgan’s entire company. Less than six months later the global financial crisis hit the world, but Morgan’s company, ClarkMorgan Corporate Training, survived, thanks in part to Hewitt-Gleeson’s words of wisdom.
Morgan recalls that when he first met Michael, and then read his book, he quickly realised that he wasn’t alone in his philosophy on sales. Morgan recounts that he realised that they two shared beliefs on sales, and that he had proven that this philosophy worked very well in the biggest market in the world – China. However, Morgan adds that ironically, it wasn’t the formal presentations and workshops that he personally found the most valuable, but rather the “shadowing” of Michael, as his personal chaperone during his China visit. It was during this one-on-one time, that the seeds for ‘Selling Big to China’ were planted.
Morgan’s own book, ‘Selling Big to China’ was published in Singapore at the end of 2010, and has received rave reviews in the China’s China Daily newspaper, The Indian Hindu Newspaper, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post, and Australia’s Marketing magazine. This month, he appeared in Human Capital Australia (HCA) magazine highlighting human resource challenges facing businesses expanding into China.
••• Morgan is in Melbourne and Sydney, conducting two workshops titled ‘What is your China strategy?’. Tickets for this three-hour event are $299 and can be paid for at the door.
Melbourne
Tuesday, May 1st, 2 pm to 5 pm - Regus Business Centre, Level 27, 525 Collins Street, Rialto South Tower, MelbourneSydney
Thursday, May 3rd, 2 pm to 5 pm - Regus Business Centre, Level 39, 2 Park Street, Citigroup Centre, Sydney_______________________________________
Press Contact:
Steven Li
Room 2102, Building A Shanghai Universal Mansion, No.172 Yu Yuan Road Jing’an District, Shanghai, 20
+61 3 9650 1598
http://www.clarkmorgan.com
