Unique Program offered only by Thought At Work Inspired from the eight years of research by Harvard Business School Professor and backed by a research by IBM of 1500 CEOs on the most important leadership skill of the future

1. Thought at Work™
Your Partner to Co-Create Future

2. Enhance your
Creativity Skills
DNA for Innovation

3. Why Care for it
DNA for Innovation

4. Why care for it
A recent IBM poll of fifteen hundred
CEOs
Identified “creativity” as the number-one
“leadership competency” of the “future”

5. Why care for it
All leaders have problems and opportunities
sitting in front of them for which they have
no solution
A new process , A new product/service,
A new business model for an old business

6. Why care for it
Behind a new strategy resulting into new or
different features, pricing, convenience, or
customizability compared to competition
There is a “creative-thinking” of the
innovators themselves

7. Why care for it
Developing “Creative skills” can save jobs
, organizations and communities
Can also create new jobs , new
organizations and future communities

8. Why care for it
The research and Interviews with more than
100 CEOs concludes that if you want to rise
to the highest levels of your organization
You need strong “Discovery Skills”

9. The
Business
Challenge
DNA for Innovation

10. CHALLENGE Our Approach
“Business” not generating Innovative
Ideas
Are “Your People ” good at generating
Innovative Ideas
How to find innovative people for my
organization
How can you create skills and processes
where people can learn to be creative
I doubt if Training will help someone to
be more creative
Effectiveness lies in if training material
is research based and the trainers are
more of coaches
Is not that l don’t know that teams
have to be “Innovative” “think out of
the box” or “creative “
“How” they can be “Innovative “,
“Think out of the box” or “Creative”

11. CHALLENGE Our Approach
“Business” not generating Innovative
Ideas
Are “Your People ” good at generating
Innovative Ideas
How to find innovative people for my
organization
How can you create skills and processes
where people can learn to be creative
I doubt if Training will help someone to
be more creative
Effectiveness lies in if training material
is research based and the trainers are
more of coaches
Is not that l don’t know that teams
have to be “Innovative” “think out of
the box” or “creative “
“How” they can be “Innovative “,
“Think out of the box” or “Creative”

12. “The Research”
DNA for Innovation

13. The Research
The program is based on eight-year
collaborative study to understand how
disruptive Innovators think
Research was provocative , insightful and
surprisingly identified similar behaviours for
disruptive Innovators

14. The Research
The most valuable and novel business ideas
and strategies that Innovators had
generated during their business careers
Based on the moment and context (when, how
and where) they came up with the creative ideas
that launched new products or businesses

15. The Solution
Think & Act
Different
DNA for Innovation

16. The Solution “Think & Act Different”
A critical insight from the research is that
one’s ability to generate innovative ideas is
not merely a function of the mind
but also a function of behaviours

17. The Solution “Think & Act Different”
Focused squarely on individual creativity
in the business context
Based on the study of a large sample of
business innovators

18. The Solution “Think & Act Different”
Attend this program to understand and
practice “Five Creativity skills” that you can
master
to improve your ability to be an
Innovative Thinker

19. Post Workshop Benefits
Acquire skills to face your next Innovation
Challenge
Learn processes that encourage the five skills
which Innovators follow
Gain an understanding on how you can
encourage and support innovation efforts

20. Work-shop facilitator - Vikas Gera
• Vikas is the founder of Thought at Work. He has served in Manufacturing-Consumer
Durables in Khaitan Fans India Ltd., Carrier Corporation, and Whirlpool India and later
in Services - ITES/BPM in Hewlett Packard and WNS Business Services before setting up
consulting and training company. He has set-up and led Pan-India as well Global –
World-wide roles in Strategy, Business Operations, Business Planning, Quality, Industrial
& Process Engineering. He was among the first few in INDIA to deploy LEAN in
Manufacturing-Consumer Durables Segment in Carrier Corporation .He was the
pioneer worldwide in ITES (Information Technology Enabled Services) –kick starting
Process and Industry Innovation by envisioning a Business Performance Management
(BPM) Framework by deploying Industrial Engineering (IE) & LEAN SIX SIGMA Principles
in Global Business Services in Hewlett –Packard. He has travelled around the globe to
guide & consult ,facilitate workshops & business war-rooms and training programs in
Mexico ,Costa Rica ,USA ,Spain ,Poland ,UAE ,Germany ,UK ,Italy ,The Netherlands
,China ,Thailand ,Korea ,Philippines and Singapore. He loves challenging himself and his
clients now & then to prove that there can be a better way. He loves reading, travelling
and exploring unknown subjects, places, food & culture.

21. Work-shop facilitator – Salil Agarwal
• Salil is a Gold Medallist in Engineering and completed his Post Graduation in Management
from Indian Institute of Management ,Ahmedabad . He has worked with leading
organizations including PricewaterhouseCoopers, GE, Perot Systems and Raychem
Corporation. He has been a thought leader and has authored articles and been invited to
speak at industry forums. He has taught at various academic institutions including the
prestigious Indian Institute of Management. He brings with him an effective blend of
diversified experience acquired during his career in India and overseas across many verticals
.He has helped organizations create value through higher productivity, faster service and lower
costs. His experience spans across manufacturing and service organizations and he has done
projects across industry verticals namely – IT, ITES, telecom, retail, infrastructure,
entertainment and media, hospitality, healthcare, consumer goods, logistics, cement, heavy
engineering . He has also worked with the government and with development organizations in
a consulting role. He is a pioneer in the Business Process Outsourcing area and has been
involved in planning and executing strategies to outsource business processes to India. He
created the transition tool kit for the outsourcing industry . He has designed and conducted
programs in the areas of Six Sigma, project management, change management,
communication skills, meeting effectiveness, leadership, conflict management and creativity.

22. Work-shop facilitator – Rajnish Julka
Rajnish Julka is having years of Indian & Global (South East Asia, Latin America & Middle East)
with good Business sense. He is a Mechanical Engineer (BE) and MBA (HRM & Operations), He
is very high on Analytical abilities, Achievement Orientation, Interpersonal Relationships and is
a pragmatic leader . Rajnish is also a Councillor, Certified BEI Evaluator, Mentor, Certified
Trainer from Mackenzie Consultant USA, and Certified Facilitator for “7-Habits of Highly
Effective People” by Covey Leadership Institute, USA. He is HRM & Business Advisor to some of
the Organizations and Educational Institutes for Student Placements & Business Enhancement.
Training on behavioural skills like Leadership, Teamwork and Change Management is his
passion and his continuous interaction with Premium Educational Institutes as Guest Lecturer
has helped n developing the Leadership Pipeline. His rich & varied experience of different
sectors like Manufacturing, Infra, Real Estate, Retail, FMCG, ITES, Consumer Durable. He is the
Visiting Faculty to many of the B-schools incl the IIMs, JIMS and is on the Interviewing Panel of
Various Premier B-Schools like FMS, IIM, IMT, JIMS, DSE etc. He writes in various HR magazines
like – Human Capital, People Matters, ET and is also a distinguish Speaker at various Business
& HR Platforms in India and aboard like Asia HR Congress at KL, New Emerging HR Role at
Singapore.

23. Work-shop facilitator – Vasudev Pawar
He has got rich experience of consultancy in driving process improvement and transformation
with Lean & Six sigma methodologies at local – global platform in service and manufacturing
organizations. He is recognised as a strategic planner with proficiency in business process
assessment and articulating enhancement charter for business excellence, quality &
environmental management systems and compliance towards legal/ regulatory requirements
.He has been steering change and knowledge management, leading project & program
portfolio, defining continuous improvement plans, accelerating employees engagement and
building powerful teams that can resonate with organization’s visions. He possess excellent
analytical, presentation & inter-personal skills with proven ability in driving quality
enhancement, process excellence & bottom line optimization initiatives during the career span
in manufacturing and service organization of repute in leading Business Excellence, Business
Process Re-engineering, Transformation, Continual process improvement along with superior
IT solutions. He is a Certified Master Black Belt Six Sigma, Lean Consultant, Business Excellence
Lead, ISO 9001 & 14001 Lead assessor.

25. Email : info@thoughtatwork.in
Tel : 91-8826216688
Website : www.thoughtatwork.in
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