This document outlines an intermediate and advanced level training program on various business topics, including: 1. Strategic thinking and intuition, and preparing organizations for change. 2. Applying neuroscience to focus on business goals and manage stress. 3. Tools like collaboration canvassing, appreciative inquiry, and force field analysis to improve team performance. 4. Using games to learn and improve business results without risks of experiments. 5. A fable to discuss innovation, new ideas, competition, and new products. The program will help all employees develop leadership and address challenges like resistance to change, motivation, strategy evaluation, and organizational structure. Presentations will include exercises and be offered in English

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INTERMEDIATE LEVEL TRAINING PROGRAMMES 2015-2016
Carlos Herreros de las Cuevas.
1. Strategy is the key to develop and grow business results
From this realisation we work with some traditional strategic tools and
others more modern like the transience of competitive advantages and
how to prepare the organization for the inevitable change. The role of
strategic intuition which sometimes is deemed irrelevant. How to count
on intuition ; how to foster it.
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2. The brain what is it and what is it for?. How to use the brain in the
day to day of business goals
We´ll understand how the brain has evolved, its elements or
components; how to focus on what really matters, how to manage stress
and the importance of attention. Habits and how to change them. The
SCARF model and its practical application to the business.
3. Three powerful tools to improve team performance and focus on
business results.
Collaboration is the most important feature of good teams. We´ll work
the “collaboration canvas”. It is well proven that to resolve deficiencies or
weaknesses the best way is to rely on what works well, on strengths.
This the reason that we will practice “ Apreciative Inquiry”. We´ll also
work with Lewin´s “Force field analysis” to identify what helps, and what
hinders, in the achievement of goals.
4. Gamification. Team games applied to improve business results.
A day dedicated to team games, interactive and fun. Games help us
learn avoiding the pitfalls that actual situations can bring about. We
experiment with games avoiding the risks that involve experiments with
real life events.
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5. How Stella saved the farm?
Base on a tale of an animal farm run by the animals themselves. We
deal with the problems related to innovation, rejection of what is new,
rivalries among the different races, threats from competitors ,introduction
of new products and how this introduction affects traditional products.

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6. We all are leaders in the running and results of businesses
Current business performance needs that we all become leaders. The
leaders´ philosophy is an essential tool for change, for strategic
intelligence, for understanding leaders´ followers´ and collaborators
´personalities. We will work on an inventory of strategic intelligence.
7. Immunity to change and its consequences for business results.
Thoughts, habits, emotions and beliefs that hinder change. We will use a
tool called “X Rays” to identify these hinders.
8. For excellent business results it is better to ask than to tell.
What and how are effective questions?- Leading wth questions. We
present and work with different types of questions and practice how to
use them to improve our efficiency in the achievement of business goals.
ADVANCED LEVEL PROGRAMMES 2015-2016
9. Navigating organisations
Companies and organizations are complex institutions and we can
navigate them if we have cues on how to sail.
10. “The hedhog effect”.
Teams are both indispensable and a source of conflicts. In the Winter
hedgehogs come close to protect themselves from the cold . But they
poke themselves when they come too close. This is a metaphor of what
happens in teams and we will find the practices and tools to find the
ideal distance.
11. Do we really know what motivates us and what does not?
What neuroscience tells us about motivation?. What it is that doesn´t
work in the workplace. Not focused leadership, silo mentality,
dysfunctional teams, etc. Autonomy, domain and purpose. Motivation
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12.Good strategy and bad strategy.
Not all strategies bring good results. Some of them are based on
transient fads, on the opinion of “gurus”, etc. Good strategies need that
we think on our own and that we know how to stand different pressures.
13.Re- inventing organisations.
Organisations have evolved hand in hand with different cultures. There
have been phases :Red, Amber, Green and now the time seems to be
ripe for Teal organisations. What are and how we put in place Teal
practices in any organization irrespective of size or industry?
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14.Scenario planning.
A foresight approach that reduces or eliminates the risk that our strategy
is a continuation of the current one Exploration and Exploitation.
15.The brain in business. Limbic leaders.
Leaders who takes into account the working of their own brains and the
brains of others are much more effective and are better valued by their
followers. What is and how is a healthy brain?. How is a brain based
leadership approach?. What does current fMRI ( functional magnetic
resonance by images) tell us about the need for leaders to have a
healthy brain?
16. Holacracy
The management system that eliminates hierarchies. An evolutionary
organization with distributed authority. Holacracy provides the most stable
foundation of current management.
17. Design Thinking
No only for products. We use Design Thinking to think strategically and
to manage change.

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Notes:
1. The duration of all of these programmes is 9 hours.
2. I can present them either in Spanish or in English.
3. In all of them, the language we use and the practices we undertake will
help participants to feel comfortable no matter the size of their
organisation nor their job or position.
4. In all programmes 50% of the time is dedicated to practice and
exercises
Biographical note.
Carlos Herreros is Master of Science in Management , London Business
School 1994/1996. Graduation dissertation with honours: “Strategy systems and
creative thinking”.
Senior coach and Honorary Member of AECOP
Executive Professional Coach Association for Professional Executive Coaching
and Supervision ( APECS, United Kingdom)
Has published 9 books on management and neuroscience.
Applies Neuroscience to Strategic Thinking, Leadership and to Organisational
Behaviour and Management.

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Lecturer and facilitator of workshops and seminars in many universities,
companies and organisations both in Spain and abroad.
Sworn Interpreter of English and French.