The New Corporate MultiCulture
To attract and retain quality employees, a primary goal of the emerging corporate culture must be to create an environment of learning and growth. It's no longer enough to learn more technical skills or to understand growth merely as a function of job/career development. Increasingly corporations are understanding that learning life skills: personal growth; emotional, mental and physical wellbeing, and interpersonal skills are key to employee performance and corporate profitability - especially given the fast-growing rate of workplace diversity.
We've moved from agriculture to industry to the information age. Next is the age of relationships. We must know how to widely relate and communicate - not just internet but interpersonal. The successful company requires the smooth functioning of all interrelated parts and people. Relationships are important not just within sectors and strata but across departments and divisions. Salaried executives and management vs. wage-paid employees, kitchen staff vs. wait staff, black vs. white, red vs. yellow - the "us against them" thinking is too prevalent. Differences keep us apart and limit our development.
A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe". He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical illusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind ofprison restricting us to our personal desires and to affections and connection for a few persons nearest to us. We must expand our circle... Albert Einstein
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Thank you for impacting my life! You have an amazing message... thanks for making a difference.
Andrea Okrogelnik, A veda Account Executive
From Albert Einstein to Chief Seattle, Jonas Salk to Norman Lear, West African Elders to Martial Arts masters, we are told of the necessity to develop our capacity for relating to others. It's said that we use only 5-10% of our mind's capacity. Believe it or not, our individual and collective capacities - for productivity, creativity, health and profitability - are tied into our capacity for perceiving interconnectedness and bridging gaps.
The information related to self, care for others and attitude was most useful. This seminar is much more extensive than anyone I have previously attended it embraces all areas: interpersonal, medical and others. It has been conducted in a most fruitful manner - I highly recommend it to any institution and am confident that it will help us in all the job activities.
Sakho Ibrahima, Hotel Plaza Athenee, New York
The New Corporate Multiculture: Discovering Interconnectedness, is a program drawing from 20 years of work with internationally known physicists, physicians, brain scientists, creativity experts, corporate leaders and cultural leaders. It's about a shift in attitude, a new way of turning on the mind and accessing internal resources. Participants will expand their sense of self and their circle of "us", while increasing capacities for innovation, for developing/attracting needed resources, for managing change and improving concentration and health behaviors.
Section One: Presents concepts from cutting-edge science and ancient wisdom, presented in a way that relates to everyday experience, is understandable to all and has a profound impact on participants' perceptions of the world and of themselves. Most people are resistant to change and have a negative outlook built on an us-against-them philosophy. The stresses of resistance and negativity block undeveloped capacities for creativity and productivity. Section one is designed to provide a framework for understanding the power of attitude in new ways, and for inspiring changes in both attitude and behavior that translate into an increased sense of responsibility, resourcefulness and cooperation.
Section Two: Introduces a set of tools designed to facilitate and sustain the newly motivated changes in attitude and behavior.
Section Three: Weaves the concepts and strategies together for application in the intersecting spheres of relationship, health and job performance.
The Continuum Center has worked since 1979 with pioneering neuroscientists, NASA scientists, quantum physicists, medical doctors, corporate, community and cultural leaders, exploring the nature of human consciousness and human capacity. The Center has hosted internationally known speakers including former First Lady of Egypt, Jehan el-Sadat, Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, author Alex Haley, futurist Alvin Toffler, Candace Pert, Ph.D. whose pioneering work led to the discovery of endorphins, and the late Willis Harman, PHD, international consultant to corporations and governments and founder of the World Business Academy. Working in partnership projects with corporations and organizations including the Minnesota Department of Education, The Department of Public Health, First Bank Minneapolis and Minnesota Business Partnership, The Continuum Center provides a new model of human capacity. With a new set of operating assumptions for achieving an effective, healthy life at work, at home, at school or in the community, the Continuum Center custom designs education, training and development programs in a variety of settings.
Jane Barrash is Executive Director of the Continuum Center in Minneapolis and has been working with leaders of science, medicine, education and business, as well as cultural leaders, since 1984. On the forefront of research into human consciousness and human capacity, Jane has organized, developed and delivered programs and training for diverse audiences ranging from corporate and medical executives, professional athletes and teachers, to state patrol dispatchers, high school students, prison inmates and the homeless.