Our programmes are suitable for nationalisation, government institutes, education institutes, transformation and persona
Stretching Boundaries
Big things happen by taking initiative Take a leap of faith, and start something new. For an initiative to work you need to innovate. For innovation to succeed, you need to lead yourself and inspire your team.
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Initiativez A training company on a mission to stretch boundaries
The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open. Dalai Lama
Initiativez offers exceptional learning experiences focused on leadership, business strategy and impactful communication. So far we have impacted more than 1000 leaders across many industries including oil and gas, media, retail, and financial institutions. Our programmes are suitable for nationalisation, government institutes, education institutes, transformation and personal growth.
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The GCC faces three talent-related challenges
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taking initiative matters in the GCC
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Nationalisation as top priority in the GCC – especially in KSA with 80% of companies implementing this initiative in their recruitment strategy.
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Appropriate Tools – Only 37% of organisations feel that they have the necessary tools and programmes to address learning and development challenges.
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Attracting and Retaining top talent is one of the most pressing challenges HR Managers face in the GCC
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Employee Engagement is vital to a thriving culture driven by passionate leaders
Our training Initiatives are to provide practical solutions to solve these inherent challenges.
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Leadership Impactful leaders push their limits and lead their teams forward
Leadership Programmes • Leadership boot camp (LBC) – 5 to 7 days (executive, middle management) • Women’s Leadership Boot Camp (WLBC) – 5 to 7 days (all Management levels)
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Leadership boot camps outshine theoretical training programmes because leadership can only be learned by doing
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Our programmes are ILM-approvedt (Institute of Leadership and management), UK
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These programmes are designed to stretch personal boundaries and push individuals outside their comfort zones
• Aspiring Leader Boot Camp – 1 to 2 weeks (Male, Female) 16-24 years old
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“The training experience was super effective in delivering key aspects of leadership and team building behavior.
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Leadership Bootcamp (ILM) In a leadership development study, 71% of organisations say their leaders are not prepared to lead them into the future.
The type of activities and materials provided were inspirational and took us out of our comfort zone that fueled creative problem solving ability and rapid thinking. My team leveraged many of the learning’s we gathered throughout the week and put it into action into their day-to-day jobs.“ Ahmed Saab, Ministry of Economy and planning - Saudi Arabia
Brandon Hall Group 2015 Study
The Programme
Key Benefits
• LBC is a week-long boot camp designed and developed by Initiativez for the GCC market
• Learn to lead self, team, and your organisation with awareness, influence, and strategic understanding
• Our boot camps are accredited by the Institute for Leadership & Management (ILM)
• Build self-confidence when taken out of your comfort zone
• Delivered by experts with exceptional military training backgrounds • Customised versions of the boot camp are available for all management levels, Aspiring Leaders (high school and university students) and women’s leadership.
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• Manage the ripple effects of your decisions • Communicate effectively and master giving and receiving feedback • Perform under pressure and encourage the team
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The Programme • WLBC is a week-long women’s leadership boot camp designed and developed by Initiativez for professional women in the GCC • This boot camp is accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)
Women’s Leadership Bootcamp (ILM) Globally, the world is striving to have more women in the work force and in management roles because it makes strides towards economic prosperity. Case in Point, only 15% of female graduates in Saudi Arabia have jobs. This is a massive opportunity for organisations to make Saudi’s vision 2030 a reality.
• Delivered by experts with exceptional military training backgrounds • This programme focuses on pressing challenges that women face such as self-confidence
Key Benefits • Learn to lead self, team, and your organisation with awareness, influence, and strategic understanding • Build self-confidence when taken out of your comfort zone • Manage the ripple effects of your decisions • Communicate the good and the bad and master giving and receiving feedback • Perform under pressure and encourage the team • Lean-in and gain support for your career path and embrace a safe environment for self-exploration and risk-taking
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Business Strategy
Business Strategy Programmes
Strategic decisions shape
• Advancing Innovation LUMA – 2 days
the future of your organisation
• Finance Awareness & Strategy BalInCa Plus® – 1 to 2 days (Mini MBA) • Strategic Team Building
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Inspired by innovation labs in the White House and Stanford University, our innovation programme strategically solves wicked problems.
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Good business strategy is driven by understanding numbers. Our simulation is the best methodology to learn finance and strategy – Mini MBA
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Success comes from teams working together effectively. Strategic team building is vital to all levels of organisation management
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Advancing Innovation A study by The Design Management Institute found that companies that use Design Thinking outperformed the S&P 500 by 219% over the last decade, Our partner Luma-Institute has over 44 years of experience infusing Design Thinking in organisations such as the innovation lab in the White House, The Singaporean Government and Honeywell.
It also sparked instant teamwork and collective action. We came up with innovative solutions that don’t require rocket brainpower nor rocket budgets”
A Taxonomy of Innovation by
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Dr. Hatem Samman, Chief Economist, Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority
Key Benefits
LUMA - Institute developed 36 innovated frameworks that are universal and scalable. By using these frame-works, companies developed the following six behaviours: Empathetic
“I truly enjoyed LUMA innovation workshop! It simplified complex frameworks and made them easily digestible by everybody.
You can make innovation happen in any content!
• Collaboration: Working together across disciplines and across organisations to create something new • Empathy: Better understand and share the feelings of your clients to help them meet their needs • Questioning Develop effective solutions by approaching problems from a different perpective • Visualisation Giving from to thoughts and words in order to think, collaborate and test in an open and transparent way
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• Breakethroughs Using innovation to push through challenges and create new business value • Agility: Being able to adapt quickly and efficiently to today’s ever-changing competitive landscape LUMA Experts from Stanford University
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BalInCa Plus® is an engaging business simulation that builds financial awareness, offers an understanding of investment and financial analysis and shows the undeniable correlation between strategic decisions and the bottom line.
Finance and Business Strategy (Mini MBA) BalInCa Plus® is an engaging business simulation that builds financial awareness, offers an understanding of investment and financial analysis and shows the undeniable correlation “I have found a significant change in the way I make decisions and tackle finance based problems at work. The interactive experience and gamification methodology that Initiativez uses means you really get to tackle real problems and are forced to address them” Ahmed Abusafia DP World
between strategic decisions and the bottom line.
The Programme
Key Benefits
• Most Practical learning methodology for financial awareness comes in the BalInCa Plus® business simulation
• Interpreting financial statements, income statements, and cash flow statements
• Developed by a Belgian organisation with 50 years of industry experience utilised to create BalInCa Plus®
• Understanding annual reports, key indicators, and the financial performance of a company
• Not just finance for non-finance but also financial business acumen for strategic decision makers • Ivy league MBA programmes use simulations similar to this and their students experience running a business
• Financial mastery for roles such as sales, marketing, non-financial managers and entrepreneurs • Seeing the bigger picture and the impact of strategic decisions on the bottom line
’Know Your Numbers’ is a fundamental precept of business. Bill Gates 18
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Strategic Team Building Bespoke workshops No one team is the same. Our approach to building teams is bespoke - custom designed to your needs. To meet your quest for a higher performing team, we match your challenges with suitable and effective solutions. We believe enhancing performance happens when you stretch the learning Boundaries and push individuals outside of their comfort zone. The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is open. Our goal is to facilitate a meaningful discussion and present you with measurable business results.
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What is guaranteed? • Team bonding with a focus on emotionally intelligent conversation celebrating individual and team dynamics • Qualified facilitation team that engage in powerful conversations that drive your business needs • Outdoor or indoor activity, physical challenges or mental stimulation • Amazing experiences that are fun and energizing
What is possible? • Flexible duration – half or full day events. In some cases it’s been a week long experience • Team Building experiences - delivered either locally or internationally such as Oman and the UK. • Adventures - offsite or even further like the infamous Antarctic Expedition and Everest Basecamp.
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Purposeful Communication Effective communication makes leadership and strategy a reality
Purposeful Communication Programmes • Emotional Intelligence (Self, Teams, leaders) – 1 to 3 days • Executive Coaching • Communicating with Purpose (Presenting, Influencing, Negotiating)
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Our international solutions are customised for the GCC region
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Discover the secrets of getting more in work and life and become a skilled negotiator
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Experience communication programmes designed to stretch your communication preferences and positively impact your results
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Emotional Intelligence Research indicates that on average, emotional intelligence is responsible for 58% of a person’s work performance.
The Programme
Key Benefits
• Insights Discovery® is a highly effective framework for building selfunderstanding and creating effective relationships.
• Improved communication
• Participants receive an accurate personality profile that details strengths, communication styles, possible blind spots and weaknesses, and value to the team among other invaluable insights.
• Greater collaboration between individuals and departments
• Designed to be memorable, meaningful and fun • Enhances personal and team effectiveness, hones leadership skills and creates powerful sales teams.
• Deeper understanding of self and others
• An effective tool used in our coaching programmes • Learning to work effectively with others and diffuse conflict • Improves sales effectiveness Every advance, every conceptual achievement of mankind has been connected with an advance in self-awareness. Carl G. Jung
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Executive Coaching Our executive coaching programme focuses on client needs in order to achieve optimal performance. We focus on three coaching streams: • Career coaching for effective self-awareness, performance management and possible career changes. • Leadership coaching to explore general personal development, leadership effectiveness, and transformation goals. • Business coaching for startups and entrepreneurs.
A full programme lasting up to 12 months may include these five stages of development
• Seeing improvements in individuals’ performance and achieving goals
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Self-Discovery - Using Insights Discovery® personal assessment tool
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Leadership effectiveness - Using Insights Discovery® Transformational Leadership and Insights Navigator®
• Improved relationships with peers, direct reports, management and clients
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True North Discovery - Understanding
• Higher organisational performance and productivity
your value system, leadership style, and
A recent study of Executive Coaching in Fortune 500 firms reported a 529% return on investment and significant intangible benefits to the business.
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Prototyping and Commercialisation – Building and trialing a prototype for a small business and generating revenue and making a profit
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• Greater role clarity and ownership, and job satisfaction
• Retention, better customer service, reduced complaints, cost reductions, increased profitability • Small business / startup support, guidance and personal coaching
Building your business case and learning how to pitch to investors.
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Key Benefits • Tackling negotiations strategically while maintaining relationships
Communicating With Purpose
• Learning to influence others by understanding them and their needs first
Communicating with purpose is about making the conversation you initiate count.
• Gaining the ability to persuade others by clearly articulating purpose and connecting with your audience holistically
We help you understand the mindset and the psychology behind human behaviour so that when you have the floor and communicate, it is with purpose and you have captivated your audience.
• Developing presentation strategies that flex to your audience in any situation • Pitching ideas to win while capturing the hearts of an audience with impactful storytelling of the business case
Our customized modules may include: • • • • • • • •
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Negotiation and influencing others Presentation skills Pitching to win Body language and etiquette Conflict resolution Sales and customer service Engaging the workforce Interpersonal communication and adaptability
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw
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Success Story Dar Al Hekma Creativity Week Need Dar Al Hekma, a leading Saudi university for women, had a vision to invest in students’ selfawareness, relationship building and the ability to overcome challenges for their future. Initiative
Customised Solutions
Creating future female leaders that are equipped to contribute to the Saudi economy after graduation.
New business challenges need innovative solutions. Businesses must innovate to remain competitive.
Mission
Our customised solutions vary from designing a university creativity week, facilitating a strategic board meeting to customising entrepreneurship coaching programmes.
Through experiential learning, students will begin to understand the impact on their future success as a result of self-awareness, effectiveness relationships, innovative thinking and leadership skills. Solution
We listen to your needs in order to address your most pressing challenges.
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Initiativez designed and delivered the 5-day ‘Creativity Week’ workshop for 300 female students on the university campus. A series of activities designed to achieve 3 main objectives where students: 1
Tap into their creative problem solving
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See firsthand the outcomes of utilising innovative thinking
Key Benefits • Access to innovation practitioners and international expertise in developing new training solutions • Local and regional experience guarantees that we understand your audience • Manage the ripple effects of your decisions • Communicating the good and the bad and mastering giving and receiving feedback • The flexibility to work closely with your company to achieve the desired result
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Training Solutions Aligned with GCC Government Visions GCC governments are working tirelessly to achieve their future visions. The Saudi Vision 2030 and National Development Programme, The UAE Vision 2021, and Abu Dhabi’s economic Vision 2030 are all inspirational and we have aligned our mission as a training partner to support the transformation and job creation required to achieve these visions. Our solutions are captivating, very stimulating, and push boundaries taking people out of their comfort zone.
The education sector is also investing in the development of GCC youth and we are collaborating closely to bridge the gap between academia and the corporate world. We provide the opportunity for university students to develop their leadership skills through real practice and feedback in our leadership boot camps and business simulation. The ‘learn by doing’ methodology will equip students to graduate and enter the workforce more prepared than ever before.
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What’s available to you? • An extensive suite of leadership programmes that are in-house or offsite (regionally and abroad), and separate workshops for men and women • Stanford caliber innovation workshops – Learning Luma’s design thinking methods cultivates behaviours indicative of innovative teams. • Financial and business strategy workshops (Mini-MBA) focusing on business acumen for strategic decision making roles • Effective communication programmes customised to focus on sharpening presentation skills, persuasive conversation, influencing others, effective negotiation, and emotional intelligence to better understand others
All solutions are customised to meet the need of your specific government department of university faculty.
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Initiativez team is
Powered Up We are reaching out in KSA, UAE and across the GCC. Bringing you leadership, innovation, financial awareness, strategy, personal effectiveness, coaching and empowerment.
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Empowered by Initiativez
On our mission to stretch boundaries we have partnered with innovative world content creators and reputable accreditation organisations to bring governments, educational institutes and organisations powerful training solutions.
Partners:
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Shereen Tawfiq Founder & CEO
The Story
Behind Our Mission Two extraordinary journeys changed the way Shereen viewed adult learning.
The first journey was a leadership expedition to Antarctica where participants were challenged to lead teams in harsh conditions. The experience exposed basic human vulnerability and put leaders to the ultimate test. The experience was about practicing, not discussing leadership. The lesson here was that effective leadership is an action
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where you have to take initiative. The second was military style leadership training with the U.S Marine Corps. Teams were pushed to their physical and psychological limits. Critical thinking, decision-making and discipline were crucial during this exercise. The takeaway was that discipline and self-control are a critical leadership mindset and needed in our GCC countries.
The company was founded in 2013 with a mission to stretch learning boundaries and take initiative. This became our internal philosophy and what we encourage our clients to do. By now, it is no surprise to you that we called our company – Initiativez. The first programme designed to stretch boundaries was designed and developed to target the GCC. It uses the ‘learn by doing’ methodology like the Antarctica expedition did. And the learning milestones were based around military training techniques. Initiativez, runs this programme in beautiful and inspiring parts of the world to make the experience an unforgettable adventure for every participant. The flag ship workshop has since been customised to address women empowerment initiatives in KSA, as well as aspiring youth across the GCC region in general. So every day, we take the initiative to reach out to companies who are looking to invest in their future leaders with impact and inspiration.
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Take the initiative and contact us today +971 4 420 9899, +971 55 862 5540 (UAE) +966 1 478 9272, +966 54 4714950 (KSA)
[email protected] www.initiativez.com /initiativez
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UAE +971 4 420 9899 +971 55 862 5540 KSA +966 1 478 9272 +966 54 471 4950 +966 54 755 5536
[email protected] www.initiativez.com /initiativez
