Have you or your team ever been frustrated with your results and somebody said, “you need to think outside the box”? Your box is your current way of thinking. It is your unique way of seeing the world. It is the reason for your successes and it gives you blind spots. To think outside the box, and get new results, you first need to know your box.

During this one-day workshop Sino-Associates’ BOX certified facilitator Erik Barnes will guide you through the self-exploration and breakthrough thinking of the BOX Experience.

By the end of this training, participants will better understand themselves and each other. They will have a common language around goal setting, breakthrough thinking and how they show up at work and in public.

Each participant in the workshop will receive and experience the latest version of the BOX.

Objectives:

•          Create awareness of one’s own “box” and how it helps and hinders

•          Recognize our “public self”, i.e. the part of our BOX we share with others

•          Explore our “inner self”, the unique ways we have of seeing the world

•          Achieve critical goals by optimizing strengths and overcoming blind spots

•          Establish a language for talking about self, goals and breaking through old thinking to bring new results

Key Learning Points:

Awareness: Understanding your public and inner self and what makes you unique

Breakthrough: Identifying specific areas of public and inner self which are the “low hanging fruit” for achieving new results

Confidence: Knowing what makes you succeed as well as what you need to change to go to “the next level” provides focus and motivation

Target Group:

Leaders who want to see breakthrough results, HR professionals who want to provide tools in self-awareness, teams that want to increase their innovation and creativity, change agents, anyone who wants to know themselves better while having fun

Agenda (From 9 am to 5 pm)

•        Introductions and workshop overview

•        What is the BOX?: The components of your box and how it helps and hinders you

•        Public self: What you show to the rest of the world, the impressions you give to those around you

•        Inner self: How you understand the world, what motivates (and demotivates) you, your fears/aspirations and your blind spots

•        Photo safari: using your BOX to think outside the box

•        Success: new, better results require a new better approach (i.e. an improved BOX!)

•        Action plan: wrap up the day by looking at all that what changes need to be made to get the breakthrough in results we desire. Specific actions to open the way to the specific results we want.

Trainer info:

After finishing his MBA in 2003 Erik Barnes found his passion in all aspects of people development. As a consultant he worked with assessment, coaching and training clients in a variety of Fortune 500 clients. Starting in 2006 Erik joined Microsoft’s Sales Readiness team where for eight years helped develop and deliver training for sales and marketing staff in the Greater China Region. During this time, he delivered a variety of in-class and virtual trainings for teams in the region and around the world.

Following this Erik was once again involved in the people development consulting during which he designed and delivered courses for clients in industries as diverse as FMCG, automotive, IT and financial services. Erik has taught workshops in Europe, the US as well as around Asia.

Erik’s most recent return to the corporate world was a senior manager at a Big Four firm. For three years Erik helped to design and deliver content as a faculty for the PwC You Plus program. He did this for both B2C and B2B corporate clients. As he was there from the beginning, Erik was involved in many aspects of the marketing and content development as it transformed into a trend setting program.

Erik delivers in English, Chinese or bilingual as to client’s needs. His training delivery style is active, engaging and professional.