Benefits for clients/companies:

• You choose the themes and issues that your top talent will explore in a safe environment that allows them to escape the tyranny of the bottom line without disrupting their busy schedule.
• You embed fresh thinking into your company’s genetic code by giving your pressured executives the time and the space to enjoy open-ended learning.
• Your people get to read inspiring, thought-provoking business titles that are shaping current thinking and practice, and that serve as a stimulus to self-directed and shared learning.
• Your executives share a self-sustaining learning experience that adds a new dimension to team dynamics, and stimulates further discussion outside the meeting room
• Your executives explore innovative ways of applying new tools and techniques into their work.
• You achieve cost-effective individual and group management development, knowledge management, knowledge capture and wisdom management with no lost work days and no travel.
• You can make your company's collective intelligence cascade down through all management levels.

Benefits for participants

• For a couple of hours, your people can forget deadlines and performance-driven pressures as they immerse themselves in a world of new and challenging ideas.
• Using the books as a launch-pad, participants set their own agenda as they engage in a lively debate around issues that would not usually feature in management forums.
• The facilitated discussions act as a safety valve for debating sometimes difficult issues.
• Participants are encouraged to think, rather than being told what to think.
• Participants make their own decision as to whether the books or the ideas have any value - every opinion is valued, and there are no wrong answers.
• This is their space, their time, and their opportunity to extract what they want from discussing the books.
• Minimum time investment: just 2 hours every 2 weeks, plus pre-reading 50 pages.
• By making participants more aware of how others interpret the same information, they form a more organic relationship with their peers.