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The Centre for Creativity Innovation and Design Thinking presents

Acting like Managers a day workshop by Kyla DSouza

from 11thAugust 2014 to 15thAugust 2014.

The timings: 9:00 PM to 11 PM

Cost: Free

Returnable Deposit: Rs. 500/-

Deadline to register 28thjuly 2014

This workshop will redesign you as a better manager/actor in the corporate world. I wouldencourage you all to go through the discipline and change the way you express yourself.

-Cedric Serpes-Centre for Creativity, Innovation and Design Thinking.

WHY THEATRE FOR B-SCHOOL?

"Most of our students who come in have been taught in a very, very non-artistic way as

they've come up through the business world, a very, very linear way," says Mark Powell, an

associate fellow at the University of Oxford's Sad Business School. He has used

Shakespeare's plays to press senior executives in his leadership classes to think about their

work differently.

At Cornell Universitys theatre is conducted through CITE programs. The objective of the

program is to create safety around highly charged workplace issues, facilitating honest

dialogue, self-awareness and organizational learning on four levels: personal, interpersonal,

group and institutional/community.

At MITs Leadership Centre, an innovative course has been designed to practice leadership

under the theme Leadership as Acting. It has leveraged the centres focus on Learning by

doing

Many leading Indian organizations started promoting corporate theatre and motivate their

executives to participate in them. One senior executive from an Indian corporate shares

that to get people to become better leaders, better managers, you have to find ways of

connecting to them personally and theatres is a platform that helps to experiment

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