Services
Executive Development and Organizational Training
– TDA Associates offers customized executive development and organizational training programs.
– All programs are offered in on-site and live online formats for groups worldwide.
– All programs can be delivered in English, Japanese or Portuguese.
Training Topics Overview Video
We also offer consulting and facilitation services for top management strategy sessions as well as for innovation teams and projects.
Examples of Work by Client Type
Businesses
- New product, business, strategy development teams
- Global manager training programs
- Training in thinking skills for business
- Top management strategy session facilitation
Universities
- Short-term global training programs for students
- University idea groups for corporate innovation
- Transdisciplinary project work
Government Agencies / NPO's / NGO's
- New program development facilitation
- Transdisciplinary policy development
Course Outlines
💡Creative Problem-Solving
Individual Course
🌎🤝 Multicultural Teamwork
Individual Course
🧐 Customer Insight
Individual Course
🧠 Wise Thinking Skills
Individual Course
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the TDA Associates difference?
- All content is developed and delivered personally by the company founder, a former top university professor of management as well as global marketing executive, with over 25 years of experience delivering such courses to Global Fortune 500 companies.
- All courses feature unique content and approaches which are not offered elsewhere.
- Other companies may offer training in either thinking skills/problem-solving skills, or cross-cultural skills, but not both. TDA is unique in that it focuses on developing thinking, problem-solving and leadership skills with multicultural teams.
- Training content and learning activities are fully customizable to customer needs.
- Courses can be delivered in English, Japanese and Portuguese.
- The instructor typically delivers courses to an international audience, so his English is easy to follow for non-native speakers.
How long are your courses?
- In general, course length depends on client requirements for content breadth and depth.
- In the face-to-face format, individual courses typically take 2-3 full days, while the master course (Global Wisdom Leadership) typically takes 3-5 full days.
- Additional time may be needed for post-training group project work (for example, creative new business development projects) as requested by the client.
- Live online courses typically are half-day (3-4 hours) modules spaced over twice the number of days as the face-to-face course, often over the course of several weeks.
How much group work is included in courses?
- Typically, the ratio of lecturette time vs group work time (usually using the tools shared by the instructor) is 1:4, allowing ample time for group work (often using live problems the participants themselves bring in) as well as feedback from both the instructor and other participants.
- When on-demand videos are used in place of the live lecturettes, most of the time during the live course itself is devoted to practice and group work.
- If post-training group work on projects are part of the training, this further extends the practice time.
Do you have on-demand videos?
- Currently we have both English and Japanese versions of the Creative Problem-Solving course in online video format. We are developing an upgraded version of this same course, as well as online versions of all the other courses.
- These videos are often incorporated into live online courses to optimize the amount of time spent in live online sessions.
- Videos have accurate closed-caption subtitles burnt into them for easier understanding by non-native English speakers.
- Please inquire if your organization may be interested in on-demand access to just the videos for your employees.
What course materials are included?
- For all courses, the PowerPoint materials are shared along with templates for the tools used in the courses for later use by participants.
- The Miro online whiteboards used during the live online sessions are saved and accessible by all participants after the course for their reference.
- For courses using online videos as part of the course, the full transcript will also be made available to all participants.
How many participants can join a course?
- Typically, we limit the number of participants in a course to 30 participants. Depending on the course, it may be possible to increase the number of participants, with the understanding that the quality of training may have to be sacrificed.
- Back-to-back training of multiple groups is possible for a significantly larger number of participants.
What is the pricing for your training?
- We base our pricing on billable consultant-days, which typically includes customized content creation time, course delivery time, and any post-training team facilitation, coaching or presentation training when needed.
- Please inquire for further details.
How is💡Creative Problem-Solving different from design thinking?
- Creative problem-solving (CPS) is a more general kind of problem-solving process which has been around since the 1960s, and our Three Diamond Process encompasses all steps and is easy to use. CPS can be used to develop innovative solutions to any kind of organizational problem or challenge.
- Design thinking (DT), on the other hand, is typically focused on finding customer-centered solutions for new products, services, businesses, etc.
- Adding our Customer Insight course to the front end of our CPS course will make the combined offering comparable to DT.
What is the 🌎🤝 Multicultural Teamwork difference?
- We offer a unique Cultural Triple Zoom approach which combines what we call a Global Zoom using cultural dimensions (developed by people like Geert Hofstede, Robert Hall, the GLOBE Project, etc.) with a Country Zoom level of core values (as developed, for example, in the Cultural Detective series).
- In addition, we add a third level we call the Micro Zoom to decode surprising individual cultural phenomena using our own transcultural insights (TCI) methodology.
What is your 🧠 Wise Thinking Skills course about?
- The idea for this course originally came from Japan, where practical wisdom tends to be expected of and valued by leaders. There, social intelligence emphasizes a spirit of cooperation not only within the organization and with direct stakeholders, but also harmony with society and the environment.
- Our Wise Thinking Skills course combines this practical wisdom with other more “Western” thinking tools into what we call the “Balanced Tripod of Wise Thinking.” This approach offers an array of tools for creative, critical and normative thinking.
- We have also developed a unique framework for developing a more Western kind of wisdom, intellectual wisdom, through TDA (transdisciplinary analogy). This process helps internalize a personal system of what we call “metaconcepts,” or core-shared concepts, across all disciplines. This then forms the foundation for personal wisdom.
- Our Global Wisdom Leadership course also includes the Balanced Tripod of Wise Thinking skills.
What is your 🌐🦉🏆 Global Wisdom Leadership course about?
- Our course focuses on what we call the “3V’s of Global Wisdom Leadership”: Multidisciplinary Viewpoints, Multicultural Values and Leading with Vision.
- Since this is our Master Class, we include the essence of our other courses in Wise Thinking Skills, Creative Problem-Solving and Multicultural Teamwork.