IDGs Gathering: Latin American Lab-Sessions

Latin American Lab-sessions:

Applying IDG skills in a real organizational crisis.

- Mobilizing a movement towards the IDGs -

Este encuentro será en español.
This Gathering will be in Spanish.
This will be a hybrid event (on site & Zoom)

The Latin American Lab-session is co-organized by the IDG Hub Colombia and has the format of a Lab-Session, where you will be working individually, in pairs, and in small groups around a real organizational crisis scenario. You will work with the question: How would you have advised the company leadership to act in a time of crisis?

You are invited to hear Daniel Perez, CEO and Co-Founder of the marketing research company Views Corp. in Colombia. He will share his experience of a severe internal crisis that they faced within the company in the year 2010. Daniel will share the decisions he and his business partner made to resolve the crisis.

Participants will reflect on the crisis and analyze which IDG (Inner Development Goals) skills he used to manage the situation and what that might mean for organizational leaders in challenging situations today.

The Gathering addresses several inner development skills and qualities, as they were put to the test in a leadership situation.

About the IDGs

In 2015, the UN Sustainable Development Goals provided us with a comprehensive plan for a sustainable world by 2030.However, progress is not happening fast enough. 

There is an urgent need to increase our collective abilities to face and effectively work with complex challenges. This is why we are co-creating the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) - a blueprint of the capabilities, qualities and skills that are needed to achieve the 17 SDGs.

The Inner Development Goals is a non-profit, open-source organization to help us develop the collective inner skills and qualities needed to overcome our global challenges and move towards a thriving world.

www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org

Background

In 2006 Felipe and Daniel created the marketing research company ‘Views Corp.’ in Bogota, Colombia. Today, Views is a multi-latin company with more than 120 employees in the region and highly recognized by its clients as a unique company. The company is founded on the values of being humane and supportive of the human development of all its collaborators, its families, and its stakeholders. Most importantly, “Views” strives for a flourishing society, therefore Felipe and Daniel established three guiding principles for their company: be happy, be robust, and give back to society.

After four years of great results and with almost 50 workers, Daniel and Felipe hit a wall. In 2010, a very challenging situation occurred within the company involving several of their employees, where the company's guiding principles were put to the test. They didn’t know what to do.

When you hit the wall, when you are feeling that your values are being denigrated in your company, how do you make the best decisions for you, your company, and society as a whole? How do you really stay true to your values, even when everybody tells you that you are wrong? Be authentic, embrace your vulnerability, and allow your humility to guide you. This is the journey that these two Colombian dreamers and entrepreneurs have been pursuing in the last decade.

Hybrid Format for Group Reflection

We have designed this Lab Session to have spaces for reflection and inner development—voluntary participation.

During the event, you will have time to integrate individually. Also, if you want, you will work in pairs (on site or in Zoom’s breakout rooms) for 10 minutes to exchange impressions, ideas, and feelings that Daniel and the business case arose in you.

And also, and we really want this to happen, create your own space. Register for a virtual participation, but invite some colleagues of your company, or your organization, of your school, or even your family, so when we say that it is time for group refection, you will have 15 minutes to create a meaningful and transforming dialogue. We want real inner development to happen during this Gathering.