The Five Intelligences

A revolutionary breakthrough that elevates personal development, self-leadership and teamwork to unprecedented levels.

The great demands and pressures of life cause in many of us an inner displacement from our innate potential. The Five Intelligences insight will help you to become aware of the scope of your natural intelligence and to access, activate and bring it into a far more effective deployment.

Context

Personal development is a prerequisite to developing leadership capabilities. The more conscious and well directed, the better the results. The depth and level of our personal development is a major factor in our growth, evolution and personal effectiveness across the whole spectrum of living.

High impact Five Intelligences workshops have been delivered by us in leadership and top talent development programmes and team dynamics workshops for Unilever, Atos Origin, KLM, Pfizer, The Dutch Ministry of Housing & Environment, ASML, Deutsche Telekom and the Crisis team of the Dutch ministry of Traffic & Waterworks.

What is it?
A framebreaking discovery, resulting from three decades of R&D work, The Five Intelligences is a catalytic, highly experiential modality that provides an accurate description and direct connection to the working dynamics of the inner architecture and incredible inherent technologies of our natural capabilities. ‘The Vitruvian Insight’ reveals five inner worlds - five inner generating powers - that define the human capability in a similar way that the five senses define, at fundamental level, human consciousness. The Five Intelligences is a well structured experiential process, customised to the exact developmental and/or strategic needs of individuals, team(s) or target grouping.

The Five Intelligences are:

The Thinking Intelligence
The Doing Intelligence
The Monitoring Intelligence
The Emotional Intelligence
The Creative Intelligence

Most importantly, how they function as an integrated whole, thereby constituting an ever developing, evolving platform for new intelligence.

Important note: The Five Intelligences modality is not a diagnostic/on-line/questionnaire evaluation. It is a full scope experiential process, requiring facilitation skills of the highest order; delivered as bespoke solutions, to enable aspiring individuals and teams to generate a more effective and creative engagement in the process of acheiving their goals and creating dramatic new futures.

What does it cause?
Radical enhancement of the full spectrum of your natural intelligence and its effective application into business practices and all aspects of living.

Deutsche Telekom - Five Intelligences Teambuilding Seminar for the leadership team of the R&D division

"David has worked with us on a two-day seminar for increasing the effectiveness of the management team of our R&D lab.
The seminar has been a great success.
David has achieved this by preparing the seminar very methodically, by conducting it with great flexibility and by adjusting it to the feed-back of the group.
I have the greatest respect for his experience, his energy and his integrity.
I am looking forward to working with David on the continuation of this engagement."

Peter Morckel, CEO / Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, September 2010

What does it address from a personal and organisational development perspective?
A recent Global CEO Study that was conducted by IBM, provides a poignant summation of what prominent corporate leaders perceive as the three greatest challenges that they are currently being confronted by: Increasing complexity, insecurity and volatility. Within this state of affairs, they also defined creativity and integrity as the most sought after leadership qualities.

These ‘trio’ of challenges, together with the calling for creativity and integrity, also define the nature of personal development that is called for from emerging leaders and managers. To do well in one’s career and private affairs, to mentally, emotionally and psychologically survive and thrive in a super-challenging global marketplace, one must be able to personally develop in order to connect to and deploy ever-greater parts of one’s innate potential.

In terms of accuracy and experiential approach, The Five Intelligences is arguably the most advanced and effective modality that practically connects between personal development, leadership and teamwork. Being a true and exact fundamental modality, experiential Five Intelligences workshops create deep, long-lasting common denominators between people, providing a new, very simple to learn, exciting ‘language’ that people who work together then quickly integrate into their communications, thereby contributing to increased interpersonal clarity and most importantly, team effectiveness.

Customised Five Intelligences teambuilding workshops provide the team members with a comprehensive toolkit for their personal development and the whole team with advanced means for the team’s development and evolution – two main outcomes out of one process.

At high organizational level, the assimilation of the Five Intelligences enables corporate leaders and managers to read moods and balances in different parts or the whole of the company with high degree of accuracy and be able to effectively address the root of those issues.

How is it most commonly deployed?
As a fully customised process The Five Intelligences is most commonly deployed:

In coaching - a personal development / self-empowerment tool for life.
As an essential component in top talent and leadership development processes.
In team dynamics and organizational development processes.

Applying The Five Intelligences helps to make the vital connection between human development and new trends and directions in the evolution of new technologies. As an example, helping to understand why the future of technology is so deeply bound up with a shift from product to customer-centered focus, what it means and how to fully integrate this perception into directing creativity and fashioning new strategies.

What about spiritual intelligence?

Spirituality is an evolving property that characterises with special currencies any given phase throughout history. It is the same today, where the powerful spiritual impulse that many of us are experiencing is unique to these times. How we use ourselves determines how much of it we are able to accommodate and apply. The level of our spiritual intelligence is a product of the degree to which the fundamental inner platform of the Five Intelligences is engaged in our life in a balanced and constructive way, intuitively or consciously.

Customised to serve your needs

Five Intelligences workshops - each fully customised to fulfill exact wishes and needs - ideally last for two to three days, as proper assimilation requires space, change of speeds - from super-fast, daily catch-as-you-can to slow down a bit to feel and perceive more - depth and thorough process. So you walk away with what is arguably the most effective development tool that is currently available. (Including a 60-page handout). However, this work can be delivered via a series of short engagements as well, such as morning or afternoon sessions.

The R&D work over the years, coupled with our extensive field experience yielded hundreds of different exercises, applications and workshop approaches to develop each of the Five intelligences and all together, as they naturally function in us as an integrated whole.

As an example, when it comes to developing one's Thinking Intelligence, the approach is customised according to individual needs: Do you need to develop impartial, acute perception capabilities? Do you need to learn to think and make decisions with no emotion? Do you need to develop the efficacy of your question asking arts and skills? Each of the five is a whole inner world that needs to be methodically worked on and developed.

Due to lack of awareness and education, very few people enjoy the full benefit of the five intelligences working in themselves in the way of 'the sum of the whole is greater than that of the individual parts'.

Devising a new break-through strategy that involves a radical change process
Doing business in a tough and challenging cultural environment
Leading a team of hot-shots that need galvanising
Needing to handle and resolve inter-personal conflicts
Needing to develop communication skills that will enable you to perceive and intelligently respond to subtle inter-personal nuances
Having to deal with unyielding psychologies
Pressed into an urgent need to become aware of blind-spots that prevent you from getting the results you need to get
Seeking to put in place a more effective marketing campaign that will appeal to many more people

The Five Intelligences will give you a decisive edge - it is a tool for life