Knowledge Club introduces sim trainings with skills workshop

Vigor Events, in co-operation with Al Gas Events, is organizing the first simulation training within The Knowledge Club this year Decision Mojo - in Kuwait. The 2-day experiential learning workshop will take place on October 7 and 8, 2018 at the Hilton Resort, Mangaf Burgan Meeting Room. The experiential learning workshop, presented by James Van Der Westhuizen, is designed with the objective for participants to experience various decision situations that are designed to replicate the decisions they face in reality.

Drawing on the most recent research in neuroscience, decision theory and behavioral economics, Decision Mojo is a powerful learning experience that helps leaders and managers recognize key cognitive traps that can cause sub-optimum decisions by learning the very specific strategies for avoiding the traps and making more effective decisions.

The experiential learning workshop should help leaders and managers recognize the cognitive traps that can sabotage a decision process or outcome by practicing a variety of techniques and approaches for making better decisions, learning anticipatory decision strategies for situations participants may encounter in the future, learning how to apply the 8 Disciplines of Decision Acumen to improve effectiveness in both organizational and personal decision situations and applying the appropriate decision-making strategies for different types of situations.

It is worth mentioning that James Van Der Westhuizen is a trusted advisor to many blue chip organizations and leading executives, active since 1998 as the managing member of Know House - a globally respected organizational development and change consultancy active across the African continent, Asia and the Middle East. He led large scale organizational development and change projects for major public and private sector companies such as MTN South Africa & MTN Group, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation and many others. James is also one of the most experienced Celemi solution providers with a track record across all products since 1998 and founding member of Sveiby Knowledge associates, African accreditation partner for Celemi of Sweden.

The experiential learning workshop is part of the Knowledge Club 2018 series that addresses leaders involved in the day-to-day business of strategy execution and decision making. The Knowledge Club, the leading development platform for top organizations in Kuwait, is attended by Warba Bank and Burgan Bank as Gold Members, Commercial Bank of Kuwait and Kuwait Oil Company as Corporate Members and with media support by the International Advertising Association (IIA) - Kuwait Chapter.