Thinking Around Corners 2023
ATPO are very pleased to be once again linking up with
Waterford Local Enterprise Office to deliver these sessions. The five session course, starting on the 5th of September, will be highly interactive with oodles of experiential components and a huge dollop of fun. Moving on from the topics covered in
'Thinking Around Corners 2022'
this online course delves into five more elements of successful business development i.e
Resilience, Pivoting, Ideation, Judgement and Momentum Creation.
As with the sessions in 2022 the idea is to allow participants to check out a range of different and exciting ways of assessing and dealing with problems, creating opportunities and discovering alternative routes to future success.
What are the Key Take-Aways for Attendees:
- Expanding thinking and behaviour skill sets that can be used in your business.
- Reignition of your forgotten skills for use in a business setting.
- The opportunity for you to practice new and different thinking skills and approaches in a supportive setting.
- A wide range of alternative thinking processes and activities to re-evaluate what's possible for you, your staff and your business development.
Who is this course for?
It’s for managers, leaders and entrepreneurs at all levels of development. The course will enable all participants to explore new ways of thinking and behaving in order to develop
- Their own skill sets and
- Their teams opportunities to flourish and most importantly
- Their businesses' future success!
Platform and Format:
5 X 90 minute interactive sessions delivered via Zoom. Maximum 12 attendees per session. Each session will include
- Hands-on experiential activities for attendees to get a chance to trial any method presented.
- A number of ways to apply suggestions and methods to attendees’ business settings.
- An opportunity for attendees to assess how methods and suggestions were trialled in their workplace.
- A framework to fully implement suggested actions within attendees’ business.
- An opportunity to time travel (always useful when checking out new ways of finding solutions).
Here's the Timetable and Agendas for each of these sessions.
Webinar 1 Resilience
Tuesday 5th September 6.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.

Why resilience is vital to business development. How to develop and maintain resilience within your business.
What's not great about too much resilience? How to avoid resilience pitfalls.
Webinar 2 Pivoting
Tuesday 12th September 6.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.

Why pivot? When to pivot? How to pivot your business. Who to talk to and who to really listen to when you need to pivot.
Webinar 3 Ideation
Tuesday 19th September 6.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.

How to use the most effective team idea-gathering exercises. How to introduce and implement new ideas/work practices. Do's and Donts. Embedding new work practices. What works best? Developing new practices/ideas that have been adopted.
Webinar 4 Judgement
Tuesday 26th September 6.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.

How to assess your decision-making skills. How to increase your chances of making the best choices at the right time. The best habits to support effective decision-making. The steps to take when making any important decision. What to do if you make the wrong decision.
Webinar 5 Momentum Creation
Tuesday 3rd October 6.30 p.m. – 8.00 p.m.

How to create, increase and maintain momentum for your organisation's key projects and initiatives. How to identify the vital components and personnel that your organisation possesses to deliver powerful projects.
Registration for all these sessions is now open and you can book here for the five sessions
or
here for individual sessions.





