Today’s business environment is best described as VUCA – Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. VUCA is the expression of the fact that the rate of change is outpacing our capability to adapt. As a result, businesses, industries, and careers are being disrupted faster than ever before. We must seriously rethink how we lead ourselves, others, and our organisations.ProCESS (Processing Complexity with Emotional, Sensorial and Spiritual capacities) will invent new ways of training student managers and current managers on how to address complexity, with the main lever being the development of “SES (Sensorial / Emotional / Spiritual) Skills”, on an equal basis with “hard skills” and “soft skills”.ProCESS aims to:1) Develop a methodology to deal with complex management cases through alternating sequences of mobilisation of Sensory, Emotional, and Spiritual (SES) intelligences, in addition to rational capacities; 2) Test this methodology on real business cases; 3) Train new types of trainers (philosophers, artists, architects,..) in SES Skills and develop a new niche of activity for them;4) Transpose this methodology into existing bachelor and master degree programmes as well as lifelong/vocational training programmes. ProCESS will involve 192 students from France, Romania, Finland and Latvia, who will be coached by academic and company coaches from 4 universities and 4 companies, and by SES Skills trainers. Exploitability and replicability of ProCESS will be verified in private and public sectors such as vaccines, health, public services, ITC, telecommunications and vocational training. ProCESS’ new training approach will improve agility in decision making of current and future managers for more performance, give rise to new teaching profiles/fields, and lead to sustainable changes in management habits and more well-being at work.
The aim of ProCESS is to teach current and future managers to break out of traditional thought patterns, complement traditional methods of analysis, upset their established intellectual order, broaden their perspectives, and aid them in the ability to de-centre themselves, through the mobilisation of their Sensorial, Emotional and Spiritual Skills (SESS).
In the Western world, rationality tends to be seen as the main, or even the only way to interpret reality in a serious and objective way. The premise behind ProCESS is that it is vital for us to leave behind this supremacy of the rational in Western education and (re)introduce training in sensory, emotional and spiritual skills, which we call SES Skills.
<< Background >> In the Western world, rationality tends to be seen as the main, or even the only way to interpret reality in a serious and objective way. The premise behind ProCESS is that it is vital for us to leave behind this supremacy of the rational in Western education and (re)introduce training in sensory, emotional and spiritual skills, which we call SES Skills. << Objectives >> The aim of ProCESS is to teach current and future managers to break out of traditional thought patterns, complement traditional methods of analysis, upset their established intellectual order, broaden their perspectives, and aid them in the ability to de-centre themselves, through the mobilisation of their Sensorial, Emotional and Spiritual Skills (SESS). << Implementation >> ProCESS included 9 partners (4 HEIs, 5 Enterprises incl. 1SME) from 4 countries (France, Finland, Latvia, Romania). It was led by UCLy (Lyon catholic university), France. It lasted 39 months (January 21-March 24), and was organised around 7 work packages and 3 annual rounds of activities. It involved 185 students and 48 staff members. 29 applicants obtained a SESS trainnig certification and 28 entities (partners, associate partners, other external entities) tested the ProCESS training modules. << Results >> ProCESS produced 31 deliverables, including 5 SESS training curricula, 1 online tool to evaluate one's SES Skills, 1 compendium of 12 business cases that were analysed during the project, 1 guide on ProCESS methodology, 1 catalogue of SESS trainers, 1 competency framework and 1 certification framework for applicant SESS trainers, and 1 compendium of the scientific and professional articles that were published during the project. These deliverables are accessible on https://processproject.eu/