Institute for Management Studies April Seminar with Dr. Iris Firstenberg: Achieving Extraordinary Results Models for Innovative Thinking

    LOS ANGELES, CA, March 19, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Institute for Management Studies (IMS), a leading organization in executive leadership and management development, will be holding a full-day seminar titled "Achieving Extraordinary Results: Models for Innovative Thinking" on Tuesday, April 9th, in Los Angeles, California. The seminar will take place at The Double Tree Hotel, 120 S Los Angeles Street, starting at 9:00 AM.

IMS may be a familiar name in executive management seminars. Four weeks prior, on March 7th, they held a seminar on "communications". Successful organizations operate on the edge of chaos and embrace risk, error, and ambiguity, while practicing strategies that reduce the need for doing, undoing, and redoing. On April 9th you will learn key strategies and practical tools to give you the adaptive capacity to work creatively with change and uncertainty. We will discuss strategies for tapping the human potential for creative thinking, from the inception of ideas to their transformation into practical business strategies and innovations.

Speaking at the "Achieving Extraordinary Results" seminar will be Dr. Iris Firstenberg. Dr. Firstenberg is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles and Adjunct Professor of Management at the UCLA Anderson School. She teaches courses on problem solving, decision making, and innovative thinking in both the psychology department and MBA programs. In UCLA Anderson Executive Education programs, Dr. Firstenberg has taught for many years and is consistently one of the most highly rated instructors.

Registration for this and future IMS sessions is limited to sponsoring organizations. To learn more about the "Achieving Extraordinary Results" seminar or to see if your organization is eligible for registration, visit the Institute for Management Studies Website at: http://www.imsla.net

About IMS
Established in 1974, the Institute for Management Studies has created some of the most innovating management development training series for its time. The IMS approach is based on direct interaction with some of the most prominent management minds in the world. Members of IMS benefit from a comprehensive education in management skills, with employees becoming more confident decision-makers and more effective leaders.

If you would like to know more about the "Achieving Extraordinary Results" seminar please call Errett Cord at 949-791-7097. You may also e-mail Mr. Cord at losangeles@ims-online.com. To learn more about the Institute for Management Studies, please contact their website at http://www.imsla.net

IMS provides its members with the most innovative and cost-effective management development series available. The membership approach allows IMS to bring in top faculty and programs at a cost much lower than individual organizations can typically provide.

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Alumna’s Fulbright Fellowship Results in Book of Amazon Myths

When Fulbright scholar Mallory Massie ’11 wasn’t serving as a language assistant at the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana in Iquitos, Peru, she was teaching creative writing. The Amazon myths and legends that her students wrote about will be published this spring in a book being funded by the United States Embassy in Lima, Peru.

“I’m really proud of all my students,” said Massie, an English and Spanish double major. “They all worked very hard and were fully engaged in the creative process.”

Massie earned a Fulbright scholarship to be an English teaching assistant in Peru from February to December of 2012. On weekdays, she assisted a language teacher at the university, but found the university didn’t have the financial or technological resources to support a proper English learning and writing program. Massie offered to teach a creative writing workshop, similar to the one she took at LMU, to help her students learn English and tap into their creativity.

“I loved sharing creative writing with my students, because my professors had shared it with me,” Massie said. “Creative writing moves students to explore, and it’s a great tool for motivation. Also, it can really help when a student is learning a second or third language.”

About 16 students met with Massie on the weekends for two hours. They wrote short stories and poems based on the myths and legends of the Amazon they grew up hearing. Massie submitted their work to the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru, which approved a book compilation. The book also includes a teaching component, so that it can be distributed to schools as a teaching resource as well. 

“It’s thrilling for the students to be able share the myths of their culture with the rest of Peru and the U.S.,” Massie said. “The stories are interesting, relevant and easy to understand.  It’s also a great reading tool that uses language in creative ways.”

Massie plans to pursue a master’s degree in bilingual education and get her teaching credentials. She hopes to teach English as a second language.

“I’ve always wanted to pursue teaching in some way,” Massie said. “I really appreciated this opportunity to explore and succeed.”

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