School of Talents
Questions and Answers
Q: Do participants get a diploma?
A: No. We work with project related certificates of excellence that give proof of a result driven cocreation effort and the specific talent and input delivered by the participant in the team excerize.
Q: Does the School of Talents replace the traditional education system?
A: No it does not. The traditional education system is great to enter into the theoretical detail of knowledge development. The School of Talents helps to get participants much more willing to open up for theory after finding the need in their participative challenges.
Q: How can business develop in the School of Talents?
A: Business grew up in an era of self interest making use of the available human and natural resources within the environment of the company. In our current era we see that business competes for both the resources and the markets leading into the elimination of all kinds of values rather than contributing to it. Business is gradually been made responsible for such destruction which reduces its competitive chances. Many business seek therefor for reorientation in the field of contributing to social and ecological benefits in an attempt to reconsolidate their efforts in the global community. This however requires totaly new skills and financial models. This they learn in the School of Talents at the same time as they gradually undergo the transformation.
Q: How do you select the coaches in the School of Talents?
A: It is a self regulating process. Expertise gets involved out of self interest and gets most of it by connecting best to participants and the goals to be achieved. Only the best coaches stay because they know how to take optimum benefit and eventually become wellknown in the world for their skills.
Q: How do you finance yourself if tuition does not apply nor grants from government?
A: It is a mistake to consider that everything needs to be expressed in money. Participants bring in their talent, time and energy which are valuables that are more important than a fee. Together we try to achieve something that is both of learning value to the participant as to the coaches and other partners. Among each other we look for the financial means that may be needed. If it is only the participants that benefit then they finance the process, if many more benefit than the financing is done by all together or a government subsidy.
Q: How can innovation develop in the School of Talents?
A: Value creation means that we create things that cannot be bought. If we could buy it we would not have to create it, as simple as that. When we look at our core human values in Sustainocracy we see that we need to reinvent society as a whole and use our knowledge, technologies and skills in a totally new way. All kinds of innovations, in all possible fields, are generate because we find the need and develop together the emerging markets.
Q: Why is self leadership so important?
A: Our education systems were introduced to prepare our citizens for jobs in industrial processes. Skills and obedience were key factors. But the world has changed. Industrial activities have been taken over by robots and human beings need to address the huge challenges of these time. We have no room for obedience anymore but need people who think for themselves. The core values defined in Sustainocracy help them do that.
Q: How can government learn in the School of Talents?
A: A local government brings in the talent of regional development. When confronted with the need to address any of the core human values or wishing to evolve into level 4 participative society, the same government enters a complex transition path of its own functioning. It is not easy to do this transition on its own from within. By participating in sustainocratic processes it already places itself on level 4 and finds out easily about the elements it needs to change in its own governance and organizational structure.
Q: Explain your claim that participants learn so much more than in any other system?
A: There are two reasons. First of all there are these core human values that need to be attended. It is something that everyone can relate to personally. It becomes important. Secondly there is this self-leadership. Participants don't have to ask permission todo something, they contribute with what they best know and do or take initiative themselves. They engage at their own level of experience and expertise. They encounter their limitations and develop their own eagerness to learn more seeking where they can best find it, through internet, teachers, peers, coaches, etc. It becomes a self learning commitment with oneself.