image

How To: Become a Practitioner – Learning Outcome 8 – Problem Reframing and Resolution

07/08/2024 | 0 min read

How To: Become a Practitioner – Learning Outcome 8 – Problem Reframing and Resolution

This webinar makes up part of our How To: Become a Practitioner series. These webinars are aimed at members looking to take the next step in their membership journey and achieve Practitioner membership status, and at our existing practitioner members wanting to equip themselves with ongoing skills and insight, allowing them to meet their sustainability goals. Created and delivered by IEMA approved tutors, each webinar in the series covers the knowledge requirements for the 13 learning outcomes that make up our Practitioner standard. Take a look at our website for more information on the series, to catch up on previous webinars and book onto the next ones!

 

In this webinar, James Smith discussed learning outcome 8, "Identify problems and assess opportunities that deliver innovative and sustainable products and services", as the ability to innovate, to introduce new ways of thinking, new ways of seeing the world, new ways of feeling and valuing life are all crucial in the search for a sustainable future.

"The ability to innovate, to introduce new ways of thinking, new ways of seeing the world, new ways of feeling and valuing life are all crucial in the search for a sustainable future.  The place to focus this search is not in what we already know, but in the search for new intelligence.  It’s about facing the unknown and being with how that might want to appear in our lives.  The opportunity sits in how we explore the unknown, the problem is understanding how this works in our lives.  This session will take an innovative look at innovation.  It’ll focus on how we innovate within ourselves, how innovation takes place in our lives and how by understanding these inner processes we can seek to become more innovative."

Presented by

James Smith

James Smith is a futurist and intensely interested in how new intelligence appears in us from the future. This is at the core of innovation within sustainability. James works with the five intelligences – creative intelligence, doing intelligence, thinking intelligence, monitoring intelligence and emotional intelligence in his coaching work. He searches for new approaches to sustainability challenges within a universal context and developing understanding of human purpose and function within. His professional qualifications are Eur Ing James Smith FIEMA CEnv FIMechE CEng MCQI CQP IEMA Principal Auditor ISO 14001 Lead Auditor.