All professional areas are moving toward increasing specialization and
sectionalism of their employees. However, at the same time the phenomenon has emerged of
top specialists’ progressive inability to objectify and resolve at their roots the
same specific problems they have been trained to handle. In fact, the technical solutions
in specific sectors lose their creativity and appropriateness to the situation in that
they do not take into account the connections between different more or less contiguous
areas, and the gestalts or structural cycles emerging from them. Specialization shows the
need for a professional figure able to tackle the whole, or key, of a global problematic
context apart from successive sectorial results. Therefore, a specific technician is
needed to identify and evolve the optimal order of a situation with a rationally defined
methodology.At present, in order to interpret and catalogue a state of crisis or
potential development, one proceeds more or less consciously by means of stereotypes,
experiential or empirical inference. The request and intervention of consultants are
launched from this interpretation: economic, legal, psychological, technological, etc.
But, moving from an intuitive hypothesis on the problematic fact means structuring the
analytic terms of the problem on opinion and its subjective limits; thus, these are faced
individually in an approach that already lacks certainty. It is not difficult to
demonstrate how sensational failures of highly qualified interventions are rooted in an
error in approach or interpretation of the overall problematic context. The major reason
lies in the multiplicity of factors at play in a globalized world and in increasingly
rapid transformation (worldwide information, technological development, progressive
empowerment of human capacities, internationalization of markets, competition, open system
enterprises, increasingly exacting and informed consumers, less and less homogeneous and
predictable market sectors, failure of old socio-economic-productive and political
realities).
Training
course
The objective of the course is to
train a strategic, comprehensive, Iso-ontic counselor, a new professional figure,
registered (CCIA 20.11.1997 RM 97COO5645) and recognized in Italy, characterized by a
broad applicative field, responding to new management and organizational needs created by
world globalization.
Competences. The professional trained
by the course possesses a technique of identification and correct interpretation of all
elements and variables at play in any problematic situation—from human to systemic
ones—free from psychological, customary, cultural and experiential type interference.
For this reason, hard and selective training is provided in real self-control and in
cognitive and intellectual processes, in an adequate critical capacity and a basic,
specific, 360-degree functional culture (for example, including real knowledge of the
psychologies of individual foreign markets). The professional is able to provide the
initial objectivity for analytically revealing the common key to the problematic
situations he is faced with, to grasp the solution, and to set up possible further
interventions of specific technicians with scientific certainty. Therefore, Iso-ontic
training typifies a technician of essence able to operate decisively in any context
with appropriate strategic instrumentation.
Applications. The Iso-ontist finds his
ideal position in the current global economic, productive and political horizon, where
there is an increasing demand for management consultancy that is usually comprehensive and
personalized. Typical areas of application include some of the problems most difficult to
manage at the organizational level; for example, organizational succession, competition in
global scenarios, work mediation and organizational relations, participation in tenders
and mediation with public bodies. Positions of decision-making responsibility
(entrepreneur, manager, director) or linking and mediation figures within the enterprise
are the natural recipients of this training; however, freelance activity by the Iso-ontist
is equally valid.
Execution of course. The course will
be taught by university professors and professionals of international renown. It will span
a two-year period and will include a total of 1,200 hours, 700 of which will be dedicated
to the practice of specific strategic instruments. Each year will be divided into three
sessions: summer (March-June), fall (September-November) and winter (January-February). In
the first year, the winter session will be dedicated to practical training and in the
second year, to stages with world experts and to exams. Disciplines include the following.
Epistemic Philosophy, Biophysics, Human Physiopathology, Reading and Analysis of Images,
Psychology of Perception, Political Economy, Law, Organizational Management, Private and
Public Synergies, Iso-Ontic Counseling. Access to the course is determined
by results of an individual exam to evaluate candidates’ natural attitudes and basic
cultural background. Those admitted to take the exam include: diploma holders or
university graduates already active in the work world; university graduates in areas
compatible with Iso-ontic freelancing (Psychology, Philosophy, Education, Social Sciences,
Economics and Business, Political Science, Literature and History of Art).
Scientific consultant responsible for methodology and
contents:
Prof. Dr. Loretta Lorenzini