Jan-Erik Tarpila

Jan-Erik Tarpila Work Facilitation Arena

I am active with following occupational challenges with my customers
  1. Facilitation – Business and Organizational Development Facilitation and General Meeting Facilitation, i.e. facilitating development and planning processes in mainly large industrial, public organizations and non-profit NGOs. I use various facilitative approaches to dialogue, like
    • Various dialogue circles, Appreciative and Constructive methodologies, Earth Culture practices, Future Search, Open Space Technology, Social Simulations, World Café, Dynamic Facilitation, Action Pedagogy.
  2. Leadership and self development coaching – to increase participants’ emotional, social, situational and intellectual sensitivity, mainly based on
    • Organizational Retreats, Dialog Workshops and Learning Through Experience activities. 
  3. Training – management and personnel training connected with facilitative approaches to develop operations, organizations and individuals. Recent topics:
    • Organizational Development, especially Participative Organizational Development and Leadership,
    • Operations Management, e.g. Project Management, Logistics, Production Planning and Control,
    • Facilitation, e.g. Process Consultation, Meetings, Negotiations, Decision Making, Innovation...
    • Work Psychology, Knowledge Management, Behavioral Economics, Applied Philosophy
    • Process Management and Leadership, System Dynamics
    • Business Strategy Planning and Implementation,
    • Change Leadership, Diversity and Conflict Management,
  4. Personal strategy and business coaching – mainly personal coaching for industrial managers, consultants and facilitators but also others within a wide spectrum of diverse contexts.
  5. Research – Action research on building simple and applicable models that help organizations to work with their future from a complexity viewpoint, meanwhile taking advantage of collaboration over functional and mental borders.
  6. Projects – Designing and implementing contemporary models for housing and building processes to support collaborative planning. 
This is what I love to do, and what works with my customers. I want to learn more about it and be able to do more and go further with my customers!
 
  Jan-Erik Tarpila    jan-erik@tarpila.com    +358 40 514 2335