…let’s start with a story…

A woodsman went working in a sawmill and, determined to make a good impression, he introduced himself to the foreman who gave him an axe and assigned him an area of the wood.

The man, full of enthusiasm, fell eighteen trees in only one day and, for the efficiency demonstrated, he gained the foreman’s praises. The woodsman decided therefore to improve his performance, but, in spite of the efforts, he fell less and less trees everyday.

Since he was dead beat, he told the foreman what was happening and the foreman asked him: “When was the last time you had sharpened your axe?”. “Sharpen?”, answered the woodsman, “I had no time to sharpen it: I was too busy to fall the trees!”.

…why?

The School of Palo Alto works in the field of consulting, managerial training, organisational training and the organisation of meetings and corporate conventions.

And this little story describes, better than any other introduction, the leading values of the School and the mood that feeds any activity. In order to develop one’s potential, everyone needs to confront with different conceptual approaches and to enrich with new perspectives. Involving all the emotional and sensory cores, any time of consulting, communication and training turn into an occasion of personal and professional deep enrichment. The resulting enthusiasm is an efficient instrument that sharpens our personal, social and professional tools. In this way the School of Palo Alto can establish a relationship with its interlocutors that satisfies both the cultural and value profile than the technological and structural one of the organisational context.

Mission

Supplying people and companies with the instruments, the knowledge and the methods necessary to interpret and manage at best a complex reality that changes continuously. Creating a climate of continuous learning in order to gain a conscious and responsible growth that would be more effective in the achievement of organisational results at high quality levels. The School, thanks to its respect and its strong attention to the requirements, desires and objectives of every company reality, is able to customise any intervention satisfying the different requests of support.

Values

Enthusiasm in every performed activity
Passion for the past, present and future history of people and companies
Professionalism in the planning and fulfilment of methodologies and contents of every intervention
Ethics in the respect of those human and structural resources that characterise the reality we act in
Innovation in the proposal of always different and updated paths, activities, themes and contents

School Partner

With some professionals, the School of Palo Alto has established a relation of close collaboration that produces activities and initiatives at the companies, organisational consulting and tenure activities in training inter-corporate and ad hoc tracks.