Get More Mileage from your Thinking Time
Managers, business owners, writers, and other professionals like you already know how to think—your job requires it. But as you face new challenges, you may feel pulled in multiple directions or caught in details. That's when knowing Thinking Tactics can help you concentrate, re-orient, and think through issues, so you can get a quality job done, on schedule.
The Thinking Tactics Workshop is a one-day, interactive class, with lecture, individual and group exercises, and discussion. In the morning, you learn practical techniques to help you concentrate on important tasks even when you only have small chunks of time to devote to them. In the afternoon, you learn how to deal effectively with complex problems that you can't think about all at once, but still have to get done on schedule. See the workshop description here...
San Francisco, Saturday, September 25, 2010—Early deadlines July 23 and September 4—Read More Here....
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The individual gains the most. He learns adaptive techniques that help him make the best use of his thinking time. The methods help him to solve problems—and to realize sooner rather than later that there is a problem to solve. The methods help him to make decisions—and to hold in mind the full context for whether a decision must be made. The methods help him to develop critical thinking and creative thinking skills—and to move flexibly between the two modes of thinking, as needed. The individual gains efficiency in his thinking, efficiency which makes all his thinking more productive—and more pleasurable.
The team gains. All the mental blocks that can undercut an individual's thinking process have parallels in a team setting. A graduate of Thinking Tactics can diagnose why the team is stuck or floundering, and can adapt the techniques from the workshop to help the team get back on track. And if everyone on the team has taken the course, they have a new, common language to help them analyze problems and make progress.
The supervisor gains. Action-oriented thinkers are not just more productive—they are more autonomous. They think through problems one step further. They answer objections before they've been made. They grow into new positions without handholding. This makes a supervisor's jobs that much easier. Read more...
John
Allison, Chairman & CEO, BB&T, the nation's 9th
largest financial holding company, writes: "Having participated in the
'Thinking Tactics' course, I would recommend it to anyone who wants to
improve their thinking methods. The course is particularly helpful in
bringing to consciousness practical techniques to focus your thought process
and overcome thinking inertia. Every participant in the course I attended
found it to be extremely helpful."