Dates: Monday, 22 February, 2010.
Location: The Centre Club,
123 South Westshore Blvd, Tampa, Florida 33609.
On-line credit-card registration below. Checks accepted.
One day. Includes continental breakfast, three-course lunch, all refreshments and snacks in luxury surroundings. Free parking.
Start. Registration 8.45. Course starts 9 a.m. End. 5.00. p.m.
Cost: $399. Discount: $50 for early registration (5 business days).
Suitable for: Professionals, managers, “knowledge workers”, specialists, project team members, those who work with partners across distances, and anyone who has to solve problems, deliver results, synthesize information or make decisions.
The Age of Complexity has created an urgent need for excellent thinking. National wealth, community prosperity and individual career success are directly related to the ability to think critically, systematically and logically. Organizations require their people to be able to think well, both individually and collaboratively with groups of people. Our economy also rewards the ability to communicate the results of thought across distances.
Why CPS’s interactive, accelerated thinking workshop?
CPS are experts in the area of training good thinkers to think even better. This program organizes and focuses your “toolbox” of thinking skills, so that they are easily available, for best-practice use, when you need them.
These tools include:
- Differentiating between facts and opinions, overcoming groupthink, naming “unspoken elephants.”
- Building powerful, effective tools to solve problems, and creating trust, safety and clarity so that thought-sharing can co-exist with powers and politics. These include Kaizen cultures; idea-welcoming cultures; the third solution concept; Intel’s ‘disagree and commit’ technique etc.
- Collaborative, coordination and systems thinking.
- Building frameworks: vision, systems and process thinking.
- Mapping business processes and systems.
- Identifying your thinking strengths, and pinpointing your team’s thinking strengths and best thinking roles.
- Identifying and planning solutions to your individual thinking challenges, and your team’s most common thinking roadblocks.
Some of the techniques the group will practice include:
- Consolidating the thinking platform.
- Moving thinking up towards higher conceptual levels.
- Ichikawa and the five whys.
- Problem solving models.
- Project management thinking.
- Using globally-recognized formats over distances – e.g. Pareto charts, SWOTs and SOARs, weighted decision matrixes.
A custom version of the program is available. In the custom version, CPS often bases the workshop on specific problems or issues within the client organization. Each tool is then applied to existing organizational issues, so that participants make real progress towards using their thinking tools, as a group, on their own specific challenges.
