de Bono's DATT™: Direct Attention Thinking Tools

Work is fast paced and full of action causing many employees to resolve challenges by the seat of their pants with their fingers crossed — hoping their actions won’t lead to problems.

When problems do occur things slow down. Employees have no choice but to stop and clean up the mess. This leads to tremendous frustration on the job for everyone. Why is it there doesn’t seem to be time to think things through before acting, yet, when problems occur, there is always time to stop and think through how to fix them?

If this sounds familiar to you, we can help you turn this behavior around — save your company time, money and effort that you can better put to use on what’s important to your business.

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Develop Skilled On-the-Spot Thinkers

Equip your employees with 10 quick thinking tools. Each tool helps clarify the type of thinking needed based on the challenge. You only use the tools necessary for the challenge. Some challenges may only need the use of one thinking tool. It’s not complicated. The symbols and common vocabulary provide an easy to work with framework that signal team members which tool is in use at a particular moment. It’s easy to have quick targeted thinking together discussions leading to well thought out plans of action—agreed upon and supported.

10 Quick Thinking Tools to Help Keep Your Business on Track

	A.G.O.	Aims-Goals-Objectives
	FIP	First Important Priorities
	O.P.V.	Other People's Views
	C&S	Consequence & Sequel
	RAD	Recognize-Analyze-Divide
	P.M.I.	Plus-Minus-Interesting
	CAF	Consider All the Factors
	K.V.I.	Key Values Involved
	A.P.C.	Alternatives-Possibilities-Choices
	D.O.C.A.	Design-Outcome-Channel-Action

Employees with Strong on the Spot Thinking Skills Will:

• Keep a razor sharp focus on goals in order to keep moving forward to an end result.

• Determine what needs to happen first when faced with a long list.

• Shift from being reactive to becoming proactive.

• Make well thought out decisions that are documented for future reference.

• Consider the views of other people involved to secure buy-in to new solutions.

• Thoroughly judge a situation before taking appropriate action.

• Consider the consequences of an action, plan, decision, or recommendation before taking action to prevent unintended consequences from happening.

• Break a complex challenge into manageable parts to make it more efficient to resolve.

• Broaden the range of solutions considered to select the one with the best impact.

• Action plan for implementation.

Here are four ways you can learn DATT™ tools:

Attend a DATT Seminar

1. Have us lead a customized DATT training event at your organization. Call 818-507-6055 for details.

2. Attend one of our public workshops. View our current dates, locations and registration details.

Become a DATT Certified Trainer

3. Have us lead a DATT instructor certification training event at your company. Develop a group of your own expert trainers that will train your internal clients. Call 818-507-6055 to discuss details.

4. Attend a public DATT instructor certification training event. View our current dates, locations and registration details.

DATT Materials: attendees will always receive the official de Bono Thinking Systems, Inc. materials.

DATT Training Candidates: All employees who are required to think on the job.

• People who have difficulty understanding and seeing the big picture.

• Groups that need to thoroughly judge situations before taking action.

• People who need to shift their thinking to replace obstacles with solutions.

• Groups that make snap judgments that end up being costly mistakes.

• People that want to improve their odds of more consistently making the right call.

"Thinking is the most important human skill both for individuals and society."

- Dr. Edward de Bono

Time Required: 1 or 2 days depending upon your objectives for skill development and application practice. DATT is also an excellent course to consider for short modules when training is conducted by your own instructors.

Our Instructors: de Bono for Business is different. Training is led by highly qualified business experts who understand the fast pace of work and rapid change driving business. Many are successful leaders of their own companies. This is what sets us apart from other training organizations — we live and breathe in the world of business — we understand it. We are results driven.

Book us to present or keynote at your conferences, team meetings and executive retreats.

Call 818-507-6055 to discuss the ways we can add value to your events by stimulating the thinking of your groups.