| Topic |
Comments |
| Business Creativity |
Yes. This is our specialty - helping people
unlock their creative potential to boost their profitable idea output. we
will hit home that creativity is a skill that can be learned and that
everyone can learn to be creative. The myths of creative thinking will be
broken. Creativity for bottom-line thinkers is a hot topic. We are experts in the application of Edward de Bono's powerful tools. |
| Business Innovation |
Yes. Innovation is converting ideas to
practical uses and ensuring these ideas are actually receivable. We
hit home over and over how serious the business of innovation is. Our
approach is innovation on demand, a huge paradigm shift for many
people - systematic use of tools, a framework. Much more profitable than
waiting for inspiration to strike. Scientists and engineers like the
approach because it lays the groundwork with the logic enabling them to
become quickly engaged. Marketing people like the approach because it
lays out a framework that enables them to organize ideation sessions that
are more powerful and practical that tap into everyone's thinking. The
results are action oriented. |
| Ideation |
Yes. This seems to be a relatively new term.
It is a great word because it covers creativity and innovation. We
often hears clients say, "We don't have a problem getting lots
of ideas. Our problem is what to do with all of the ideas."
We talk about how to get even better ideas and then how to work with
the output and continue to leverage it for maximum ideation impact on the
business challenge. |
| Change |
We speak on how to think through the
impacts of change and then how to build an implementation plan that
minimizes the risks and capitalizes on the benefits. Most organizations
are weak on this aspect of managing change. In fact, we believe this
is the missing link in many corporate change efforts. This is why so many
change efforts fail - most people do not understand the benefits, or,
there was such a rush to implement the change no one took the necessary
time to identify the weaknesses and then remove them. Most mistakes in
business are mistakes in thinking. In this case, neglecting to think. |
| Team Building |
We speak about accelerating team
performance rather than traditional team building. Very often Accelerating
the Team Performance is uncovered during Six Thinking Hats training -
a hidden benefit of the tool kit. We believe the focus on team building
has held back performance expectations because the emphasis is on the
wrong thing - building a team rather than expecting the team to perform. |
| Sales & Marketing
Product Development
Research & Development |
Yes. We regularly speaks with these groups
and provide them with tools to help land more clients, close more deals,
open more sales channels, generate new product ideas, packaging ideas,
etc. As always, we do not provide the answers, we believe that
expertise lies within client groups. Our expertise is providing the
process and tools that will unlock their thinking power so they can
"out think" the competition. You see, when they develop
profitable solutions they are more likely to support them and implement
them. We are a big believer in helping these people learn how to flex
their own mental muscle to experience creative thinking in a practical
results oriented way. After all, people will naturally resist the
consultant's solutions and recommendations. You can save yourself this
aggravation. |
| Risk Taking |
Yes. We cover the need to risk
thinking time to
reduce the risk of other costly resources." This is responsible
risk taking. |
| Intuition |
Yes. We make the point that gut instinct plays a
significant role in the decisions we make, the ideas we develop and the
actions we take. The key is understanding where your intuition comes from
and the impact it can have if you use it to hold you back from moving
forward to the future; or if you choose to ignore it - the limits it can
place on the quality of your future. |
| Diversity |
We don't speak about diversity directly
from the perspective of the mandated diversity training taking place
across America. We let it bubble up naturally in discussions during
presentations. It surfaces as "Diversity of Thinking."
This is a much more powerful approach to diversity because the shift is
from the person to the "thinking" of the person. It is the
quality of thinking of employees that drives the level of success of an organization.
The key point that always hits home with audiences - "The
only reason you have a job is because of your thinking. People want to and
need to know what your thinking is." |
| Decision Making |
We talk about the need to make good decisions in real
time without all of the information available. If you can't do this you
are dead in the water because you will never have all of the information. There
is just too much of it. For many people, the "aha" is recognizing the impact
over reliance on information has on organizational growth. |
| Problem Solving |
We talk about the amount of time employees spend on
problem solving and the negative impact it has on an organization's ability
to design its own future. We will help you understand the difference
between problem, challenge, and opportunity - a huge "aha" for many people.
This may help explain why you have been having difficulty moving forward
to the future. There is a bad habit in many organizations - the word
"problem" is used to describe everything! |
| Quality |
Lynda produced a video on quality that
recruited over 350 manufacturers around the world to implement quality
systems in the late 1980's. Her presentations today have shifted to how to
improve the quality of thinking inside organizations in order to secure
the market leadership and profit edge. Organizations are starting to
recognize the need to equip their six sigma black belts with process
facilitation tools. We speak from this perspective. |
| Empowerment |
No. We believe if you have to talk about
it you are off track. Empowerment is demonstrated through actions and
earned through actions. |
| Leadership |
If leadership means soft skills to you, we
don't cover this topic in presentations. We do however, cover
market leadership and brand leadership. Again, from
the perspective of learning how to flex your own mental muscle to think
your way to success in these two arenas. |
| Time Management |
No. We've noticed that many clients are
using the Franklin/Covey system and that employees seem very pleased
with this training. Do not under estimate the loyalty and leverage you can
gain by training your frontline employees as it is holistic in approach.
The tools we teache people to use end up saving
enormous amounts of time. This opens up time for people to work on job
challenges that are really important.
|
| Meeting Management |
No. Meeting etiquette has been more than
amply covered at most companies. It has failed miserably as everyone is
still complaining about the amount of time wasted in meetings. We let
this subject bubble up in discussions with audiences. We think the
focus needs to be on how to lead discussions using the appropriate process
tools to resolve the tough job challenges that are being discussed during
these unproductive meetings. We can certainly discuss this in quite a
bit of detail with your group. This represents a shift from meeting
management to meeting productivity to drive business results. |
| Motivation |
We aren't sure what people mean when they
ask for a motivational speaker. We will, however, motivate your group to
take charge of their own thinking to think their way to success. This is
the one of the best ways to boost bottom-line profit because the
thinking power of your employees is your invisible competitive advantage! |
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