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Shows everyone how to immediately..
• Look at Problems & Decisions Systematically
• Think Clearly & Objectively
• Generate More & Better Ideas Quickly
• Minimise Conflict
• Make Meetings Much Shorter & More Productive
• Confidently Find the Best Solutions
• Make Thorough Evaluations Parallel Thinking
Parallel Thinking with the six Thinking Hats is best understood in contrast to traditional argument or adversarial thinking. With the tradition of argument or adversarial thinking each side takes a different position and then seeks to prove that the other side is wrong. Argument is relied on because we believe that if you remove what is wrong; you will be left with what is right. The reality is that most arguments, and therefore meetings, result in very little constructive output at all, only bruised egos. Parallel Thinking offers practical alternative. It encourages co-operation, exploration and innovation. With Parallel Thinking either sides, or all parties, are thinking in parallel, using the same style of thinking simultaneously. There is co-operative and coordinated thinking. The style of thinking used can be changed in order to give a balanced, objective view of the situation. |
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A simple and practical way of parallel thinking is to use the Six Thinking Hats method - this results in dramatically shorter meetings (up to 70% time saving) and more constructive outcomes. Corporations such as DuPont, IBM, NASA, Prudential, Texas Instruments, NTT, Statoil, Shell and JP Morgan are now rapidly taking up this method.
What you will learn
The process encourages your people to separate fact from opinion, to look fully at both positive and negative options and to get hidden agendas that can sabotage any meeting on the table. It stimulates their innate creativity and helps them discover how to turn seemingly insoluble problems into real opportunities.
Who should attend?
This workshop is designed for all business people who wish to improve team working, hold more productive meetings, generate new ideas and solve problems faster.
It will be especially beneficial to the following groups:
• Strategy teams,
• Project managers,
• Managers and Executives who want greater levels of innovation and creativity,
• Individual contributors and
• Teams working in highly competitive or changing environments. |
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Workshop Outline
The day will include a mixture of teaching and practical Exercises. The aim being for you to leave the workshop with skills, which you have practiced and can, supply immediately on return to your workplace.
• The nature of thinking
• Why we need to change you thinking behaviour
• Why argument is inadequate
• Introducing the Six Thinking Hats
• With very little new thinking is accomplished at meetings
• Tools and techniques focusing on each hat
• Occasional use of Six Hats
• Systematic use of Six Hats
• Frameworks for structuring meetings and focusing meetings
• How to turn disagreements into positive contributions
• Techniques for opportunity thinking
• Programming meetings for a successful outcome
• Creating the action plan.
Details About the Course
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