Two-Day Workshop
Thinking Together
In organizations, teamwork means thinking together. Leaders of all types must be able to think clearly and critically and to help others do so. Both team and organizational leaders will benefit from mastering these three areas of leverage:
* A leader’s own thinking competence,
* A leader’s coaching of direct reports, and
* Leaders promoting system evolution.
Leaders and their teams should be able to use a mutually understood logical process to collaborate and to document their analyses. There are four thinking processes that compose the complete critical thinking framework. Watch this video about the framework Framework Overview which includes demonstration questions from each process.
Secrets of Success
Larson & LaFasto (TeamWork, Sage 1989) isolated eight factors of collaborative success. Chief among them is a clear, elevating goal. Clear goals don’t come from missing facts and vague thinking. Building excitement about a goal requires sound reasoning and relevant facts. Review this article Workshops that build MANAGER Competencies about the competences managers should have to lead successful projects.
Systems Thinking
Systems reflect the quality of organizational thinking. The Critical Thinking for Leaders workshop improves an organization’s thinking IQ, providing a framework that optimizes the focus of team members on working through a common rational process. Systems are improved as a natural result of the elimination of root causes. Better thinking about present issues leads to better projects, procedures, and systems. It is up to the leaders to foster the best possible thinking of their people through the leverage areas available to them. Collaboration is an under-utilized area due to poor tools. Without an agreed upon process teams can spin their wheels about how to work together anew at every meeting. The most dominate team member influences the process and logic of the collaboration suffers. Teach your leaders and their teams a better way.
Workshop Methods
Workshop methods include practice on case studies, skill building exercises, and meeting simulations which all lead to the applications to current organizational concerns volunteered by workshop participants. We can work with you to document cost savings from issues resolved within the workshop. These savings can easily be 10 to 50 times the cost of the training itself. Let’s discuss this option.
This workshop is a specially adapted version of the Critical Thinking workshop incorporating leader concepts, exercises and supplemental reading.
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