‘Six Thinking Hats’ is a powerful technique that helps you look at important decisions from a number of different perspectives. It helps you make better decisions by forcing you to move outside your habitual ways o thinking. As such, it helps you understand the full complexity of the decision, and spot issues and opportunities to which you might otherwise be blind. (more…)

Mind Maps

Mind Mapping is an important technique that improves the way you take notes, and supports and enhances your creative problem solving. By using Mind Maps, you can quickly identify and understand the structure of a subject and the way that pieces of information fit together, as well as recording the raw facts contained in normal notes. More than this, Mind Maps provide a structure which encourages creative problem solving, and they hold information in a format that your mind will find easy to remember and quick to review.

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Eric Holt has been recruited as director of strategy by FineArt Inc., a regional glass manufacturer. Jack Derry, CEO of the company has hired Eric for its team building knowledge acquired in its previous job. The firm is about to be beaten by big players. These companies could eventually take over the company. Eric has been hired to build a team composed by six top level management people and to find a way to stay competitive against these bigger companies. So far the company has not used the team system very often. For the CEO the idea behind building the team is that the whole is greater than the sum of its part. (more…)

Few thoughts:

• When starting a project, use the SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-oriented, Time-bounded
• Create ways for people to monitor themselves
• If the company gives bonuses, start looking for ways to link some protion of the bonus to how people are meeting or exceeding the cherished values of the organization (more…)