Simply looking can be critical to uncovering opportunities to be more innovative with your meeting. And learning to more richly observe the world is a learnable skill. In this webinar, our special guest, Jim Gilmore, will share material from his forthcoming book, LOOK: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills, scheduled for release on August 23rd on Amazon. Planners, you will learn about an elegantly simple tool to help you look at your meetings, and the destinations where they occur, with a whole new set of eyes. So come and improve your “visual intelligence” by: • Learning to look with the Six Looking Glasses method • Developing a list of specific observational objectives • Looking “Short and Slow” and “Long and Fast” • Using looking routines and designing looking excursions Moderator: Terri Roberts, Training and Communication with DMAI’s empowerMINT.com Panelist: James H. Gilmore Jim Gilmore is co-founder of Aurora, Ohio-based Strategic Horizons LLP, a thinking studio dedicated to helping enterprises conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. His ideas have been published in many of the world's leading business publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Investor's Business Daily, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Jim is co-author of The Experience Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 1999; Updated Edition, 2011) and Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want (also by Harvard Business School Press, 2007), and co-editor of Markets of One (Harvard Business School Press, 2000). His next book, scheduled for publication in August 2016, is entitled LOOK: A Practical Guide for Improving Your Observational Skills, and will be published by Greenleaf Book Group.

2. The Key to Revamp Your Meeting:
Start With a Good Hard LOOK
James H. Gilmore
Strategic Horizons LLP
www.StrategicHorizons.com

5. L O O K

7. InformationGut Feeling
Logical
Negative
Logical
Positive
Creative
Thinking
about
thinking
Dr. de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats

8. Rules / Routines Practical /
Sensible
Emergency
Control
Explore /
Investigate
Dr. de Bono’s Six Action Shoes
Help / care

9. Looking  Thinking  Acting
InformationGut Feeling
Logical
Negative
Logical
Positive
Creative
Thinking
about
thinking
? Rules / Routines Practical /
Sensible
Emergency
Control Help / care
Explore /
Investigate

11. Six Looking
Glasses
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12. Binoculars
Looking
Looking Across:
Surveying and Scanning
Keeping a Distance
Picking a Vantage Point
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Bifocals
Looking
Looking Between:
Comparing and Contrasting
Pairing Opposites
Altering Directions

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Magnifying Glass
Looking
Looking Closer:
Pausing and Pinpointing
Spotting One Main Point
Finding the Significance

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Microscope
Looking
Looking Around:
Scrutinizing and Studying
Checking for More Details
Shifting the Object

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Rose-colored
Glasses Looking
Looking Past:
Enhancing and Enriching
Forsaking the Flaws
Foreseeing an Opportunity

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Blindfold
Looking
Looking Back:
Looking at Looking
Assessing the Observing
Recalling What & How

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