Teams that allow time for the creative process are essential for modern, forward-thinking organizations. Part one of this presentation discusses tips and techniques for building a team culture that makes the time for mental breaks and collaborative exercises that promotes creativity and problem-solving. Part two discusses some of the psychological factors that keep us from taking that creative leap forward. Presented by Jeff Stevens and Carlos Morales and the 2014 Summer UF Health Communications Retreat at the Hippodrome.
The document discusses creative thinking and problem solving. It explains that creative thinking uses the right brain to explore many new ideas without judgment, while critical thinking uses the left brain for analysis. The Six Thinking Hats method is presented as a tool to structure creative thinking. It involves assigning different colored hats to represent different perspectives or types of thinking, such as facts, feelings, risks, benefits, new ideas, and management of the thinking process. The document advocates using creative thinking methods like brainstorming to generate many possible solutions before evaluating them critically.
Creative thinking, cv writing and interview skillsAhmed Ragab
Creative thinking involves generating novel ideas and alternatives outside typical ways of thinking. It can be hindered by searching for only one answer, being too logical early on, following rules blindly, focusing only on practicality, and fearing mistakes. The creative process includes preparation, investigation, transforming ideas, incubation, illumination, and implementation. Techniques to enhance creativity include analogical thinking, brainstorming, mind mapping, lateral thinking, and Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats approach.
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The MTL Professional Development Programme is a collection of 202 PowerPoint presentations that will provide you with step-by-step summaries of a key management or personal development skill. This presentation is on "Creative Thinking" and will show you how to become more creative.
The document describes a model of creativity with six phases: inspiration, clarification, ideation, distillation, incubation, and implementation. It explains that creativity involves generating many ideas (inspiration), determining goals and objectives (clarification), focusing ideas (distillation), taking breaks to let the subconscious work (incubation), and determined, persistent work (implementation). Each phase is important for creative work, and people tend to have strengths and weaknesses in different phases.
Creativity is the ability to imagine or invent something new and to use imagination to transcend traditional ideas. The document discusses tools for creative thinking like the Six Thinking Hats method, paradigms, and mind mapping. It asserts that creativity is a skill that can be learned and emphasizes that creative thinking allows for easier problem solving and a more interesting world.
The document discusses creative thinking and problem solving. It explains that creative thinking uses the right brain to explore many new ideas without judgment, while critical thinking uses the left brain for analysis. The Six Thinking Hats method is presented as a tool to structure creative thinking. It involves assigning different colored hats to represent different perspectives or types of thinking, such as facts, feelings, risks, benefits, new ideas, and management of the thinking process. The document advocates using creative thinking methods like brainstorming to generate many possible solutions before evaluating them critically.
Creative thinking, cv writing and interview skillsAhmed Ragab
Creative thinking involves generating novel ideas and alternatives outside typical ways of thinking. It can be hindered by searching for only one answer, being too logical early on, following rules blindly, focusing only on practicality, and fearing mistakes. The creative process includes preparation, investigation, transforming ideas, incubation, illumination, and implementation. Techniques to enhance creativity include analogical thinking, brainstorming, mind mapping, lateral thinking, and Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats approach.
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I did this talk for the Ogilvy Idea Shop. It was directed at small businesses, charities and organisations that need a little help with problem solving. This is a special slideshare version with additional text on the slides to explain them better.
If you're the copyright holder for any of the images, please get in touch so that I can credit you or remove them.
The MTL Professional Development Programme is a collection of 202 PowerPoint presentations that will provide you with step-by-step summaries of a key management or personal development skill. This presentation is on "Creative Thinking" and will show you how to become more creative.
The document describes a model of creativity with six phases: inspiration, clarification, ideation, distillation, incubation, and implementation. It explains that creativity involves generating many ideas (inspiration), determining goals and objectives (clarification), focusing ideas (distillation), taking breaks to let the subconscious work (incubation), and determined, persistent work (implementation). Each phase is important for creative work, and people tend to have strengths and weaknesses in different phases.
Creativity is the ability to imagine or invent something new and to use imagination to transcend traditional ideas. The document discusses tools for creative thinking like the Six Thinking Hats method, paradigms, and mind mapping. It asserts that creativity is a skill that can be learned and emphasizes that creative thinking allows for easier problem solving and a more interesting world.
This document provides an overview of a creative thinking course, including instructions, objectives, pre-course review questions, and course content. The course covers key topics like the different types of thinking (natural, logical, mathematical, creative), methods for developing creative thinking like the DOIT method and 6 Hats method, elements of creative thinking like lateral thinking and creative attitude, and the stages of the creative process (preparation, incubation, illumination, insight, verification). The goal is to teach participants methods for strengthening their creative thinking skills.
Creative problem solving uses tools and methods like brainstorming, thinking outside the box, and the five Ws to find novel solutions. Brainstorming involves generating ideas without criticism, building on others' ideas, and using lead questions to stimulate creativity. Thinking outside the box means approaching problems from new perspectives, like solving the nine dots puzzle by drawing lines outside the implied boundary. The five Ws framework gets a complete story by answering who, what, when, where, and why questions.
Creativity isn't just for artists, musicians, writers, and designers. We all have the ability to be excellent creative thinkers. - https://www.milestechnologies.com
The document discusses the Six Thinking Hats method for instructional design. It represents six different types or directions of thinking with different colored hats: white for facts, black for problems, red for intuition, green for creativity, yellow for benefits, and blue for process management. For each hat, it provides examples of how an instructional designer could apply that type of thinking to analyzing content, assessing risks, generating ideas, justifying approaches, and planning the project workflow. The overall process encourages exploring all perspectives at once to make balanced, well-informed decisions.
The document discusses creativity, including what it is, why it is important, and how to embrace it. It defines creativity as the ability to imagine or invent something new. It says creativity is the most important human resource and allows for progress, new experiences, and problem solving. The document provides tips for embracing creativity, such as having passion, curiosity, and using techniques like mind mapping, sketching, and seeking inspiration. It concludes that anyone can become creative by having passion and using the right methods.
The document outlines an agenda for a workshop on facilitating Scrum retrospectives using the Six Thinking Hats technique. It includes an introduction to Scrum retrospectives and the Six Thinking Hats method. A simulation of building an airplane using Scrum principles is used to demonstrate a Scrum sprint. The agenda then covers Scrum retrospective theory, the Six Thinking Hats technique, and guides participants through running a retrospective using the Six Thinking Hats approach.
The document introduces Edward De Bono's Six Thinking Hats framework for facilitating feedback and brainstorming meetings. It explains that the framework divides thinking into six "hats" - blue for moderation, red for emotions, white for facts, green for ideas, yellow for benefits, and black for caution. It then provides examples of how to structure a meeting using the hats, such as starting with blue hat sharing, then moving to red hat reactions, and cycling through the other hats to generate and critique ideas. The document concludes by offering contact information for questions about implementing Six Thinking Hats.
Visual and Creative Thinking:What We Learned From Peter Pan and Willy WonkaKelsey Ruger
Presentation on Visual and Creative Thinking. The presentation explores how professional in all fields can apply creative and visual thinking skills to their work as well as why people ignore the talents that made them naturally creative as children. He will discuss the myths that people hold about creativity, why they exist and how you can overcome them.
Visual And Creative Thinking 1197429203117348 4slddmcpherson
1) Visual and creative thinking techniques can help adults reawaken natural creative and visual skills from childhood by using pictures, stories, and imagination.
2) Common myths that prevent creativity include beliefs that it only comes from sudden insights, follows a clear path, or results from lone innovators, when in reality creativity can be learned and practiced.
3) Visual thinking uses images to solve problems and communicate, tapping into how 80% of the brain processes visually, and basic visual thinking tools can get people started.
This document discusses how to think creatively and think outside the box. It suggests that creative thinking requires challenging oneself by letting in divergent information that crosses the mental boundaries between what is known and unknown. When thinking outside the box, one needs to value long thinking, be open-minded, look for alternatives, and mix and match different ideas to find new perspectives and solutions. The document emphasizes that creative thinking is a necessity that needs practice to overcome frustration and think in new ways.
The document summarizes Edward De Bono's book "Six Thinking Hats" which presents a method for group discussion and decision making. The method involves assigning a colored "thinking hat" to represent six different perspectives: white for objective facts, red for emotions, black for caution, yellow for optimism, green for creativity, and blue for organization. By switching between hats, groups can examine ideas from different angles to make better decisions. The hats help structure discussions, avoid bias, and allow for parallel thinking to fully explore all aspects of an issue.
1. The document discusses various types of thinking including critical thinking, creative thinking, linear thinking, and random thinking.
2. It contrasts critical thinking and creative thinking, noting that critical thinking involves analysis and judgment while creative thinking is expansive, non-judgmental, and focuses on developing unique ideas.
3. The document presents models for thinking including the kayak with two paddles representing critical and creative thinking, and the six thinking hats method which categorizes different types of thinking into white, red, black, yellow, green, and blue hats.
MasterClass sobre Creatividad en Telefónica TGSol (English)Carme Fernandez
This document provides an overview of techniques for generating creative ideas and innovating to solve problems. It discusses lateral thinking versus vertical thinking, and techniques like forced relationships, analogies, hypnagogic images, the 5 Whys method, and Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats. The document emphasizes generating many ideas without criticism, seeing alternatives to assumptions, and using techniques like analogy and relaxed imagination to access the unconscious mind. The overall message is that creativity and innovation are skills that can be developed to solve problems in new ways.
Six Thinking Hats is a technique that structures group discussion and individual thinking by assigning a colored "hat" to represent six different perspectives. Each participant wears the same colored hat at a given time to focus thinking from a single viewpoint. The perspectives are white (facts), red (emotions), black (caution), yellow (optimism), green (creativity), and blue (organization and control of the process). The technique aims to improve thinking by addressing different modes of thought in a structured, systematic way.
Six-Hats Technique
•Many major international organisations use this technique for problem solving
•Each „hat‟ represents a perspective or way of thinking
•They are metaphorical hats that a thinker can put on or take off to indicate the type of thinking they are using
•In a group we can ask members to „put on‟ different hats in a sequence to aide the problem solving process
•This can help overcome the problem of each group member adopting random positions at random times
•It also permits us to control people who insist of sticking to one perspective (ie. negative) -we can ask them to assume a different hat.
In the technical feverish world every one become a techie by using mobile or other electronic gadgets. Though we promoted as a techie we should not loose our creativity and innovation skills.
Karlyn Borysenko and I discuss the elements of putting together an impactful presentation and how to submit them to conferences.
Originally presented at Penn State Web - updated and reshared at HighEdWeb 2016 in Memphis Tennessee.
Brainstorming Techniques and How To Get CreativeHellocomputer
If you're looking for ways to inspire your team and yourself, take a look at this presentation by Hellocomputer copywriter Jean-Pierre Le Riche on how to brainstorm creative ideas, how to fake creativity until you make it, and how to use the everyday world and the things around you to draw inspiration and get those creative juices flowing.
Credit: Jean-Pierre Le Riche
Twitter: @jpleriche
Social Media Marketing is going through an interesting phase. It's increase and is getting more importance than ever. For some companies, Marketing starts with Social Media. For several others, setting up Social Media Command Center or hiring a Social Media Head is on top priority. This is the time when Social Media marketers insiders need to think deep and work towards creating a sustainable and high value ecosystem. Here are some truths to face and overcome.
This document provides an overview of a creative thinking course, including instructions, objectives, pre-course review questions, and course content. The course covers key topics like the different types of thinking (natural, logical, mathematical, creative), methods for developing creative thinking like the DOIT method and 6 Hats method, elements of creative thinking like lateral thinking and creative attitude, and the stages of the creative process (preparation, incubation, illumination, insight, verification). The goal is to teach participants methods for strengthening their creative thinking skills.
Creative problem solving uses tools and methods like brainstorming, thinking outside the box, and the five Ws to find novel solutions. Brainstorming involves generating ideas without criticism, building on others' ideas, and using lead questions to stimulate creativity. Thinking outside the box means approaching problems from new perspectives, like solving the nine dots puzzle by drawing lines outside the implied boundary. The five Ws framework gets a complete story by answering who, what, when, where, and why questions.
Creativity isn't just for artists, musicians, writers, and designers. We all have the ability to be excellent creative thinkers. - https://www.milestechnologies.com
The document discusses the Six Thinking Hats method for instructional design. It represents six different types or directions of thinking with different colored hats: white for facts, black for problems, red for intuition, green for creativity, yellow for benefits, and blue for process management. For each hat, it provides examples of how an instructional designer could apply that type of thinking to analyzing content, assessing risks, generating ideas, justifying approaches, and planning the project workflow. The overall process encourages exploring all perspectives at once to make balanced, well-informed decisions.
The document discusses creativity, including what it is, why it is important, and how to embrace it. It defines creativity as the ability to imagine or invent something new. It says creativity is the most important human resource and allows for progress, new experiences, and problem solving. The document provides tips for embracing creativity, such as having passion, curiosity, and using techniques like mind mapping, sketching, and seeking inspiration. It concludes that anyone can become creative by having passion and using the right methods.
The document outlines an agenda for a workshop on facilitating Scrum retrospectives using the Six Thinking Hats technique. It includes an introduction to Scrum retrospectives and the Six Thinking Hats method. A simulation of building an airplane using Scrum principles is used to demonstrate a Scrum sprint. The agenda then covers Scrum retrospective theory, the Six Thinking Hats technique, and guides participants through running a retrospective using the Six Thinking Hats approach.
The document introduces Edward De Bono's Six Thinking Hats framework for facilitating feedback and brainstorming meetings. It explains that the framework divides thinking into six "hats" - blue for moderation, red for emotions, white for facts, green for ideas, yellow for benefits, and black for caution. It then provides examples of how to structure a meeting using the hats, such as starting with blue hat sharing, then moving to red hat reactions, and cycling through the other hats to generate and critique ideas. The document concludes by offering contact information for questions about implementing Six Thinking Hats.
Visual and Creative Thinking:What We Learned From Peter Pan and Willy WonkaKelsey Ruger
Presentation on Visual and Creative Thinking. The presentation explores how professional in all fields can apply creative and visual thinking skills to their work as well as why people ignore the talents that made them naturally creative as children. He will discuss the myths that people hold about creativity, why they exist and how you can overcome them.
Visual And Creative Thinking 1197429203117348 4slddmcpherson
1) Visual and creative thinking techniques can help adults reawaken natural creative and visual skills from childhood by using pictures, stories, and imagination.
2) Common myths that prevent creativity include beliefs that it only comes from sudden insights, follows a clear path, or results from lone innovators, when in reality creativity can be learned and practiced.
3) Visual thinking uses images to solve problems and communicate, tapping into how 80% of the brain processes visually, and basic visual thinking tools can get people started.
This document discusses how to think creatively and think outside the box. It suggests that creative thinking requires challenging oneself by letting in divergent information that crosses the mental boundaries between what is known and unknown. When thinking outside the box, one needs to value long thinking, be open-minded, look for alternatives, and mix and match different ideas to find new perspectives and solutions. The document emphasizes that creative thinking is a necessity that needs practice to overcome frustration and think in new ways.
The document summarizes Edward De Bono's book "Six Thinking Hats" which presents a method for group discussion and decision making. The method involves assigning a colored "thinking hat" to represent six different perspectives: white for objective facts, red for emotions, black for caution, yellow for optimism, green for creativity, and blue for organization. By switching between hats, groups can examine ideas from different angles to make better decisions. The hats help structure discussions, avoid bias, and allow for parallel thinking to fully explore all aspects of an issue.
1. The document discusses various types of thinking including critical thinking, creative thinking, linear thinking, and random thinking.
2. It contrasts critical thinking and creative thinking, noting that critical thinking involves analysis and judgment while creative thinking is expansive, non-judgmental, and focuses on developing unique ideas.
3. The document presents models for thinking including the kayak with two paddles representing critical and creative thinking, and the six thinking hats method which categorizes different types of thinking into white, red, black, yellow, green, and blue hats.
MasterClass sobre Creatividad en Telefónica TGSol (English)Carme Fernandez
This document provides an overview of techniques for generating creative ideas and innovating to solve problems. It discusses lateral thinking versus vertical thinking, and techniques like forced relationships, analogies, hypnagogic images, the 5 Whys method, and Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats. The document emphasizes generating many ideas without criticism, seeing alternatives to assumptions, and using techniques like analogy and relaxed imagination to access the unconscious mind. The overall message is that creativity and innovation are skills that can be developed to solve problems in new ways.
Six Thinking Hats is a technique that structures group discussion and individual thinking by assigning a colored "hat" to represent six different perspectives. Each participant wears the same colored hat at a given time to focus thinking from a single viewpoint. The perspectives are white (facts), red (emotions), black (caution), yellow (optimism), green (creativity), and blue (organization and control of the process). The technique aims to improve thinking by addressing different modes of thought in a structured, systematic way.
Six-Hats Technique
•Many major international organisations use this technique for problem solving
•Each „hat‟ represents a perspective or way of thinking
•They are metaphorical hats that a thinker can put on or take off to indicate the type of thinking they are using
•In a group we can ask members to „put on‟ different hats in a sequence to aide the problem solving process
•This can help overcome the problem of each group member adopting random positions at random times
•It also permits us to control people who insist of sticking to one perspective (ie. negative) -we can ask them to assume a different hat.
In the technical feverish world every one become a techie by using mobile or other electronic gadgets. Though we promoted as a techie we should not loose our creativity and innovation skills.
Karlyn Borysenko and I discuss the elements of putting together an impactful presentation and how to submit them to conferences.
Originally presented at Penn State Web - updated and reshared at HighEdWeb 2016 in Memphis Tennessee.
Brainstorming Techniques and How To Get CreativeHellocomputer
If you're looking for ways to inspire your team and yourself, take a look at this presentation by Hellocomputer copywriter Jean-Pierre Le Riche on how to brainstorm creative ideas, how to fake creativity until you make it, and how to use the everyday world and the things around you to draw inspiration and get those creative juices flowing.
Credit: Jean-Pierre Le Riche
Twitter: @jpleriche
Social Media Marketing is going through an interesting phase. It's increase and is getting more importance than ever. For some companies, Marketing starts with Social Media. For several others, setting up Social Media Command Center or hiring a Social Media Head is on top priority. This is the time when Social Media marketers insiders need to think deep and work towards creating a sustainable and high value ecosystem. Here are some truths to face and overcome.
The document provides 10 guidelines for effective brainstorming:
1. Come prepared and invite others to do so as well.
2. Invite people from other departments to contribute different perspectives.
3. Reframe the problem statement to spark new ideas.
4. Record all ideas as they are generated.
5. Defer judgment and build on ideas without criticism.
6. Continuously generate ideas without stopping.
7. Set large quotas for the number of ideas to be generated.
8. Elaborate on and improve existing ideas.
9. Use visuals like drawings to connect and organize ideas.
10. Consider alternative problem framings by envisioning threats to spark
Creativity & 10 tips for better brainstormingDavid Burton
This document discusses creativity and innovation. It defines creativity and innovation and examines different creative behaviors and personality types. It also presents a process for moving creative projects through different phases, emphasizing the importance of the improvisation phase. Key recommendations include breaking habits, changing environments, exploring new perspectives, and building a culture that encourages ideas without early judgment.
Abandoning Your Maginot Line: Or, Why your Homepage is a TrapJeffrey Stevens
A discussion about the failed defensive effort of the Maginot Line during the invasion of France, and how it pertains to our dogged use of the home page in higher education. Presented at the HighEdWeb Florida conference in Gainesville, 2013.
Student, patient, farmer, fan: Managing facets of a large social media ecosystemJeffrey Stevens
The challenges of scaling a social media presence with consistent brand and tone become readily apparent at large institutions—especially with differing goals and audiences across the spectrum. In this session, we’ll look at four different social media footprints at the University of Florida—UF Social, UF Health, The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, and UF Athletics—and identify best practices and governance structures within each, and how each works to break through institutional silos to tell the school’s story.
Bearing Down: 20 tips for Creating Persuasive Web Content [NOW with MORE Bears]Jeffrey Stevens
Whether we are telling a story, selling a good, or championing a cause, the way we frame our narrative is key to success. The web gives us enormous flexible in modifying our narrative through iterative change, furthering conversions and success of our campaigns. We'll look at 20 tips for creating compelling web content that produces results.
This document outlines principles and techniques for ideation and design workshops. It discusses constraints to consider in design like technology, business needs, and materials. It then describes a research plan involving observations, insights, and prototyping. Brainstorming rules are outlined emphasizing quantity over quality. Specific brainstorming techniques are also presented like brainwriting, rule breaking, and questioning. The document concludes with examples of design principles for different products focusing on being short, memorable, and differentiating.
The document discusses creative problem solving training topics including understanding creativity and problem solving processes, removing blocks and barriers, and using tools like problem identification, SWOT analysis, Pareto principle, problem restatement, brainstorming, and cause and effect analysis. It also discusses why problem solving can be challenging and provides techniques for structuring problems, restating problems, SWOT analysis, Pareto principle, and brainstorming. Contact information is given for training consultants.
This document outlines David Kelley's presentation on creativity. The presentation covers:
- How creativity helped Kelley through college
- Defining creativity as the application of knowledge and experience
- Common blockages to creativity like old habits and lack of confidence
- The importance of being open and building on others' ideas during creative brainstorms
- An exercise where participants connect 9 dots using 4 straight lines to demonstrate divergent thinking
- Stages of the creative process including defining problems, generating ideas, and selecting concepts
- Tips for facilitating creative sessions like using energizers and establishing ground rules to think outside the box
The document provides guidance on ideation and idea generation. It discusses that an idea is a thought or concept that proposes a course of action to achieve a desired goal. It recommends first diverging and zooming out during brainstorming, then converging and zooming in. Some brainstorming tips include exhausting options, avoiding disruptions, and not criticizing. The process involves defining a problem statement, identifying constraints and goals, and visualizing ideas using diagrams, wireframes or mockups. The overall goal is to provide a framework for effective ideation.
Website Heal Thyself: Creating a Patient-Friendly Web ExperienceJeffrey Stevens
A quick review of the custom taxonomy that powers UFandShands.org and the results of the site launch, leading to a 700% increase in patient appointment requests. Presented during the Case Studies session and the Healthcare Experience Design conference in Boston, March 2013.
The document discusses the benefits of meditation for reducing stress and anxiety. Regular meditation practice can help calm the mind and body by lowering heart rate and blood pressure. Studies have shown that meditating for just 10-20 minutes per day can have significant positive impacts on both mental and physical health over time.
3 Beliefs of Success: A Singaporean Perspective by @itseugenecEugene Cheng
I've been hearing a lot of debate regarding the education system in Singapore recently as it's nearing graduation.
Here's my brief opinion. In a Slide Deck
This document outlines an ideation process that uses divergent and convergent thinking techniques. It involves two phases - a divergent phase where participants individually generate many ideas on post-it notes for designing a time measurement device for different user groups. This is followed by a convergent phase where the group discusses and votes on the ideas before selecting one concept to develop into a poster and present. The process aims to encourage quantity of ideas before judgment and brings ideas together through discussion, voting and concept development.
The document provides an overview of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. It discusses what habits are and how they are formed. It then describes each of the 7 habits in detail: 1) Be Proactive, 2) Begin with the End in Mind, 3) Put First Things First, 4) Think Win-Win, 5) Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood, 6) Synergize, and 7) Sharpen the Saw. Exercises and examples are provided for applying each habit to improve effectiveness and relationships. The habits teach skills like time management, goal-setting, communication, teamwork and continual self-improvement.
Creative Problem Solving - Six Thinking Hats and Other Tools by CTRAndre Hannemann Harris
The thinking process is like a kayak with two paddles: One is CREATIVE Thinking while the other represents CRITICAL Thinking.
Six Thinking Hats, introduced in 1985 by Edward DeBono, is an effective tool for decision making and problem solving that uses both sides of your brain.
Culture Transformation Resources, LLC (CTR) provides a fresh look at Creative Problem Solving and Six Thinking Hats in this training presentation.
There are many Benefits of using Six Thinking Hats, including, it helps:
- Provide a common language
- Maximize productive collaboration
- Diversity of thought while using more of our brains
- Consider issues, challenges, decisions and opportunities systematically
- Remove ego (reduce confrontation)
- Save time
- Focus (one thing at a time)
- Think clearly and objectively
- Create, evaluate & implement action plans
- Achieve significant and meaningful results
- Make meetings more productive in less time
#CreativeProblemSolving #ProblemSolving #Leadership #CTR
by Culture Transformation Resources, LLC
www.CTRConsultingServices.com
1-877-287-1234
The document discusses planning and preparing presentations using the 6 Thinking Hats method developed by Edward de Bono. It recommends putting on the blue hat to organize and lead a presentation by considering ideas like using storytelling techniques, handling questions and answers confidently, and enhancing delivery. Tips are provided for choosing a topic and some takeaways emphasize the importance of believing in your ability to achieve your presentation goals.
The document discusses brainstorming techniques. It defines brainstorming as a group process for generating ideas around a problem by encouraging unrestrained contributions without self-censorship. The document outlines Alex Osborn's four rules for effective brainstorming: defer judgment, reach for quantity, welcome unusual ideas, and build on existing ideas. It also discusses seven steps for structured brainstorming including identifying objectives, setting time limits, capturing all ideas, avoiding groupthink, getting specific on strong ideas, and sharing results. The goal of brainstorming is to spark creativity and new perspectives to solve problems.
This document discusses the importance and characteristics of successful group discussions. It notes that group discussions allow people to plan and manage time efficiently, solve problems, acquire knowledge, gather many ideas, and make decisions. Successful group discussions require mutual understanding, consideration of all ideas, contribution of ideas from everyone, achievement of objectives, and responsibilities for each member. The document also lists common language functions and expressions used in group discussions.
This document provides an overview of various communication and advertising methods, including their strengths and weaknesses for idea generation and project planning. It discusses mind maps, mood boards, style sheets, layout plans, brainstorming, informal pitches, group idea generation, and formal pitches. Overall, the document evaluates these methods and how they could be applied to developing an animated advertisement for a product.
16 from 16: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SUMMARISEDKevin Duncan
The document discusses several books related to leadership, productivity, negotiation, culture and ideas. It provides short summaries of key points from books such as "The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team" by Patrick Lencioni, "Scrum" by Jeff Sutherland, and "Superforecasting" by Tetlock and Gardner. The summaries highlight effective team dynamics, agile project management techniques, and strategies for improving forecasting accuracy through an analytical approach.
The document provides an agenda and overview for a two-week RA training program called "Got Grit". Day 1 activities include icebreakers, a scavenger hunt, teambuilders, and a discussion on what makes a good RA. Theoretical frameworks on learning styles, personality types, growth mindset, and grit are referenced. Learning outcomes include relationship building, personal reflection, campus familiarization, and understanding grit. Goals are leadership development, intellectual growth, fun, and more. Activities include a grit scale assessment where participants indicate agreement to statements.
The document provides an agenda and overview for a two-week RA training program called "Got Grit". Day 1 activities include icebreakers, a scavenger hunt, teambuilders, and a discussion on what makes a good RA. Theoretical frameworks on learning styles, personality types, growth mindset, and grit are referenced. Learning outcomes include relationship building, personal reflection, campus familiarization, and understanding grit. Goals are leadership development, intellectual growth, fun, and more. Activities include a grit scale assessment where participants indicate agreement to statements.
This document discusses the importance of setting written goals. It provides advice from experts on goal setting and emphasizes that writing down goals and plans to achieve them can significantly increase success. Key points covered include breaking goals down into strategic, measurable, affordable, rewarding, and time-bound components. The document also discusses building goal-setting skills like identifying one's purpose, transforming limiting beliefs, and designing positive habits to support goal achievement.
Designer Games - Creative Exercises to Enhance Your WorkJohn H Douglass
Ultimately we’re all fighting for users, but which ideas will win their favor? Sometimes, in the battle arena of meetings, requirements and design reviews, the loudest voice gets heard but not necessarily the best. Sometimes design sensibilities and user feedback take a backseat to politics, short-term goals or decisions by committee. In this talk you’ll learn more about a few useful weapons, such as gamestorming and design critiques, to make sure the best ideas win.
“Fail forward”
"Every journey begins with a single step"
“Do or do not, there is no try”
There’s no shortage of inspirational mantras, but these sayings offer little advice to surmounting departmental silos, generational gulfs, intimidating power distances and other communication roadblocks that stymie creative collaboration in the workplace.
These barriers exist because the roles we play in a team environment provide us with a set of rules for interacting with each other. Ironically, these rules often prevent us from doing the very thing we’ve come together as a team to do: Collaborate!
In this session, Carolyn and Anna will discuss how to break the rules and transform those roadblocks into building blocks… freeing you and your team to live up to the mantra of your choice.
Learn about common communication barriers; why they exist and how they hinder team innovation.
Understand the value of design synthesis as a group activity, and how play is a central component to the co-creation dynamic.
Explore a type of creative team play called a Spark-a-Thon. You’ve probably heard of the hack-a-thon, a fun and popular way to immerse yourself into a problem and solve it with code. What would happen if this format of time-limited, team-oriented creation was applied to design concepting? The answer: The Spark-a-Thon, which leads to bigger ideas and a stronger team problem-solving dynamic.
Gain tips, tricks, and resources, so that you can go run your own Spark-a-Thon. You'll leave armed with some benefits and results you’ll glean from it, too - just in case you need to build an internal business case for it.
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. Join us to learn some serious play!
The document provides an overview of the weekend workout and guidelines for mindset. It recommends doing the weekend workout to gain design skills and practice those skills on future projects. It emphasizes enjoying the process and remaining calm under pressure, which are important design skills. The weekend workout will provide tools and techniques to continue training, even if readers can't run a marathon on Monday.
Engage and Inspire Through Collaborative Problem SolvingJaimi Kercher
Presentation for the Professional Women's Association (PWA) Conference at UCSB.
As a manager, our tendency is to believe we must “have it all figured out” in order to provide clear direction to our teams. But, what happens if we engage our staff in ideation and planning for our projects? This approach creates a broader range of possibilities, lifts the sole burden of decision making from the manager, and inspires ownership and sense of purpose to provide more job satisfaction among our staff. This hands on workshop will demonstrate the power of leveraging the unique talents of your team and some practical methods for bringing them together to create more robust, innovative, and diverse solutions.
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Earthsoft Foundation of Guidance (EFG) is working as an NGO/NPO for students - Education & Career
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Earthsoft Foundation of Guidance (EFG) is working as an NGO/NPO for students - Education & Career
guidance and for Professionals for soft skills enhancements. I am working on speading , sharing
knowledge; experience globally.It has uploaded important presentations at http://myefg.in/downloads.aspx.
Also https://dl.dropbox.com/u/83265908/Links-events.xls has links for all ppt files.
Read http://tl.gd/jm1gh5
Be mentor using your education, knowledge & experience to contribute for a social cause & do conduct
free training/ workshop seeking help of existing platforms like rotary,etc
Kindly spread to your friends.Thank you!
- Earthsoft Foundation of Guidance
Let us make earth little softer..
Design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem solving that involves discovery, interpretation, ideation, experimentation, and evaluation. The design thinking process begins with discovery to gain an understanding of user needs through research and inspiration gathering. Insights from discovery are then interpreted to identify opportunities and frame ideas during the ideation phase. Ideas are made tangible through experimentation with prototypes to gather feedback, and the evaluation process involves planning next steps and integrating learnings to evolve the concept over time.
The document provides guidance on getting a team unstuck in 7 steps by addressing common states of being stuck, including battle-torn, exhausted, directionless, worthless, overwhelmed, alone, and hopeless. It then outlines pathways to help teams move past each stuck state through approaches like clarifying roles, building team identity, establishing a compelling vision or purpose, and ensuring proper resources and communication. The overall document aims to help leaders diagnose why their team may be stuck and offer suggestions to guide them to an unstuck and higher performing state.
Boon Companion: Content Strategist as Sidekick: Highedweb 2018Jeffrey Stevens
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Boon Companion: Content Strategist as SidekickJeffrey Stevens
In a decentralized environment, a content strategist can't be the hero to take care of all the things. You have to be a sidekick to your heroes - the multitudes of content contributors in your system. Sam Gamgee from Lord of the Rings exemplifies this role as a companion, guides, and leader.
Skywriting: Best Practices for a Cloud-Based WebJeffrey Stevens
SEO, Minimum Viable Content, Optimization, Task-Oriented, Content Modeling…as it evolves, writing for the web develops more and more terms, but what does it all mean? In this session, we’ll discuss best practices on how to write for digital properties to meet user expectations, meet business goals and to maximize exposure.
Metropolis and Gotham: Two Approaches to Enterprise Site DevelopmentJeffrey Stevens
In the last five years, UF Health's web services team has launched two enterprise-wide web projects supporting six colleges, six hospitals, and 15,000 staff and students. Our Metropolis was an external web presence supporting over 600 websites, built in the light of day as a positive affirmation of our future as an organization. Our Gotham was a new intranet, built on social networking and web best practices, constructed internally and away from the light, but nonetheless as important. This talk will focus on the strategies used in building both and the lessons learned in the process:
Building momentum for the project and guiding consensus versus leveraging political capital and goodwill
Creating your Justice League - a team of unique and overlapping skill sets that can support the infrastructure
Overcoming the rogues gallery of barriers that threaten to stall or derail the project, or worse, destroy team morale
Managing client expectations
Responsive Web Design presents new challenge for content strategists: determining what content is presented and in what format. While each site and situation is unique, it's clear that your content needs to be tailored specifically to your audience's needs.
In this session, I discuss twenty tips for writing targeting, persuasive content for your audiences and look at examples from current web sites to help develop best practices for your organization.
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A short micro-presentation on the tenets of Active Listening, a process for communicating clearly and effectively and opening yourself to truly understanding and processing the other in a conversation. Presented to the UF Health Creative Team Meeting.
Voyage of the Beagle: Biology, Evolution, and Content StrategyJeffrey Stevens
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” ― Charles Darwin.
Despite being creatures made of pixels, codes, and thought, websites are living entities that follow principles similar to the evolutionary principles that predict how life changes and adapts. Using concepts from biology and the natural sciences, we'll look at the evolution of the University of Florida Health web presence, a three year process that eventually affected over 500 academic sites, six hospitals, hundreds of medical clinics, and eventually an entire university redesign. You're not going to need a lab coat or safety goggles as Stevens investigates how many finches are needed to make a decent digital birdhouse, genetic engineering (how to take learned principles and splice them into new projects), order and understanding through taxonomy, or punctuated equilibrium (and how to affect what comes next).
Presented at the 2014 Higher Education Web Professionals Conference in Portland, Oregon and at the 2014 Confab Higher Education in Atlanta, GA.
Let Me Help: The Prime Directive of Web ContentJeffrey Stevens
The document discusses the benefits of meditation for reducing stress and anxiety. Regular meditation practice can help calm the mind and body by lowering heart rate and blood pressure. Studies have shown that meditating for just 10-20 minutes per day can have significant positive impacts on both mental and physical health over time.
The Trouble With Tribbles: How LOLcats Ate Our EngagementJeffrey Stevens
How to build better headlines, links, sharing options, and content to compete for the attention of audiences with ever increasing options for entertainment and diversions.
Bear With Me: 20 Tips for Writing Effective Persuasive Web ContentJeffrey Stevens
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help regulate emotions and stress levels.
Someone once said "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." General Duke Abernathy said "Knowing is Half the Battle." General Anthony Clement McAuliffe said "Nuts!"
All of these are true. History gives us insight into the human condition and provides lessons for all fields. Let's take a look at some of the stories of World War II - of strategies, tactics, technology, and planning - and how they relate to web design and development in higher education today. By the end, maybe we'll have a few insights on how to bridge the communication gaps between our audiences, our authors, and ourselves.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help regulate emotions and stress levels.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
I'd Buy that for a Dollar: What Robocop can Teach us About Alumni EngagementJeffrey Stevens
Today's economy puts alumni foundation and development officers in a unique position: creating a model of engagement for an increasing number of college graduates who will not be able to provide recurring gifts for decades. Building on examples from non-profit and Web 2.0 businesses, this TED-style talk will present a model for reaching this demographic and making them involved and eager members of the larger campus community.
The 800 Pound Bluebird in Your Soul and Other Uncomfortable Truths about Jour...Jeffrey Stevens
Presentation to the 2011 Summer Journalism Institute at the University of Florida. I discussed the challenges to writers and reporters on the internet today and the crucial importance of building an online identity.
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During an organizational transformation, the shift is from the previous state to an improved one. In the realm of agility, I emphasize the significance of identifying polarities. This approach helps establish a clear understanding of your objectives. I have outlined 12 incremental actions to delineate your organizational strategy.
Org Design is a core skill to be mastered by management for any successful org change.
Org Topologies™ in its essence is a two-dimensional space with 16 distinctive boxes - atomic organizational archetypes. That space helps you to plot your current operating model by positioning individuals, departments, and teams on the map. This will give a profound understanding of the performance of your value-creating organizational ecosystem.
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Sethurathnam Ravi: A Legacy in Finance and LeadershipAnjana Josie
Sethurathnam Ravi, also known as S Ravi, is a distinguished Chartered Accountant and former Chairman of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). As the Founder and Managing Partner of Ravi Rajan & Co. LLP, he has made significant contributions to the fields of finance, banking, and corporate governance. His extensive career includes directorships in over 45 major organizations, including LIC, BHEL, and ONGC. With a passion for financial consulting and social issues, S Ravi continues to influence the industry and inspire future leaders.
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While agile has entered the post-mainstream age, possibly losing its mojo along the way, the rise of remote working is dealing a more severe blow than its industrialization.
In this talk we'll have a look to the cumulative effect of the constraints of a remote working environment and of the common countermeasures.
Ganpati Kumar Choudhary Indian Ethos PPT.pptx, The Dilemma of Green Energy Corporation
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Public Speaking Tips to Help You Be A Strong Leader.pdfPinta Partners
In the realm of effective leadership, a multitude of skills come into play, but one stands out as both crucial and challenging: public speaking.
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A presentation on mastering key management concepts across projects, products, programs, and portfolios. Whether you're an aspiring manager or looking to enhance your skills, this session will provide you with the knowledge and tools to succeed in various management roles. Learn about the distinct lifecycles, methodologies, and essential skillsets needed to thrive in today's dynamic business environment.
Every day we are expected to make decisions. Some are minor and have no lasting impact, but sometimes the decisions we make can have a lasting impact on our careers and on our personal lives. When the decision matters, how do you know you’re making the right one?
Photo by jnap - http://www.flickr.com/photos/25843092@N04/4386154663/
Whether you realize it or not, your decisions are being influenced by invisible factors. The sad truth is that many of these factors are rooted in psychological mechanisms that can sometimes cause you to make the wrong decision.
To be able to combat these psychological quirks, we must first attempt to identify them.
Whether you realize it or not, your decisions are being influenced by invisible factors. The sad truth is that many of these factors are rooted in psychological mechanisms that can sometimes cause you to make the wrong decision.
To be able to combat these psychological quirks, we must first attempt to identify them.
Whether you realize it or not, your decisions are being influenced by invisible factors. The sad truth is that many of these factors are rooted in psychological mechanisms that can sometimes cause you to make the wrong decision.
To be able to combat these psychological quirks, we must first attempt to identify them.
Whether you realize it or not, your decisions are being influenced by invisible factors. The sad truth is that many of these factors are rooted in psychological mechanisms that can sometimes cause you to make the wrong decision.
To be able to combat these psychological quirks, we must first attempt to identify them.
Whether you realize it or not, your decisions are being influenced by invisible factors. The sad truth is that many of these factors are rooted in psychological mechanisms that can sometimes cause you to make the wrong decision.
To be able to combat these psychological quirks, we must first attempt to identify them.
Whether you realize it or not, your decisions are being influenced by invisible factors. The sad truth is that many of these factors are rooted in psychological mechanisms that can sometimes cause you to make the wrong decision.
To be able to combat these psychological quirks, we must first attempt to identify them.
Whether you realize it or not, your decisions are being influenced by invisible factors. The sad truth is that many of these factors are rooted in psychological mechanisms that can sometimes cause you to make the wrong decision.
To be able to combat these psychological quirks, we must first attempt to identify them.
Whether you realize it or not, your decisions are being influenced by invisible factors. The sad truth is that many of these factors are rooted in psychological mechanisms that can sometimes cause you to make the wrong decision.
To be able to combat these psychological quirks, we must first attempt to identify them.
Whether you realize it or not, your decisions are being influenced by invisible factors. The sad truth is that many of these factors are rooted in psychological mechanisms that can sometimes cause you to make the wrong decision.
To be able to combat these psychological quirks, we must first attempt to identify them.
Every day we are expected to make decisions. Some are minor and have no lasting impact, but sometimes the decisions we make can have a lasting impact on our careers and on our personal lives. When the decision matters, how do you know you’re making the right one?
Photo by jnap - http://www.flickr.com/photos/25843092@N04/4386154663/
Whether you realize it or not, your decisions are being influenced by invisible factors. The sad truth is that many of these factors are rooted in psychological mechanisms that can sometimes cause you to make the wrong decision.
To be able to combat these psychological quirks, we must first attempt to identify them.
Now, I’m sure many of you are familiar with some pretty common/wide-spread ones we see everyday. This includes things like conformational bias and group-think.
In this brief presentation, however, we are going to take a tour of some my more favorite “invisible” factors that we may hear less of. Most of the items on this list are courtesy of Charlie Munger (Warren Buffet’s lesser known, but equally talented partner at Berkshire Hathaway) at a speech he gave to Harvard in 1995.
In it, Charlie outlines about 24 major psychological influences (We’re just going to touch on a few)...
Let’s start:
Bias from consistency and commitment tendency – it has always been this way, so we should keep doing it that way. The human mind has a tendency to shut off once an idea or decision has been established. This one doesn’t need much explanation. We are creatures of habit. Some habits are good… but habitually coming to the same decisions may blind you to other choices.
Incentive-cause (or based) Bias – if you benefit from the bad decision, it becomes difficult to stop making it. Example: The great moral instrument: the cash register. John Henry Patterson ran a small miner’s supply store where he was constantly being robbed blind by his employees. Some folks some his some cash registers, and he instantly became profitable. The structure of the register, its tracking of receipts, etc. made it far more difficult to do this and automated the process. The store was immediately profitable, and Patterson went on to form the NCR – National Cash Register company.
Bias from Pavlovian association – a fairly large majority of advertising works this way: associate your product with something positive, and it becomes a better product. Are your decisions associated with good outcomes, or bad?
Reciprocation tendency (including the tendency of one in a roll to act as other persons expect.) –
ONE EXAMPLE: Charlie gives the example of Wal-Mart’s Sam Walton. Sam Walton would not let a purchasing agent take a handkerchief from a salesman, because he knew how powerful the subconscious reciprocation tendency can be. Taking anything from a salesman, could influence the buyer to direct a deal to the salesman as a kind of payback. And it’s possible the buyer would not even know that he/she is favoring the agent.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE (multiple influences in this examples…)
Asks people on a campus if they would like to sponsor an underprivileged, but behaviorally difficult child, for a day at the zoo (take some juvenile delinquents to the zoo). Initially. The results depended greatly on the manner of the request. If he said something like, “would you like to devote two afternoons a week to taking juvenile delinquents somewhere and suffering greatly to help them”, he got 2/3 saying no. But then, he’d ask them a second time: “Could you take these underprivileged children to the zoo for just one afternoon?”, his compliance rate increased to 50%. Ask for a lot and back off, but people are expected to help out
contrast-caused distortions of sensation, perception and cognition : Practical example: Real estate agent takes you to two crummy houses before taking you to a third average house, which now looks amazing. You fall in love with the average house.
Another example: experiment includes three buckets of water (one hot, one cold, one room temperature). Stick your hand into the hot, it feels hot. Now stick the other hand in the cold, feels cold. Now take both and stick it in the lukewarm water. Each hand reverses its feeling, even though the water is neutral.
Bias from deprival, super-reaction syndrome, including bias caused by present or threatened scarcity (Moving People’s Cheese) - This one is well known.. It just has an awesomely complicated name. Or, said in another way: moving people’s cheese. Good example: New Coke.
You can also positively motivate people by making them believe they are missing out on something (artificial scarcity); it’s the same effect.
[Dis]like Distortion – Liking a decision because you made it, or someone you like made it, or the reverse: disliking a decision because you dislike the person who made it. One example of decisions influenced by this: consultants recommendation is to hire more consultants!
Stress-induced mental changes – Remember Pavlov’s dogs? Well, a flood hit the lab while they were still cages. So the water rises, and these dogs nearly drown. With their little snouts just barely getting air someone walks into the lab and raises a bunch of them, saving them. He found that for many of the dogs, the learned behavior had been erased.
...these are just a small sampling, and in real-world applications, these factors combine with many others. Rarely in any given situation do just one of these factors play a role; rather, it is many at once.
Consider a story told by Procter & Gamble Chairman A.G. Lafley about his own learning while working on the Tide brand in the 1980s:
“Every year consumers would rate the Tide powder cardboard package as excellent; excellent to shop; excellent for opening; excellent in use — on, on, on. So, I’m in basements in Tennessee, in Kentucky, doing loads of laundry with women, and after three or four or five of these one-on-one sessions, I’ve realized that not a single woman has opened a box of Tide with her hands.
Why not? How do you open a box of detergent? Why don’t you open the box of detergent with your hands? You’ll break your fingernails! You’re not going to subject those nails to a box of laundry detergent. So, how did they open the box? They had nail files; they had screw drivers; they had all kinds of things sitting down on the shelf over their washing machine, and they thought our package was excellent! And you know what? We thought our package was excellent because they were telling us our package was excellent.”
Being familiar with some of these psychological influences is half the battle. Once you know you’re there, what can you do to help overcome them?
Being familiar with some of these psychological influences is half the battle. Once you know you’re there, what can you do to help overcome them?
You encounter a choice. But narrow framing makes you miss options. So … Widen Your Options. How can you expand your sent of choices? …
How do you widen your options?
More options increase odds of making successful decision. “Thumbs up or down” decisions (yes or no) decrease odds of success.
Research suggest adding 1 additional option results in a decision being 6X more likely to be successful according to Heath
2. You analyze your options. But the confirmation bias leads you to gather self-serving information. So … Reality-Test Your Assumptions. How can you get outside your head and collect information you can trust? …
3. You make a choice. But short-term emotion will often tempt you to make the wrong one. So … Attain Distance Before Deciding. How can you overcome short-term emotion and conflicted feelings to make better choices? …
Sleep on it
Consider 10/10/10 (Think of implications 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years from now)
- For business decisions ask yourself, “What would your successor do?”
4. Then you live with it. But you’ll often be overconfident about how the future will unfold. So … Prepare to Be Wrong. How can we plan for an uncertain future so that we give our decisions the best chance to succeed? …
...leading into this idea of being wrong, we have a great quote from Tim Cook on Steve Jobs [insert groan here...]
“More so than any person I ever met in my life, he had the ability to change his mind…. He could be so sold on a certain direction and in a nanosecond (Cook snaps his fingers) have a completely different view. (Laughs.) I thought in the early days, “Wow, this is strange.” Then I realized how much of a gift it was. So many people, particularly, I think, CEOs and top executives, they get so planted in their old ideas, and they refuse or don’t have the courage to admit that they’re now wrong. Maybe the most underappreciated thing about Steve was that he had the courage to change his mind.”
3. You make a choice. But short-term emotion will often tempt you to make the wrong one. So … Attain Distance Before Deciding. How can you overcome short-term emotion and conflicted feelings to make better choices? …
Sleep on it
Consider 10/10/10 (Think of implications 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years from now)
- For business decisions ask yourself, “What would your successor do?”