The Center for Agile Thinking: Client Pitch

Bringing Business Thinking
to the Next Level
Agile Critical Thinking
Product Overview
www.agilethinking.com
© 2013 The Center for Agile Thinking

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Our Product Offering


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The Agile Critical ThinkingTM Framework
The Agile Critical ThinkingTM framework provides a roadmap
to build a foundation for 21st Century Skills

Practical, application-oriented tips, tools & techniques


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What is the Agile Critical ThinkingTM Framework
Three steps, each with a set of tools and techniques that are used to apply
critical thinking techniques to common business situations

Assess the
Situation

Consider the
Evidence

Take
Action

Job Aids provide a common language and approach
that can be used both by individuals and teams

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Why We Focus on Organizations
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Organizations create challenges to critical, strategic
and innovative thinking.
• You may not have all the information you need, when you
need it
• You have to balance multiple priorities and agendas
• You have to promote and assess both, individual
contribution and collaborative effort
• You work in a complex, changing, global, connected
environment


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In Organizations Agility Matters
New
Information
Comes to
Situations
Light
Evolve
Rapidly

You Gain
New Insights


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Priorities
Shift

Our Instructional Design
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Short, highly focused on-line modules expose the
learner to key concepts prior to sessions.

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Practical techniques and simple frameworks that can
be applied to real problems

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Learn by doing using worksheet activities and job aids

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Reinforce acquired skills through offline training
guided by Team leaders or our trainers

Online Instruction

Offline Training

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Practical Application

How It Works
Online Session

Offline Session

Application

Value

Value

Value

Learn Concepts, Build
Framework and Consider
Personal/Team Application

Establish Understanding of Key
Concepts and Identify areas of
Application and Practice

Reinforce Concepts and Apply
the Tools and Techniques in
the Work Environment

Sequence of Learning

Components

Targets

• Views MindPops®
• Reviews Big Ideas Worksheet
• ‘Make it Yours’ (Self-Paced
Activity)
• Prepare for the Offline Session

• Review ‘Make it Ours’ activity
• Discuss Application and Concepts
• Define the ‘Call to Action’
• Describe Goals & Implementation

• Transfer learning to the job
• Leader/Manager and team
support each other to apply the
tools
• Boost individual and team
effectiveness


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Delivery Mechanism
Instructor Led
Training

MindPop®

Leader Led
Training

Make It Yours
Big Ideas Worksheet

Course Module (Online Instruction)
Training Module (Offline Instruction)


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MindPops®
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Brief web-based presentations built around a topic
Varying lengths, depending on the topic (3-5 minutes)
With a worksheet that recaps the Big Ideas and engages the
participant to relate the content to their job


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Sample MindPop® Topics


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Make It Yours: A Big Idea Worksheet
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Worksheets are used in conjunction with MindPops® to
reinforce key learnings during the pre-work.

Recap of big ideas in
the MindPop

Thought questions
that help the learner
relate the idea to
real work
experiences


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Job Aids
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Participant uses techniques on the job to reinforce agile
thinking skills
“Coach Me” walks through key tasks to use the job aid
Job Aids can be used individually or in a group setting


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Sample Job Aid Topics


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We Have Two Training Delivery Models
Instructor Led Training

• We provide the instructor & materials
• Pre-work includes MindPops® (short online modules on a topic ) & worksheets
• 1 & 2 day sessions are applicationoriented to practice skills & Job Aids
• Web based follow-up for reinforcement

Leader Led Training

• Managers or Team leaders conduct 90 –
minute sessions to connect skills into daily
work
• Leader accesses facilitation guide &
materials via web
• Pre-work (MindPops® & Worksheet)
• Sessions focus on application of acquired
skills


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How Instructor Led Training Works

1

Select
Topic

The leader
selects the
topics from our
catalog

2

Invite
Team

Participants are
registered using
their email
address

3

Leader
Prepares

Leader downloads facilitation
kit that can be used as is or
customized

Participants view the
MindPops® On-line and
complete worksheets

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Conduct
Session

Our trainers
conduct
customized
sessions to
reinforce and
apply skills

Participant
Prepares


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Thought Leader

Anne is a facilitator, coach and trainer of critical, strategic and
collaborative thinking in organizations throughout the US and
internationally.
• Held executive positions in both the government and corporate sectors
• Recognized for groundbreaking work on diversity, workplace flexibility,
using technology for making ‘people ‘ decisions, and team collaboration
• Holds MBA from the New York Institute of Technology
• 2003-2013 was Faculty, Wharton School teaching courses in business
strategy and HR management.

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Coaches

The Center for Agile Thinking India (Principal, Lead
Coach)
Last-Bench! Applied Education (Co-founder &
CEO, Trainer)
OpenLogix Corporation (Honda R&D, Americas, Inc.)
General Electric (Tata Consultancy Services)

The Center for Agile Thinking India (Learning &
Development Head, Lead Coach)
Last-Bench! Applied Education (Head of Learning
& Development, Trainer)
Atos India Pvt. Ltd (Senior Technical Leader &
Project Manager)

Education:
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Business
Essentials from The Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania
Bachelors in Computers from Sardar Patel College of
Engineering

Education:
PMP Certified, Project Management Institute
Bachelors in Computers from Sardar Patel College
of Engineering


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How Leader Led Training Works

1

Select
Topic

The leader
selects the
topics from our
catalog

2

Invite
Team

Participants are
registered using
their email
address

3

Leader
Prepares

Leader downloads facilitation
kit that can be used as is or
customized

Participants view the
MindPops® On-line and
complete worksheets

4


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Conduct
Session

Leader conducts
90- minute
sessions to
reinforce and
apply skills

Participant
Prepares


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Why Choose Leader-Led Development
 ‘Soft Skills’ are best learned by practice, coaching and reinforcement
 Leaders learn themselves by ‘teaching’ others – so that the leader is
developing coaching skills that can be applied in any domain
 The ‘stickiness’ is reinforced because it is reinforced by the team and
creates a culture for critical thinking
 The delivery model was developed so that it does not need any pretraining or certification to deliver
 We deliver the content through MindPops so that the leader focuses on
application of the content to the work environment


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90-Minute Team Session Roadmap
'Make it Ours'

Application

Call to Action

Kick off

Demonstrate and Practice
Techniques

Gain Commitment

Introduce topic
Confirm completion of Pre-work
Reiterate requirement of new
concepts
Review agenda
Review goals

Shared Understanding
Why this is relevant
How is it meaningful
Personal & Professional benefits

Goal

Walk-through concepts using
our examples or your own
Work in pairs or trios to practice
applying techniques

Job Aids
Relate concepts to everyday
work and collectively brainstorm
potential applications

Goal

To confirm understanding and
connect topic with the team's
work

Debrief experience and
summarize insights using ‘real
work’ or examples you
provide

30 Minutes

45 Minutes

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How can we apply these tools in
our own team
How can we support each other
How will we keep this going

Wrap Up
Clearly define takeaways, to-dos
and applicable concepts

Goal
Reinforce concepts,
understand workplace
application, define roles and
responsibilities and future
work

15 Minutes
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Benefits to your organization

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• Train team leaders, decision makers and managers to improve
leadership and problem solving skills and apply them to specific
job functions

2

• Train team members and employees to inculcate analytic and
critical skills and apply them to improve their professional output

3

• Increase teamwork by promoting collaborative effort and helping
individuals analyze roles and responsibilities

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• Improve group functioning and cohesion through our detailed
and customized Leader led training

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• Combination of online instruction, self-paced activities, solutionoriented job aids and offline training in one single package

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• Avail customized and certified courses, designed by leading
experts, at a highly affordable price

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Clients Served


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Contact

Visit us at

USA

India

Anne Pauker Kreitzberg
anne@agilethinking.com
+1 609 947 0944

Venkat Iyer
venkat@agilethinking.com
+91 98200 69562


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