John Canfield’s Good Thinking Curriculum is based on the notion that improving thinking skills is the key driver to improving business performance.

Thinking and intelligence are different. Intelligence is innate capability, and thinking is how you use it. As a skill it is improvable.

What differentiates great and not-so-great companies is how they think, and how they help all their employees learn to think more effectively.

 Topic Summaries: The topics listed below are all about thinking, and learning to think more effectively and creatively, to solve problems, create new alternatives, and improve your company's performance. All Sessions are very interactive and based on your organization’s issues and opportunities.

Core Topic: Collaboration Skills - Resolving Conflict/Resolving Options:

 Collaboration can be so much more than just assembling as a team to do work. Done poorly, the results are half-baked ideas sort-of supported by some of the team’s members. Done well, the results are decisions better than anyone expected supported enthusiastically by all of a team’s members.

Speed bumps and road blocks: The vast majority of improvement team work, and business in general, is conducted through a series of meetings with a wide variety of team members, personalities, and opinions.. All too often these meetings are either slowed or derailed by what many call conflict. Learning to think about and treat conflict as merely the discovery of a different point of view helps teams move past unnecessary personal and political noise and focus on the opportunity of having many options to choose from. This seminar will help you develop approaches, skills, and confidence that allow you to move past unproductive conflict and work more effectively taking full advantage of productive conflict.

Idea Generating and Decision Making Skills

• Process Improvement: Improve processes throughout your organization by learning to identify and replace sources of waste with new value-added steps.

• Creative Thinking Skills: Learn to generate new ideas when you thought you couldn’t think of any more.

• Strategic Planning: Create an operational planning document that guides company leaders and employees.

• Scenario Planning – Consider Alternative Futures: Think about the future in a very productive way.

Decision Making and Implementing Skills

• Project Management: Implement changes on an ongoing basis with teams who plan, manage, budget, track, and successfully complete company projects.

• Leading Teams: Initiate and support your organization's improvement teams.

• Leading Change: Learn new techniques to help you learn about and practice more effective ways to think about, and decide about, change and improvements

• Leading an Innovative Organization: Help for senior leaders who are or will be leading an organization that embraces innovation.

 Delivery Options include customized seminars, keynote speeches, facilitated meetings and coaching. Consider the Good Thinking Curriculum as the base of an onsite companywide customized leadership development initiative.

PDF: Good Thinking Curriculum Update

Please contact John to request detailed descriptions of these and other seminars and meetings.