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Thinking Outside the Lines for Managers and Supervisors

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$199

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National Seminars

Topic(s):
Leadership & Management > Team Building

Who Should Attend?
Executives, managers, and team leaders from all types of organizations, big and small alike! If the same old way of doing things isn't giving you the results you need today – this training is for you!

• Management Skills for First-Time Supervisors
• Leadership & Supervisory Skills for Women
• Keys to Effectively Supervising People

Full Seminar Description

How to teach yourself and others to find innovative answers and make better decisions!

What You’ll Learn

• Jump-start your creative thinking skills in an imaginative, stimulating environment.
• Find new solutions to problems that have plagued your organization – maybe for years!
• Gain greater clarity and focus by challenging self-limiting perspectives.
• Break negative thinking habits that squash creativity in yourself and others.
• Get original ideas to flow quickly and naturally from now on.
• Use new thinking techniques to launch strategic planning in new directions.
• Sharpen your creative decision-making skills for stronger, faster decisions.
• Fire up a team, a department, even a whole organization that’s grown dangerously comfortable with the status quo.
• Learn how to accurately weigh the risk vs. reward of any new idea or plan.
• Know where to look for your richest source of innovation.
• Learn proven techniques for moving your team beyond “the way we’ve always done it.”
• Get a rare chance to refocus your leadership vision and be inspired in a highly creative atmosphere.
• Understand how you may be unintentionally discouraging innovation rather than encouraging it in your people.
• Avoid the common thinking traps that stomp out good ideas.
• Access more of your “idea power” than you currently do to generate idea after idea.

Who Should Attend

Workshop Agenda

Flexing Your Creative Thinking Muscles to Meet Today’s Complex Leadership Challenges

• What creativity is – and isn’t – and why it’s a crucial leadership tool today
• It starts with you: The 10 Rules of Creative Leadership
• Thinking about how you think: Vertical vs. lateral thinking and convergent vs. divergent thinking
• Automatic filters that affect your perception of the world and the way you think
• Proven techniques for thinking more clearly and with greater focus in a world increasingly full of distractions

PowerThinking Tools for Moving Beyond “The Way It’s Always Been Done”

• Why it’s crucial to challenge boundaries you once took for granted ... and the techniques to do it
• The ABCs of PowerThinking – your ticket to “thinking outside the lines”
• Understanding why negative thinking kills ideas, keeps you stuck, and reinforces the status quo
• Habitual barriers to positive thinking
• The importance of replacing “it can’t be done” with an “anything’s possible” attitude – and how to spread it throughout your organization

Getting Outside the Lines With Creative Problem Solving

• Pitfalls of problem solving – and steps for avoiding them
• Sidestep typical thinking traps that prevent you from reaching optimal solutions
• Critical steps of strategic thinking that guarantee your action plan succeeds
• Anchoring: What it is, how it can help you – and how it can hurt
• Using the “Why 5 Tool” to determine what’s really important to you

Supercharge Your Creative Decision-Making Skills

• Examine the thought patterns you use to make decisions – learn how they help you and how they hold you back
• Dabbler, Obsessor, Hacker, Master: What’s your decision-making style?
• 3 basic ground rules for making stronger decisions
• Framing: How you look at a decision determines the degree of your success
• Use “what if” thinking to predict decision outcomes

Generating Ideas That Turn Problems Into Opportunities

• Get out of “stuck-in-a-rut” thinking and learn to promote innovative breakthroughs
• Discover where your sparks for new ideas originate ... and where to find your richest sources of innovations
• Paradigms: Where to look for the next generation of breakthrough ideas
• Brain-linking, clustering, mindmapping, and other brainstorming tools: Tricks for generating lots of ideas quickly
• Creating a “safe” working environment where creativity and new ideas can flourish

Putting Creative Ideas Into Action – for Unprecedented Results!

• How to tell the difference between a great idea and a lousy one – it may not be as obvious as you think
• Accurately plot the outcome you expect on the Scale of Likelihood – an essential step before the final “OK” or “no go”
• Strategies for keeping bureaucracy from killing innovation
• Leadership challenge: How to implement innovative ideas in a world that is still clinging to old habits and methods

Sponsor Background:

Besides offering a full range of training skills to all professional levels through our one-day and two-day seminars and conferences, we also offer highly-acclaimed books, audiocassette, videocassette and CD-ROM training products for individuals, teams, departments or corporate reference libraries.

Since 1991, our affiliation with Rockhurst University, a highly acclaimed four-year university, ensures our commitment to providing lifelong continuous-learning opportunities. We're certain the combination of continuing education with academic excellence gives you the best and most innovative approach to fulfill your continuing education needs.

Cancellation Policy:

If you cannot attend a workshop for which you are registered, you may send a substitute or receive a credit memo toward a future workshop. If you cancel your registration up to five business days before the workshop, your registration fee will be refunded less a $10 enrollment charge.

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