Programs
Mental adventures, from a one-hour starter to eight days in the Rockies.
Every program teaches the same thing at a different depth: to get diffferent™ results you must first think about the way you think. Pick by the time you have and the size of the challenge.
60 minutes · Keynote starter
Diffferent Thinking for Diffferent Results
An interactive starter for conferences, leadership offsites and strategic planning sessions: the group’s thinking is taken through increasingly higher levels of change and correspondingly challenging mindshifts, so the rest of the meeting runs on tools it has just learned.
3 days · ThinkShop
Think 101: Thinking About Thinking
Creative thinking skills for personal growth. Creative thinking style and how to have different ideas; basic tools, techniques and processes for mindshifting; a creative thinking journal. Highly interactive, multi-media driven, intensive.
1½ days · ThinkShop
Results 101: Turning Ideas into Action
For managers, supervisors, quality leaders and workgroups. Built around the Innovator’s Toolkit, a set of just-in-time creative thinking tools and problem-solving processes applied continuously to real problems. Think 101 is a strong prerequisite.
1½ days · Briefing
The Innovation Briefing: Jump-Starting Ideas
Why innovation? Entrepreneuring, leveraging trends into opportunities, getting ideas and growing them into concepts and action plans. Frequently used to kick-start an organization into a systemic approach to innovation. High energy.
3 days · Roll-out
Innovation 101
Supports the roll-out of an innovation initiative across an organization and integrates with programs already in place. Originally designed as part of the U.S. Air Force’s corporate strategy for innovation, later adapted for Fortune 100 companies.
1 day · ThinkShop
The Seven Levels of Change
Change management in terms of quality, reengineering, new business development and product innovation. The Seven Levels of Change model forms the baseline for infusing creativity and innovation into quality programs.
1 day · ThinkShop
Creativity and Creative Style
Suitable for everyone. Examines creativity through each participant’s own style of problem solving, new ideas and decision making, how styles interact in teams, and techniques for overcoming blocks to thinking differently.
2½ days · Workshop
Me, Inc.
Small groups mentally incorporate at the personal level as a virtual entrepreneurial business: personal values, principles, strengths and interests become a personal mission and vision. Class members act as ad hoc boards of directors for each other.
3 days · Thinking Adventure
Team, Inc.
Transforms a small group into a team: a group mission and vision, corporate values and strategies synthesized with each person’s own direction and beliefs. Heavy use of inventories to understand differences in personality type and thinking style. Run in expedition mode.
3 days · Thinking Adventure
Strategic Innovation
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Online · Zoom-based
Virtual Thinking Expedition
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8 days · Estes Park, Colorado
School for Innovators
A network of highly motivated, unusually skilled in-house innovators. The School’s intense eight-day curriculum is built on the model of an operational Thinking Expedition. Enrollment is limited to about twenty.
Not sure which route?
Tell us what you are facing and how much time you have. We will suggest a program, or an expedition.