Summary of Program: Using a document, a case-study Executive Summary, participants will experiment with critical thinking. This exercise demonstrates that not everyone reads the same document in the same way; extrapolated, this principle reveals how differently people think. Participants will report back to each other interpretations of the case document, demonstrating diverse perspectives, both their own and others which the context Triggers, unique to this program, will frame. These differences in interpretation happen really fast, almost on the subconscious level, and so, most people do not realize that they do not interpret data in the same way. People tend to create knowledge out of information according to their style preferences without knowing how to put themselves in another person's point-of-view. This course will combine the strengths of each individual's style preferences with new gained strategies for seeing how other people establish their perspectives. At the same time, participants will gain masterful tools for reforming data into more than one kind of knowledge.

Program Objectives:

Gain a strategic position for being diplomatic.

Apply new comprehension tools to multiple types of communications, including thinking, speaking formally or informally, writing, and team-building.

Learn more than one way to transform an information glut into knowledge.

Bring context into the moment.

Learn to perceive from someone else's perspective

Understand the "perceptual fog," a kind of mental screen that blurs our communication with others.

Delivery Format:

1 Day.

Fun.

Discussion.

Minimal lecture.

Hands-on practice.

Seminar Exercise Manual, Turning Information Into Knowledge^©.

Desktop Handbook, Elements of Thought^©.