Thinking Through Innovation With Canisius College
Canisius College’s Center for Professional Development and I are offering.
Thinking Through Innovation
A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices.
What do you do when you are stuck? Robots, Coaching and Procrastination
To get unstuck you need to do something different.
Dimension, Time, Cost Operator Seeing Problems Differently
DTC operator continues to be one of my favorites for working with teams that feel stuck or just cannot move out of their own way to explore the system and problem in a different way. It allows people to work in extremes and through those extremes they see possibilities that felt silly or just wrong before.
Reflecting Upon the Team Building and Leadership Experience
Framing my reflection question: How could I have improved the participant application of the content to their work better today?
SOLVED Solution-Finding for New Years Resolutions
I figured using SOLVED Solution-Finding Method may frame your thinking for setting some resolutions for your organizations, teams and personal future.
Photo Inquiry Friday What is your destination?
“…complaints are sort of like subway tokens. That is, they get the person through the gate but that does not determine which train he or she will take, nor does it determine which stop he or she will use to get off. Where the person wants to go is not predetermined by where they start out.”
How far have you gotten? What worked to get you there? What does x + 1 look like?
Often resistance to change is just the lack of clarity.
Taking the time to be clear on what the goal or end of the process will look like and defining with clarity what is expected can be enough to move people and yourself into action.
Photo Inquiry Friday The team is stuck?
“Stuckness” is incredibly common amongst teams. It may come from a myriad of problems and knowing the problem does not necessarily give us a solution.
Begin With The End in Mind or With The Problem in Mind
Most meetings begin with the problem in mind. Then we discuss the problem, what caused the problem, if the problem we identified is really the problem, and then comes the need to blame someone for the problem.
SOLVED Solution-Focused
The value in this method is that by focusing on what you want the solution to be as opposed to focusing on the problem, your energy and focus can be put into developing action steps towards the solution. The problem is known and acknowledged AND the solution is found in examining what you know, what resources you have and need in order to solve your problems in your context and in learning how to continually improve.