speaking topics & seminars

Following is a list of speaking topics and seminars Tim currently offers. Each can be tailored to the issues before your group. In addition, Tim is also able to develop and facilitate workshops specific to your needs.

• CQ: How to Unlock Your Creative Intelligence
• Say Hello to Your Discomfort Zone
• Re-Grouping: Turning Dysfunctional Teams into Productive Groups
• Taming the Gator
• Quantum Thinking: How to Figure Out What's Really Going On
• More Ideas Better Ideas!

CQ: How to Unlock Your Creative Intelligence (keynote address)

In this keynote address, Tim graphically demonstrates the barriers we all face in accessing and using our CQ, our creative intelligence -- and how to overcome them. With an energetic blend of insight and humor, Tim teaches audiences what many already know in their hearts: that creative intelligence is not only a gift given to few, but a set of skills everyone can cultivate. Whether you're a manager or an artist, whether you work alone or in a group, you'll think better and do better by learning to unlock your CQ and unblock your thinking.

Say Hello to Your Discomfort Zone (keynote or breakout/workshop)

In this session Tim will guide you through an exploration of your thinking and feeling discomfort zones: how to recognize them, how to deal with them, and how to use them as a springboard to a more creative, more productive, more rewarding life. Sound like a lot to offer? It is. But you're guaranteed to come away from this experience at least a little changed. This is a fun, edgy session, characterized by lots of laughter, wrinkled faces, and a few well-placed ahas!

Re-Grouping: Turning Dysfunctional Teams into Productive Groups (breakout/workshop)

This program is designed to help demonstrate behaviours that help people work together better. All organizations depend on people working together, but traditional "team building" often ignores fundamental human dynamics. Once people can let go of the notion that they must play by the usual (dysfunctional) group rules-norms-practices, amazing things start to happen. They can succeed like never before, and have fun doing so. This session takes participants through the seven-stage Working Group model to help them understand that teams are simply groups of individuals who can, with the right attitudes and tools, find ways of working productively together.

Taming the Gator (breakout/workshop)

One if the hallmarks of human evolution is the changing size of different areas of the brain. The largest and most recently evolved area is the cortex, used for rational thinking. Next is the limbic system, the part of the brain that deals with emotions. The oldest and smallest brain part is the stem, the "fight or flight" brain, which runs our basic survival behaviours. The stem is all the brain a reptile has, hence the term "gator brain". We like to think we think our cortex, but in reality, much of what we do is governed by our gator brain. And that can get us into trouble when dealing with new ideas and new people. Tim will illustrate how easily we can be fooled by our gator brain, how it can prevent us from reaching our human potential, and how you can stop your gator from holding you back.

Quantum Thinking: How to Figure Out What's Really Going On (breakout/workshop)

Our perceptions are mediated both by the acuity of our senses (some see better than others, hear better than others) and by our patterned responses to inputs (resulting from differing values, education, birth order, etc). As such, no two people can perceive the same stimulus the same way. Because our sense of what's going on ALWAYS differs from someone else's, we often fail to communicate effectively. This can be particularly frustrating for teams trying to generate and evaluate creative ideas. Quantum Thinking provides both the insights and the tools to discover the common ground of shared understanding that can help resolve these difficulties.

More Ideas Better Ideas! (breakout/workshop)

Developed by Tim and based on over 50 years of cognitive research, Productive Thinking picks up where creative thinking leaves off. It is a systematic thinking methodology that helps individuals and groups enhance their creative intelligence and apply it quickly and effectively to problems and opportunities, both big and small. Productive Thinking has been proven to help people see more clearly, think more creatively, and plan more effectively.

In this workshop, Tim will illustrate the most common barriers to creative and innovative thinking. He will demonstrate the overarching principle of Productive Thinking, and he will lead participants through a series of interactive exercises highlighting several key Productive Thinking tools including Thinking Separation, DRIVE, and POWER as they work through an unusual real-world challenge.

On completing the workshop, participants should be able to identify and apply the overarching principle of Productive Thinking, identify and apply the six steps of the Productive Thinking model, and use three core Productive Thinking tools.

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