SPACE TO THINK TECHNIQUES FOR CLEARER THINKING IN COMPLEX TIMES Paul Taylor-Pitt
This session offers practical techniques and tips for problem solving, understanding how to navigate through complexity, and thinking deeper. Using OD methods, you’ll take back ways of thinking and being that will enhance how you attack problems. @NHSE_DoOD
This session offers practical techniques and tips for problem solving, understanding how to navigate through complexity, and thinking deeper. Using OD methods, you’ll take back ways of thinking and being that will enhance how you attack problems. …..in under 45 minutes! @NHSE_DoOD
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Where do you do your best thinking? @NHSE_DoOD
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“When someone gives me their entire attention” @NHSE_DoOD
Why thinking is messy Specialists collaborating is complex Diversity of thought and experience Goal congruence is difficult Time is short Unstable environment @NHSE_DoOD
What do you want to think about? @NHSE_DoOD
Re-Productive Thinking –v- Productive Thinking @NHSE_DoOD
Re-Productive Thinking –v- Productive Thinking @NHSE_DoOD
Re-Productive Thinking –v- Productive Thinking @NHSE_DoOD
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Framing Inquiry Ask questions that generate new thinking rather than quick actions @NHSE_DoOD
@NHSE_DoOD Informative Affirmative Critical Generative Strategic Generate common ground What is the need for change? Affirmative Identify possibility What image describes us at our best? Critical Systemic Understanding What are the aspects we believe can't be changed? Generative Creative thinking What new conversations can we start to generate engagement? Strategic Define path forward What scenarios do we need to consider? Nancy Southern Framing Inquiry @NHSE_DoOD
As a leader Listen as if your leadership life depends on it. It does. When you make mistakes, listen to the effects of them. Apologise. Correct them. Appreciate five times more than you criticize. Stop competing with your colleagues. Encourage their excellence. Set up a thinking partnership with a colleague. Meet three times a week. Run every meeting as a Thinking Environment @NHSE_DoOD
Think outside the box Study the box. Observe it. Inside. Outside. From inside to outside and from outside to inside. Where is it? How did it get there? What’s around it? Who says it’s a box? What do they mean? Why does it matter? Or does it? What is not a box? Ask the box questions. Question others about the box. What’s the perspective from the inside? From outside? Study diagrams of the box. Find documents related to the box. What does thinking have to do with the box anyway? Understand this box. Study another box. And another. Understand box. Understand. Then, you can think inside and outside the box. Perhaps. For a while. Until it changes. Until you change. Until outside becomes inside – again. Then, start over. Study the box. @NHSE_DoOD
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