A Thinking Environment®
A Thinking Environment® is a powerful framework for thinking. It comprises a set of ten behaviours, now known as The Ten Components of a Thinking Environment. These are:
• Attention
• Equality
• Ease
• Appreciation
• Encouragement
• Feelings
• Information
• Diversity
• Incisive Questions™
• Place
In the presence of these ten behaviours people think for themselves with rigour, imagination, courage and grace. What helps people to think creatively for themselves is not power, IQ or experience but the way people are treated when they are engaged in their own thinking ~ the impact of our behaviour with others when they are thinking is that important.
An underlying concept of a Thinking Environment® is recognition that to develop organisational and individual effectiveness, people must think for themselves ~ every day, every meeting, every interaction.
At 360 Degree People all our coaching and organisation development practice is grounded in the philosophies of a Thinking Environment®. Rob Brown and Pat Carr are two of forty worldwide registered Thinking Environment Coaches and Consultants and two of only three in the north of England. Their place on the Time to Think Register indicates that they are up to date with the latest research and practice of Thinking Environment® expertise and are in regular supervision and development.
For more information about a Thinking Environment® go to www.timetothink.com
TRANSFORMING MEETINGS™
How often have you been part of a meeting;
That is unproductive?
Where participants interrupt, monopolise the air time or conversely rarely contribute?
That has an unhelpful agenda and where items ‘drop off the end’ and don’t get discussed?
Where good ideas are lost and even better ones never emerge?
Transforming Meetings™ is a 1-day programme that teaches individuals, teams and organisations how to turn meetings into a Thinking Environment®
People in organisations spend more than two-thirds of their time in meetings. Leading productive meetings and ensuring the contribution of everyone has, therefore, become a serious responsibility for a leader.
In this programme teams learn how to use the meeting structure of a Thinking Environment® to engage each person fully, to generate their finest thinking, to encourage respectful, robust discussion leading to decision-making of exceptional quality.
The programme includes practice in a real-time business meeting, achieving concrete business results.
The Aims and Objectives for Participants:
To apply the Ten Components of a Thinking Environment® to the step by step running of meetings.
To experience impressive levels of engagement of each person in the meeting.
To learn how to shorten meetings and produce better results.
To learn the Thinking Environment skills for telephone and video conferencing, as well as face to face meetings.
To learn how to prepare and conduct presentations so that everyone thinks well and stays energised.
THINKING PARTNERSHIP®
This is a 3-day programme that teaches participants the principles and practice of a Thinking Partnership Session®
The Thinking Partnership Session® model is the step by step process for liberating the human mind to think for itself with unprecedented clarity, originality and rigour. This highly participatory course teaches this acclaimed process in depth.
Aims and Objectives for Participants:
To learn how to give and receive Thinking Sessions® effectively.
To explore all Ten Components of a Thinking Environment® and their application to individual thinking.
To acquire skill in constructing Incisive Questions™
To have time to think about issues of importance to them.
Please contact us for more information 0844 576 3026