Analyzing personal preferences

Dominance drives behavior

Identifying your own natural brain dominance

Triune Brain Theory

Enhancing whole-brain thinking

Leveraging left- and right-brain dominance

Recognizing strengths and opportunities

Flexing to opposing styles

Adapting to others’ thinking styles

Recognizing others’ preferred thinking styles

The creative environment

Exploring your own creativity

Utilizing tools and techniques to become more creative

Identifying elements that stimulate creativity

Eliminating barriers to innovation

Brainstorming options

Challenging assumptions

Five Monkeys Syndrome

Avoiding groupthink

Unscrambling the iterative mind

Valuing non-dominant preferences

Stretching outside your personal style

Deploying divergent and convergent thinking

Moving between the left and right brain

Dissecting the situation

Decision analysis

Setting priorities for taking action

Evaluating problems (people, process and technology)

Methods of analysis

Collecting data and information

Defining boundaries and constraints

Deconstructing problems using stair-step techniques

Recognizing others’ preferred thinking styles

Adapting to others’ thinking styles

Flexing to opposing styles

Choosing among alternatives Establishing objectives Assigning weight to objectives in order to make the best decision Creating a satisfaction scale to choose between alternatives

Identifying problems

Determining the deviation and gap

Testing probable causes

Overcoming the “It won’t work here” mentality

Analyzing for outcomes, not solutions

Clearly expressing analysis results

Ensuring organizational benefit

Guaranteeing maximum buy-in

Integrating your solution into the business

Constructing a blueprint for your action plan

Reinforcing your newly developed creative thinking skills

Practicing creative and critical thinking skills continuously

Educating others with creative tools