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TOPICS

1. The Shock of the Possible

Why We Can't Solve 21st Century Problems with 20th Century Thinking

The problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
-Albert Einstein

Author and innovation consultant Tim Hurson paints a compelling picture of how old-style thinking got us where we are and why it just won't cut it in today's financial, marketing, and organizational environment.

But Tim doesn't just describe our dilemma. He offers a way out — a new brand of thinking, Productive Thinking, that will be the critical differentiator between individuals and organizations that stagnate and those that thrive in the new world.

Based on the ideas in his forthcoming book, The Shock of the Possible, this talk — inspiring, engaging, and practical — is a must if you need to galvanize your audience into thinking out of the slump.

As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, then shall we save our [selves].
-Abraham Lincoln

2. 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.

3. Productive Thinking Workshop

Your organization's most important resource is its capacity for productive thinking. The better your people can think, evaluate, and apply their ideas, the more successful you are.

Tim offers customized thinking methodologies, tools and approaches designed to enhance any organization's effectiveness.

It is a disciplined program based on over 50 years of cognitive research that maximizes company positives and confronts negatives. It motivates employees to think more creatively and efficiently.

Productive thinking offers the knowledge, skills, and tools to develop the untapped thinking capacity of your people, so they can solve problems, discover opportunities, and implement solutions.

4. Quantum Thinking (breakout/workshop)

When external energy stimulates our senses, electro-chemical signals are transmitted to the brain which, in turn, forms images, or "percepts". We respond to these percepts as if they were the external world, but in fact, the interactions take place entirely within us. The world we know is the one we create through our percepts. Because all experience is an interaction with your own sensory system, no one else can experience your world exactly as you do. And you can't experience anyone else's. So it behooves us to learn to communicate in a way that honours both our own private percepts and the agreed-upon reality we share with others. This interactive session is guaranteed to make you laugh and give you insights into how your perceptions govern your behaviours!

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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!