TOC Thinking Process Boot Camp
Have you ever faced a chronic problem that refused to go away, despite your best efforts and intentions? A pinching pain that irritated you for months or even years?
Faced with such a situation, we tend to ignore the problem, lower our expectations, attempt to please everyone, avoid taking ownership, blame others, and alternate between contradictory courses of action.
By not understanding the root cause of our dilemma, we try to address each symptom individually. In fact, many of our current problems are nothing more than side effects of past “solutions!” Our own pattern of thinking prevents us from achieving success!
Faced with such a situation, we tend to ignore the problem, lower our expectations, attempt to please everyone, avoid taking ownership, blame others, and alternate between contradictory courses of action.
By not understanding the root cause of our dilemma, we try to address each symptom individually. In fact, many of our current problems are nothing more than side effects of past “solutions!” Our own pattern of thinking prevents us from achieving success!
Who Should Attend?
This five-week live online workshop is for anyone who wants to learn to use the TOC Thinking Processes tools to solve a significant problems and dilemmas in their personal or professional life.
Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt has developed a practical, step-by-step process to understand problems at their deepest level. By critically examining the underlying assumptions, we learn to discover breakthrough solutions for ourselves and others.
Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt has developed a practical, step-by-step process to understand problems at their deepest level. By critically examining the underlying assumptions, we learn to discover breakthrough solutions for ourselves and others.
Session Outline
1) The Art of Problem Solving
2) What to Change?
3) What to Change To?
4) How to Cause the Change?
5) Putting it All Together
- Tool Overview
- Necessity & Danger of Assumptions
2) What to Change?
- Articulating pain through the Un-Desirable-Effect (UDE)
- Is your UDE really worth solving?
- Constructing the “evaporating cloud” diagram to capture the conflict
3) What to Change To?
- Surfacing hidden assumptions
- Generating injections (possible solutions)
- Evaporating the cloud / eliminating the conflict
- Special cases: Interpersonal Conflicts, Lieutenant Clouds
- Overcoming harmful side effects using the Negative Branch Reservation (NBR)
4) How to Cause the Change?
- Change Matrix Analysis
- Leveraging the 6 Layers of Resistance (to Create Buy-in)
- Overcoming Implementation Obstacles (IO Mapping)
- Execution Planning
5) Putting it All Together
- Generic cloud examples
- Top 10 most common generic injections
- Doubt clearing session
- A final challenge
Our Approach
We carry on Dr. Goldratt’s life purpose “to teach the world to think" by:
- Asking focused questions and nurturing purposeful inquiry
- Identifying and eliminating harmful assumptions
- Inspiring decisive action that improves overall performance SIGNIFICANTLY
Methodology
Each weekly lesson follows a common pattern: background & concept overview, direct application (one personal issue and one work problem), submit your work, receive expert feedback, refine/reflect/integrate, go one level deeper, then repeat.
Personal Feedback & Mentoring
All participants receive personal feedback and mentoring from a TOC expert to assist in mastering the Thinking Processes techniques in solving their own practical problems.
Workload
This course requires a significant commitment in terms of time and energy. Plan to spend 2 hours each Saturday attending live sessions and another 4-6 hours per week completing detailed project work.
Think of this as a guided workout for your mind!
Think of this as a guided workout for your mind!
Certificate
Those who successfully complete every exercise will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Completion for the course.
