Workshops

We offer workshops that are designed to meet your special needs. They are delivered in several modes from "in person" classroom events to totally on line.

On-line Breakthrough Thinking Workshops

Want more help with Breakthrough Thinking? Join us for a four part on-line seminar. Each part is 90 minutes of interactive video with Gerald Nadler and George Hathaway. We are limited the attendance to 18 per session in order to maximize two way interaction and take advantage of the latest in video technology.

We will use Adobe Connect as the base program. Since this uses Flash, there is no need to download an application to your desktop. Of course, you will need Flash 8.0 or higher. With this techology you will be able to see and interact with Prof. Nadler and Mr Hathaway live. If you have your own webcam, others will be able to see and interact with you...otherwise we'll just be able to hear you.

Following each session Professor Nadler and/or Mr. Hathaway will be available for consultation via e-mail, live chat, telephone, or Skype.

We will be scheduling several of these sessions to accomodate people in different regions, including a time that is convenient to our friends in India, Japan, and other parts of Asia. Please contact George Hathaway (george@breakthroughthinking.com) to determine the most current scheduling and to sign up for a workshop.

Here are the four parts:

1) Introduction to Breakthrough Thinking ($25.00)

2) Understanding Purposes ($100.00)

3) Creating Future and Living Solutions ($100.00)

4) Creating situational awarenes using Systems Thinking ($100.00)

Each of the units will require participants to bring a "living" project to class and to use Breakthrough Thinking principles to take their project to the next phase.

Think Like a Leader

• A fully "in person" classroom event that uses an action learning design to maximize the impact of the learning. We use Smart Questions to work on real issues of your choosing. You leave the program with a preliminary plan for dealing with your issue.
• Click here to see the workshop agenda,
• We deliver public programs from time to time. Contact us a info@breakthroughthinking.com in order to learn the date of the next session. Even better, schedule one in your organization where the issues and problems worked on are yours!

Breakthrough Thinking

• A computer based course designed to deliver the principles of Breakthrough Thinking conviently to your desktop at the times of your choosing.
• Click here to take the course.

If you are interested in learning more about the principles of Breakthrough Thinking and how these principles can help you lead a more powerful life and develop Breakthrough Solutions, join us for an intensive 2 day workshop.

• Learn to make 'change' an ally
• Employ the thought process used by succesful leaders
• Initiate a discipline for working in the right direction
• Develop a 'whole picture' or system consciousness
• Concentrate on long range and current issues
• Build purposeful teams
• Harness creativity in all phases of a project
• Equip everyone with superior decision-making capability

Gerald Nadler is IBM Chair Emeritus in Engineering Management at the University of Southern California and also President of The Center for Breakthrough Thinking Inc.

George Hathaway, Executive Vice President of the Center. He specializes in helping organizations through the creation and execution of leadership development initiatives. He has extensive experience in the design of training curricula and programs in collaboration with leadership initiatives.

 

Who Should Attend

Managers, association executives, team leaders, educators, quality and production managers, systems designers, strategic planners, facilitators and management consultants; anyone looking for innovative ways to significantly increase the effectiveness of efforts to plan, design, improve, reengineer, problem solve and implement change.