thinkx | Productive Thinking Fundamentals

To survive in turbulent times, you need the best thinking strategy you can find. You need Productive Thinking.

Productive Thinking Fundamentals (1/2-Day)

You can't afford not to learn how to think better.
Regardless of your basic equipment you can learn to think better — more productively, more creatively, more effectively. Productive thinking is a disciplined, systematic approach to innovation and creativity that will change the way you perform — for good. Based on Tim Hurson's acclaimed book, Think Better, Productive Thinking Fundamentals shows you a proven, repeatable process that will give you more ideas, better ideas, more of the time.

"The seminar was outstanding! I found Productive Thinking to be enormously energizing and enabling. Greatly exceeding my already high expectations, Productive Thinking unleashes creativity and innovation... a tool that accelerates everyone's effectiveness."
— Roger J. Burns, Worldwide Partner, Mercer Human Resource Consulting

think^x productive thinking shows you how you can start with an intractable technical problem, an unmet consumer need, or a weakness in your business strategy and, by following a clearly defined, practical thinking process, arrive at a robust, innovative solution.

“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.” Albert Einstein

Whatever your issue is — taming a difficult problem or finding the next great idea — productive thinking will get you there faster and more effectively than any other thinking strategy you've ever used.

Global companies use the think^x Productive Thinking Process to generate innovative solutions to complex business problems. Now you can, too.

Why think better?
Both in your business and personal life, the better you can think, evaluate, and apply your ideas, the more successful you will be.

Productive Thinking Fundamentals will introduce you to the essential principles of our productive thinking methodology. You'll learn and apply the skills you need to develop your untapped thinking capacity to solve problems, discover opportunities, and implement solutions.

Productive Thinking Fundamentals will help you
think better, work better, do better.

Why attend think^x Productive Thinking Fundamentals?

"An easy, powerful tool for creative thinking, and well worth the time. Energizing and incredibly useful."
— Todd Renn, Director, Conagra Foods

Learn to recognize and overcome the three most common barriers to thinking more productively.
Experience how to break the unproductive thinking patterns holding you back.
Learn to apply the single most effective productive thinking principle ever developed.
Discover the two core productive thinking tools that can transform the way you approach problems.
Unlock the wealth of creativity already inside you.

About think^x
think^x intellectual capital works with major organisations around the world to help create a sustainable culture of innovation. We provide training and facilitation in Productive Thinking to help develop new products, new processes, new business models, and new strategies.

This think^x workshop is about Productive Thinking — why it's important, how it works, and how to use it at work, at home, and at play. Productive Thinking is a simple but powerful approach to thinking better. It helps people understand more clearly, think more creatively, and plan more effectively. It's straightforward to learn, practical to implement, and it works.

We guarantee it will change the way you think.
You'll be amazed at how smart you are.

"I can't wait to share today. I am positive my colleagues will find thinkx a great tool."
— Judith Balcerzak, Director, Institute for Private Investors

Productive Thinking and innovation
Productive Thinking is a game changer. Everybody talks about innovation these days, but very few actually know how to achieve it. Productive Thinking shines a bright light on the straightforward thinking strategies that creative geniuses have been using for centuries. Productive Thinking brings thinking better out of the closet and packages it in a way that makes it easy for you to grasp and use — so you can think better, work better, and do better in every aspect of your life.

think^x Productive Thinking Fundamentals will give you the keys to unlock your natural productive intelligence and unblock your thinking. You will learn how to generate more, and more useful, ideas than ever before — and translate them into result-oriented action.

"Outstanding! Your productive thinking model is the Six Sigma for soft data issues."
— Cindy Steigerwald, Mgr, Training & OD, Dealer Tire Corporation

All of us already have the ideas we need to succeed. They are inside us all the time. The trick is to capture them so that you can use them. Haven't you had your best ideas in the shower or while driving or exercising or just daydreaming? Wouldn't it be great to be able to capture those ideas and really put them to work? Productive Thinking shows you how.

Think Better
The Productive Thinking Model is described in Tim Hurson's book Think Better.

There are hundreds of books on thinking or creativity or innovation. Just about every business book, self-help book, pop psych book, and leadership book ever written mentions the importance of thinking better. But there are very few books that provide clear how-to information that can actually help you Think Better.

Think Better shows how great companies and great individuals have succeeded by applying a set of easy-to-learn, practical principles that can actually raise the power of people's thinking. By developing your Productive Thinking capacity you can generate more ideas, more innovative ideas, more workable ideas, and, ultimately, more success.

"By far one of the most readable, insightful and immediately applicable books on thinking and how the mind works. Get copies for everyone you work with, talk about it together and then get on with inventing your future."
— Ian Percy, Reg. Psych, CSP, HoF, CPAE author of The Profitable Power of Purpose and Going Deep

It is quality of thinking that differentiates great companies and people from merely good ones. We at think^x believe that most organizations have the ideas they need inside their own walls. And most people have great ideas inside their own heads. The trick is to get them out — and turn them into reality.

"The workshop was a major success and all the participants thoroughly enjoyed themselves — even the pre-workshop cynics! This must be a reflection of the power of productive thinking! Most importantly, we came up with some stunning solutions, which I am certain will see the light of day."
— Geoff Smith, Senior Manager Retail Customer Value Proposition, Singapore World Headquarters, Shell Oil

Whether working alone or in teams, individuals will get better results in less time by developing their Productive Thinking skills. With Productive Thinking, individuals discover a new sense of freedom, confidence, and possibility, project teams perform at the highest level of productivity and creativity, and solutions are transformed from good to inspired.

More than anything, Productive Thinking is an attitude that will let you look at problems and convert them into opportunities. At the end of this disciplined brainstorming process, you'll have a concrete action plan, complete with timelines and deadlines.

"A reliable, repeatable approach. I use it extensively with my team in long term planning, process creation, and creative problem solving."
— Pam Johnston, Vice President, Raymond James

We all know people about whom we say, wow he's sharp, or she's wise, or they so creative. Here's the good news. Anyone can learn how to think better. Thinking skills are not innate. It's not: Either you have them or you don't. Anyone can learn to think better. And it's not even that hard. It's just that until relatively recently we didn't understand what made some people seem to be smarter or more creative than others. Most of the people we admire for their creativity or their wisdom or their understanding discover these secrets by accident. In fact, they don't even know what it is they are doing. But cognitive research is clear that you can learn how to think better, and the principles of doing so are pretty simple.

To create the future, you first must be able to imagine it. Productive Thinking is a way to help you do that.