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Linz, Austria

INSTRUCTOR H. WILLIAM DETTMER. Jonah's Jonah. Internationally renowned consultant in the application of constraint management. Author of four books on the Theory of Constraints, including Goldratt's Theory of Constraints, Breaking the Constraints to World-Class Performance, Strategic Navigation, and The Logical Thinking Process.

The thinking process is a five-tool method for enabling anyone in any kind of organization to determine:

• What SHOULD be happening?
• WHAT to change?
• What to change TO?
• HOW to effect the change?

Participants are asked to bring to the workshop an issue of personal interest and importance to themselves, either a real-world complex system problem or a strategy development situation. You will be learning the Logical Thinking Process as you solve your complex problem or develop your strategy.

What's the problem?
Current Reality Tree. Reveals root causes of the undesirable outcomes or performance we see in any system—the constraint preventing improved performance.

What do we do about it?
Evaporating Cloud. Identifies and resolves both overt and hidden conflict perpetuating root causes of undesirable outcomes. Helps create new, lasting solutions to chronic problems.

Future Reality Tree. Structures a “master change plan” and verifies that proposed solutions will work before resources are invested in them. Identifies possible adverse side-effects of the proposed solution and ways to prevent them.

How do we start?
Prerequisite Tree. Uncovers obstacles to execution of the change plan and helps create ways around the obstacles. Time-sequences the indispensable actions required to overcome the obstacles.

Execution/Change Management. Converting new ideas into solutions; managing decision-maker expectations; overcoming resistance to change.

WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO AFTER COMPLETING THIS COURSE
Successfully identify the true causes of unsatisfactory outcomes in YOUR system, whether personal or professional, using logical, verifiable cause-and-effect

• Identify and resolve daily and chronic conflicts that hinder you from achieving your goals

• Evaluate the potential for success before initiating change (risk mitigation), either in your personal life or in your organization

• Uncover the pitfalls that could result from any change you might consider making and determine what you should do to "navigate" around them

• Identify the "roadblocks" to change and the ways to overcome them (and in what order)

• Lay out a detailed implementation plan for change and persuade others to help with it

• Improve your odds of success before even beginning to take action

• Quickly identify questionable or ill-considered proposals from others
  

• Executives with strategic or tactical leadership responsibilities

• Internal or external change agents responsible for complex problem-solving

• Project managers faced with a rapidly changing environment

• Managers with responsibility for quality or continuous improvement (i.e., lean, Six Sigma, kaizen, etc.) within their organizations

The workshop consists of six 8-hour days (8:00 AM to 4:00 PM) in two three-day sessions with a weekend between them...Wednesday through Friday, and Monday through Wednesday.

FEE: €3,600 per person.
Attendees are responsible for their own travel and meals. Linz hotel information will be provided upon request.

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