A Six-Day Workshop Leading to Self-Sufficiency in the

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?
  

What are we trying to achieve?
Intermediate Objectives Map. Establishes a Goal-Critical Success Factor-Necessary Condition hierarchy as a benchmark for assessing change.

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.

These two text books (and logic tree software)

are provided...

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 get started?

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.

WHEN AND WHERE?
May 9-15, 2008 at Port Angeles, WA (USA), or by individual arrangement at a location of the client's choice (minimum 4 persons).

Minimum class size: 1 person (only for courses conducted in Port Angeles, WA)

WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO AFTER ATTENDING 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

During the day off,  participants will have the opportunity to see some of the natural wonders of the North Olympic Peninsula (see pictures, below)

FEE: US $4,500 per person.

Contact us about group discounts. Attendees are responsible for their own travel, hotel accommodations, and meals. Information on airlines, ground transportation, and hotels will be provided at registration.

INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
For more information and registration, contact Bill Dettmer at:

1-360-565-8300 (Cell: 1-360-460-6375)

or…

gsi@goalsys.com

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• 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

TOP ROW: Bald eagle; Mount Constance; Totems at Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe

MIDDLE ROW: Cape Flattery; Mount Baker; Sunset

BOTTOM ROW: Olympic National Park (all) Marymere Falls; Mount Olympus; Ruby Beach