Summary:
By exploring contemporary examples of productivity enhancement through simple, creative solutions, Tom Logsdon highlights those professional approaches and thought processes that help trigger routine billion-dollar breakthroughs. This exciting motivational course is designed to increase on-the-job productivity by emphasizing individual creativity, professional discipline, and satisfying team membership. You are encouraged to bring with you to the first class meeting a specific professional problem you have been itching to solve. Four times each day you will be led through structured exercises designed to help you conjure up simple, creative solutions. To help reinforce the "winning strategies" creative individuals use when they make major breakthroughs, you will received a packet of 200 summary charts jam-packed with useful information on creative problem-solving techniques, two 16 page workbooks filled with blank worksheets, and an autographed copy of the instructor's book, “Six Simple, Creative Solutions that Shook the World.”
Instructor:
Thomas Logsdon knows how to make you more efficient and productive by helping you solve all of these problems in amazingly simple ways. He also knows how to solve at least 400 other practical problems with similar simplicity. Logsdon is an award-winning rocket scientist with an international reputation. He has written and published 1.7 million words, including 31 non-fiction books. He has delivered 1500 lectures, helped design an exhibit for the Smithsonian Institution, applied for a patent, and made guest appearances on 25 television shows. A highly innovative mathematician and systems analyst in the aerospace industry, Logsdon has helped mastermind such large and complicated projects as the Apollo moon flights, NASA's orbiting Skylab, and the DoD's Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation system.
Logsdon has taught more than three hundred courses in 31 different countries. His combination of teaching, writing, lecturing, and industry experience uniquely qualify him to teach this motivational short course on productivity enhancement and simple, creative problem-solving techniques.
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Course Outline:
- Getting Into The Proper Frame of Mind to Become More Creative.
"Possibility Thinking": Devising new ways to accentuate your creative problem-solving skills. Surrounding yourself with supportive people. Enhancing your creativity. Brainstorming. Technologies. Mastering and using the six winning strategies on the Arc of Creativity.
- Breaking Your Problem Apart, Then Putting it Back Together Again.
Fred Smith's marvelously efficient architectural concept. Learning how to use mind-mapping techniques and balloon diagrams. Finding a better way to make more and better army muskets.
- Taking a Fresh Look at the Interfaces.
John Houbolt's powerful new strategy for conquering the moon. Designing today's user-friendly computing machines. Simplifying today's needlessly complicated business forms. Learning to modify the interfaces with balloon diagrams. Imaginative interfaces.
- Reformulating Your Problem.
Finding a powerful new way to turn a problem into a productive solution. A 5-point checklist for reformulating your stickiest problems. An innovative scheme for finding and circumventing any real or imagined constraints. Combining two problems to make both go away. Constructing and using your own magic grid.
- Visualizing a Fruitful Analogy.
Finding a fancy new way to "weave" numbers into meaningful patterns. Learning to formulate industrial-strength metaphors. Turning mother nature's raindrops into highly effective weapons.
- Searching For a Useful Order-of-Magnitude Changes.
Making megabucks by building tomorrow's castles in the sky. Using logarithmic scales to depict highly productive conceptual ideas. Learning to harness and exploit the magic powers of ten. Scientific hopes for tomorrow's micromachines.
- Staying Alert to Happy Serendipity.
Galileo's highly insightful visit to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. A brief history of scientific serendipity. Mastering and exploiting serendipity's golden rule. The synthetic meteorite: A joyous adventure in personal discovery. Relaxing vacations, serendipity, and success.
- Getting Your Ideas Accepted in a Gangling Bureaucracy.
Using the Arc of Creativity to conjure up creative ideas in abundant numbers. Repackaging your best ideas for public consumption. Caucusing your colleagues to gain their professional support. Pitching your creative solutions in a formal written report. Preparing yourself to deliver tomorrow's highly persuasive technicolor presentations. Using what you have learned to attack all of your future professional problems. The joys and benefits of the creative connection.
Tuition:
Tuition for this two-day course is $990 per person at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email to ati@ATIcourses.com.
