THINKING STEPS

A day or two of training will help, but you will find it very easy to slip into some bad
habits. A longer-term integrated approach enables old habits to be broken and new habits
to be formed. None of the techniques are revolutionary, but they require changes to some
simple activities that we do unconsciously everyday.
Step 1: Self and Time Management
You need to start with some basics around planning, goal setting and motivation. Without
these the rest of the programme will fail.
Step 2: Thinking Skills
Mind Mapping

has been around for nearly 30 years and has it's benefits, however for a
modern business context, a technique like Index Diagrams

has a much higher rate of

implementation. These techniques cover the extracting of data - making notes and taking
notes. The next issue is Memory - that is, ensuring that you are able to retain and recall
the thinking at a later stage.
Step 3: Reading Skills
With masses of incoming information we have to be both careful with our choice of reading
and be able to get through the reading material at speed. Strategic Reading focuses on
building speed using some simple techniques as well as offering some simple strategies for
how to get through the volume of reading material more efficiently.
Step 4: Creativity
We are all creative people! In many cases that has been stifled by our education,
upbringing or career choice. With coaching, you are able to develop your creative side and
the value of the ideas could be limitless.
Step 5: Problem Solving and Decision Making
The final step is to develop problem-solving skills. Working in a team or individually, in a
modern business context we have to analyse problems and work towards a solution.
All of these pieces fit together to create a complete toolbox for the mind. As with any
toolbox, you may use some tools in the box more often. But you will never do a good job if
you haven't got the right tools.
Application
1. These techniques are universally applicable and should be taught in
schools. However the reality is that many of us went through school at least a
couple of decades ago and we need to learn techniques to get ourselves through the
remainder of our careers.
2. The main application for this type of programme is in knowledge based
jobs. Someone performing a task-based job with repetitive activities would gain
benefits from an efficiency point of view, but the major winners would be people who
use their mind to earn their salary.
Benefits
1. For the individual, the benefits are significant. Time savings, more focus and
concentration, higher quality output and significantly less stress.
2. Imagine being able to sit down and quickly and easily get all of your ideas down on
paper. But it is not only extraction of the data. Imagine that you could pick it up a
week later (or much longer) and have perfect retention and recall of your ideas and
could add to your notes as you thought of new things.
3. For the organisation the potential benefits are huge. What is the value of the ideas
in your employee's heads right now? Have you got any idea how to get them out?
4. As well as the high value of the opportunities, an organisation is more effectively
utilising its intellectual capital.
5. Finally, we are all discussing the knowledge wave. However, knowledge may not be
the main factor in our success. Applying our thinking capability to problems and
opportunities is what will drive innovation. A 21
st
century version of Kiwi ingenuity.


Thinking" is activity of mind. It works on affirmations and confirmations of comprehensions, observations, conclusions
of the quests and searches of life for learning, earning and problem solving.

I agree with you about thinking differently. It is mindful work out by "own" perception and understanding, though
universal concepts and facts probably be common just as they are, however use of knowledge can be different, which
create or brings "new" and "unique" ideas.

Thanks for your sincere contribution and appreciation.
What is "thinking"?

It is process of sensing inner-self.
It is super cognitive process of "supper conscious" mind.
The process is very fast to ordinary conscious mind.
There are many contributors of this cognitive process, such as:
Senses, Emotions, Observation, Calculation, Imagination, Creation, Intelligence, Memory, Interests, Satisfactions,
Decisions...