How to use the thinking to have more productive and quicker meetings.

Everyday thousands of meetings take place: useless, expensive and in the wrong way. Only in the US, the annual cost for “bad meetings” is 37 billion of dollars a year. Middle managers spend 35% of the time in meetings and top managers more than 50%, on average.

Meethink™ course was developed in order to maximise people’s time during meetings and make them more productive. In fact, thanks to the techniques acquired during the course, the participants will learn an easy method that will allow them to save time during meetings and to increase the quantity and the quality of ideas.

Moreover, thanks to the Meethink™ profile test, the participants will discover their dominant thinking styles and the ones of their colleagues too.

Objectives

• 50% of time saved during meetings.
• To increase from 100% till 500% the number of ideas during business meetings.
• To discover the dominant thinking styles.
• To get to know the creative process for meetings (in addition to brainstorming).

Solutions

• Base course 2 days
• Customised coaching

Methodologies base course 2 days

Interactive methodology: theoretical moments and practical exercitation and simulations during the class.

Test - Meethinker™: a test that allow you to discover your thinking styles, and understand what blocks you during meeting management.

Contents

The three phases of Meethink™:

1. Before the meeting
2. During the meeting
3. After the meeting

The parallel thinking and the 10 thinking styles for meetings.

Test - Meethinker™

A test to discover your thinking styles to identify how to exploit the potential, both individual and of the group, in order to have more efficient meetings.

Meeting typologies:

1. Analytic/evaluative
2. Creative
3. OrganizActional
4. Communicative/informative
5. Motivational

Management of the most frequent mistakes during meetings:

1. Wrong objectives
2. Too long meetings
3. No shared rules
4. Time management before and after meetings

Emotions during meetings:

1. “Dead of reunion”: the re-born of passion
2. Transform conflict into opportunity for the group (how to motivate and non-demotivate people during the “Meethink”)

4 roles of a Meethink™

1. Leader
2. Facilitator
3. Recorder
4. Participants

Description

Project Mind™ is the result of 20 years of experience in the field of Project Management, together with developed tools of the brain function. The participants will learn how to recognise their dominant thinking styles.

We were mostly inspired by neuroscientific studies and the evolution of Edward de Bono’ thinking, guru of the Creative thinking.

Objectives

• To deepen and to experiment instruments of Project Management for the efficient management of projects.
• To know and to identify purposes, methods and resources.
• To enhance communicative and relational competences.
• To know and to manage the project objectives in relation to the needs of customer, of business ties and of content.
• To know and to use methodologies of planning activities, of resources and of time and to use analysis instruments of costs, coordination and control.
• To value your own stile (Project Mind).
• To experiment tools, procedures and documents with referment to project management.

Solutions

• Base course 2 days
• Formative path “Project Management” (3 days: 2+1 day after 1 month)

Methodologies

1. Contents (theory of reference on PM and frontal explanation)
2. Didactical methodologies (frontal class, individual exercitations, group exercitations, test, video supports, cases)

Contents

1. Approach to project management and success factors.
2. Expectations and conditioning on the project realisation by “external factors” and “internal actors”.
3. Objectives identifications, requirements and project strategies.
4. Start and launch of a project.
5. Project life cycle.
6. Identification of the “structures” in which the project has been organised.
7. From the Work Breakdown Structure to the temporal planning (Gant and Perth diagram).
8. Resources and budget of the project.
9. Methodology for project management and for the creation of an adequate system of “reporting”.
10. Introduction of methodology for risk identification and their management (Risk management).
11. Overview on tolls.
12. Individual and company profiling of dominant thinking styles.

In the 3-days version, there will be a real project that you can work on in an active way, with the support of a project learning platform and learning community.

LIDEARship is the ability to be able to achieve an IDEA.

Creativity becomes action and practical implementation.

In this individual path all the Markethink presuppositions and instruments go hand in hand, adapting them to the individual thinking styles and the ones of the group.

Through an individual Assessment path, we can analyse the thinking styles and go on with a customised development path, both individual and for the group.

Objectives

• Excellences reinforcement
• Criticality improvement in relation to the role
• Team construction with complementary styles in order to create ideas and solutions.

Solutions

Customised path.

Methodology

Initial Assessment, customised coaching.

Statistics say that a well-trained lecturer can read 200 words in a minute (w/m) and he is able to understand 30% of the meaning, on average.

ReADAR course is focused on the development of abilities that allow you to increase the reading speed and, most important thing, comprehension.

Objectives

• Duplicate/Triplicate your own reading speed and your comprehension level of texts.
• Decrease the reading time.

Solutions

2 days path + 1 days of follow up

Methodology

Interactive methodology with some theoretical moments with practical exercitations, simulations, an entrance test and a final test to measure results, on line platform and coaching.

Contents

1. Entrance test on reading;

2. Reading process and strategies;

1. Preparations
2. Preview
3. Fluent reading
4. Fast reading

3. Techniques on how to focus the attention;

4. Intuitive reading, PhotoReading®;

5. Techniques on how to increase natural speed in reading: saccadic movements speed and focal field/area widening;

6. Active reading: sq3r method for the reading quality;

7. Active elaboration techniques of read information;

8. Management of focusing natural rhythm;

9. Reading motivation;

10. Final test to measure progresses on reading performance.