Why would CEOs spend any money to have himself and his staff attend this course?

• Looking for a major change in their business and need all minds engaged.
• Need more efficient ways to think about problems.
• Personally need everyone to get re-grounded & re-focused before moving forward with the next phase of their business. New ways of looking at problems helps do that.
• Traditional approaches are no longer effective

What will a Company get from this course?

• A lively, interactive forum of other managers and executives.
• Highly participative & interactive 2 days where all can speak and be heard multiple times and receive feedback from others.
• Opportunity to focus on the future of their company and determine how to get from where they currently are to where they want to be.
• Learn how to apply a powerful technique for capturing ideas and analyzing them.
• Several ideas will be worked through using this tool.

What are the benefits of this course?

• 2 days to work "on" their business not "in" it.
• Leave with at least 2 problems that have been spec'd and quantified and a proposed path to completion defined with a plan to complete the solution over the next 2 months.
• Thoroughly explore external opportunities and threats and decided what to do about them.
• Will have reviewed what's working and not working in your business and crafted a game plan for further improvement and changes.

Format of Course

• Short introduction to each section ie: sparker sessions, no lectures
• Brainstorming
• Group Sharing
• Facilitated Group Feedback
• Facilitated Discussions

The Outcome

At least 2 problems will be analyzed using the 5/67 approach and will include a plan and a time frame to complete a proposed solution.

• Learn how to identify the 5/67 part of the problem.
• Get others involved when you return to the business.

Process will include:

• Identifying and working through problems that are critical to the company using the 5/67 principles of problem solving.
• Letting executives, managers or workers apply the process to problems that they have identified.
• Going through examples of 5/67 problem solving applied in a range of industries.
• Review the application of "5/67" problem solving to strategy, operations, finance, IT, profits, growth, tactics, change, innovation, acquisition assimilation.

The Tools

• A group of experienced CEOs or company executives or managers.
• Highly interactive exercises geared to facilitate brainstorming and applying the 5/67 principles.
• HVLC Innovation
• An experienced Problem Solver from the "Consortium of Problem Solvers" (The COPS) who moderates each session.