Seminar Title: Enterprise Thinking

Length: 9 hours

Format: two 4.5-hour sessions over two days, presented as an in-person event

Class Size: 6 - 20 attendees

Presented by: Bill Bellows (contact info below)

Registration Fee: $150, with a $25 discount for Bainbridge Graduate Institute ("BGI") "family" members (students, faculty, and staff, plus immediate family). Payment may be made by check (mailed to the In2:InThinking Network, P.O. Box 9384, Canoga Park, CA 91309) or by PayPal (in which case we will send an invoice; see note below). Link here to register below.

Location: REI Seattle Flagship Store, 222 Yale Ave. N (view the map)

Dates and times: Saturday, January 23rd  (1:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.)
and Sunday, January 24th (11:00 a.m. – 3:30p.m.)

Seminar Flyer for January 23-24, 2010 Session in Seattle

Photos From Previous Class, courtesy of Anne Herman, AnneHerman.com

Description: The objective of this 9-hour seminar is to explore the philosophies of a variety of management theorists; (including but not limited to) Russell Ackoff,
W. Edwards Deming, Edward de Bono, Tom Johnson, Peter Senge, and Genichi Taguchi; as they apply to better resource management and resource leadership in our organizations.  Included is the the exploration of "better thinking about thinking", directed toward the performance of products and processes; the delivery of services; plus the ability to create sustainable communities.

Target Audience: Anyone who is concerned about improving the effectiveness of individuals and organizations will gain from this seminar and leave with a new and deeper knowledge of the organizational environment and external environment in which we live. Past participants include individual contributors, teams, senior managers, managing directors, managers, engineers, designers, artists, graduate and undergraduate students, human resource professionals, secretaries, office administrators, purchasing agents, accountants, health care professionals, civic leaders, university deans, and professors.

Testimonials About This Seminar From Bainbridge Graduate Institute Faculty, Staff, and Students

Tom Johnson, Distinguished Consulting Faculty Member
The Enterprise Thinking class that Bill Bellows presents to his colleagues at Rocketdyne and to public seminars around the world is one of the most stimulating and informative seminars I have ever attended. Bill's insights into systems thinking are unique and powerful. For many years I have presented his ideas to my MBA students at Portland State University and have received nothing but praise and thanks from them for the introduction to Bill's thinking. No one should miss the chance to attend this highly original and important class.

Anne Herman, C6 Student
When I heard Peter Senge speak, he said we need to learn new ways of thinking and learning and working together if we want to save our planet.

Enterprise Thinking showed me ways to think about and manage teams and groups, so that people pull together, instead of against each other. The class is both intellectually stimulating and very practical.

I left Enterprise Thinking with new ideas, new techniques for managing people and teams, and a new network of like-minded people. I whole-heartedly recommend it for anyone interested in sustainability.

Testimonials About This Seminar From Recent Public Class Attendees

High Points:
o Keeps assisting me with the integrating of ideas and concepts
o Digesting all of the information; glad it wasn’t all in one day; great information
o Better understanding of thinking about thinking; better thinking; open thinking
o Hands on exercises; sharing of anecdotes
o Talking with colleagues about how this could start to become a possibility where we work; smaller than a seed but still a glimmer
o New thinking about In2:InThinking/ teamwork; reinforced rewards, etc. of “Old Thinking”
o Red Pen Company/Blue Pen Company matrix
o The “Ah-Ha” on the 2nd day!
o Understanding what’s wrong with tolerances; Duh!

Key Insights and Ideas
o Celebrate general success instead of singling out individuals for rewards
o 1+1 doesn’t always equal 2; it depends on the relationship/teamwork of the individuals
o Red Pen Company, Blue Pen Company theory
o It’s not the person; it’s the system!
o How all encompassing Enterprise Thinking can be or is; how it can touch all areas of each interaction; human relationships
o Thinking beyond the immediate solution
o Different ways of looking at teamwork and interdependency
o “Two people thinking together are better than 100 people divided.” Bill
o One of many; thinking in circles; I am down stream of everything; work with who has the most leverage

Application For Me
o I’ll reform my plans for awards in my organization
o Take this concept back to my organization & begin building a network for transformation
o Using this information to start to have the conversation of changing from a Red Pen Company vs. Blue Pen Company
o As a parent & coach, as well as obviously at work, practicing theories
o This will help in our task of hiring a new dept. director and the reorganizing of services we offer
o Helps me with my role in organization & how to encourage/motivate others; especially ones I manage/work with
o This seminar gives me a new way of thinking through everything I do
o Continue to pick up nails in the parking lot and to remember I am always downstream
o Keep attending “Thinking Roadmap” events and reading

Senior Management Feedback
“This workshop should be viewed by all Senior Management in our organization.”
General Manager

“A great set of ideas well presented.”
University Lecturer

“A lot of challenging thinking in a short space. Thanks for putting the brain back in gear.”
Managing Director

“A challenging workshop for extending understanding about what makes an organization successful. Powerful learning in a stimulating environment – great fun, too!”
President

Contact: Bill Bellows can be reached by email at bill@in2in.org for additional information about this seminar.

Bill is an Associate Technical Fellow in the Enterprise Thinking Network at United Technologies’ Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne business unit in Canoga Park. He is known within Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and his previous employer, Boeing, and for his efforts to provide insights to the advantages of thinking together, learning together, and working together. Audiences for his classes have also reached after-school program in elementary schools, graduate students at Northwestern University, public workshops at the University of Richmond in Virginia and California Polytechnic State University in California, as well as, corporate, university, and public classes across the United Kingdom.

Away from work, Bill serves as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds in England, and as a board member of the W. Edwards Deming Institute, the Volunteers of America – Los Angeles chapter. He is also a founding board member and current President of the In2:InThinking Network, a non-profit company dedicated to the pursuit of “better thinking about thinking,” for individuals and organizations. Bill earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

REGISTRATION NOTICE: WE WILL ACCEPT REGISTRATIONS UP TO THE START OF CLASS (JANUARY 23RD AT 1:00PM), WITH "WALK-INS" WELCOMED. DUE TO A SCHEDULED SURVEY MAINTENANCE PLAN, ONLINE REGISTRATION WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE ON JANUARY 22ND, FROM 6:00PM-12:00AM.

To register to attend, first complete our online survey to provide us with your contact information, registration fee, and method of payment. Each attendee must complete the registration survey .

Next, upon completing the survey, please submit your payment either ONLINE or by CHECK;

ONLINE: for online payments, we will send you a PayPal link, along with an invoice, in a separate e-mail notice. Follow the instructions for payment, either through your PayPal account, or using a credit card, if you are not a PayPal member.

CHECK: for payment by check, please send your check to the In2:InThinking Network at P.O. Box 9384, Canoga Park, CA 91309. Upon receipt, a receipt will be mailed to you. Let us know if you need an invoice to submit with your check. If so, contact our registrar by e-mail at registrar@in2in.org or call us at 562-204-6246. If not, we will send a receipt once we receive your payment.

PayPal Payments: for online payments, you will receive an invoice, such as this example, from which you can pay through your PayPal account, or use a credit card.

Refund Policy: Full refunds will be made for cancellation notices received (email to registar@in2in.org) before Friday, January 15th. Partial reimbursement (all but $25) will be made for cancellations made after January 15th. Full registration payment can also be deferred to classes planned for later in 2010.

Additional Questions? Please contact our registrar by email at registrar@in2in.org or call us at 562-204-6246.