Abstract: In a session designed for both new and returning attendees, Bill and Tim will use a Round Robin presentation format to present several tool and techniques, as well as concepts and strategies for working, learning, and thinking together. Work today gets done in teams, through collaboration. Consultants need to collaborate with the training department and/or the business unit. Internal trainers need to collaborate with one another, and with the business units they support. Just think how much simpler it would be if the barriers to collaboration were easy to identify and we had ready access to better mental models and physical tools. This meeting will introduce multiple tools and the thinking models behind them. Join us for a Rapid Robin session that helps us recognize barriers to collaboration and presents tools and techniques to elevate our collaboration skills.

RAPID ROBIN TOPICS
De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
Red Pen & Blue Pen Organizations

Come prepared to move throughout the room as you work with the tools and ideas. You’ll leave with new insights, techniques, and additional resources for future use.

Biography: Bill Bellows (right) is an Associate Fellow in the InThinking Network at United Technologies’ Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne business unit in Canoga Park, California, where he is known 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, as well as corporate, university, and public classes across the United Kingdom. Bill earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Away from work, Bill serves as president of the In2:InThinking Network, and as a board member of the W. Edwards Deming Institute, and the Volunteers of America – Los Angeles chapter. He also serves on the editorial board of the Lean Management Journal. He lives in Valencia with wife, Monica, and their two college-aged children, Allison and Wilson.

Contact: Bill can be reached by e-mail at william.bellows@pwr.utc.com for additional information about this Weekend Conference session.

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-bellows/0/435/218/

Biography: Tim Higgins (right) operates as a Safety and Mission Assurance Specialist representing NASA’s interests on rocket engines designed and manufactured for NASA by Rocketdyne in Canoga Park. His work life includes five years with NASA, twenty-nine with Rocketdyne, and eight teaching high school math and English. Though management always provided him assignments, Tim saw his assignment as messing with the frontal lobes of those trapped in the prevailing style of management. He is certified to teach Six Thinking Hats, Lateral Thinking, and Problem Solving / Decision Making. He conducts training and consulting aimed at better understanding cause-effect relationships, processes, improvement potentials, opportunities and risks. He conducts discussions of The New Economics with participants from US, Canada, and the UK. The implications of quantum physics – inseparability of the observer from the thing observed, particle wave duality, entanglement – especially when extended beyond the realm of the very small, fascinate him.

Tim spends three days a week playing the beautiful game (futebol) and every day adoring a Brazilian wife who saves him a fortune shopping. With his trilingual, music loving, 22 year old son, he wanders galleries and museums and plays the beautiful game.

Contact: Tim can be reached by e-mail at timothy.higgins@pwr.utc.com for additional information about this Weekend Conference session.

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/tim-higgins/8/890/79