BS3916 Thinking about Management

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BS3916 Thinking about Management
6 Individuals and Cognitive styles
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BS3916 Thinking about Management6 Individuals
and Cognitive styles

• He who only has a hammer treats every problem as
  though it were a nail

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BS3916 Thinking about Management6 Individuals
and Cognitive styles

1. Can you discern your own mental model (e.g. for
   achieving success)
2. Listen to others descriptions and check out your
   perceptions of other group members mental
   models
3. Can you learn anything by sharing these mental
   models ?

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BS3916 Thinking about Management6 Individuals
and Cognitive styles

• Demings model is Handys model is
• Plan ? Decide
• Do ? Do
• Check ? Reflect
• Act ? Connect
• for building quality into work processes

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BS3916 Thinking about Management6 Individuals
and Cognitive styles

• Each team draw a circle using the Deming or
  Handy model describing how team learning should
  occur in your present group
• Show everyone the circle you have drawn
• At which point do you feel most comfortable?
• Are these models good for team functioning?

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BS3916 Thinking about Management6 Individuals
and Cognitive styles

• Brainstorm the absence of car-parking space.
• Rules are
• Quantity of ideas
• Connect all ideas
• Unconventional ideas are best
• Suspend judgement
• Carry on until all participate

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BS3916 Thinking about Management6 Individuals
and Cognitive styles

• In your debriefing session
• What style of thinking deployed here ?
• What about the quiet members ?
• Did a consensus emerge if not, why not ?
• Will divergent thinking bring about the answer ?

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BS3916 Thinking about Management6 Individuals
and Cognitive styles

• How to you learn/revise best
• What works best for you
• And what works worst
• 3 useful tips to pass on are
• 3 things to avoid are
• We learn best when we

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BS3916 Thinking about Management6 Individuals
and Cognitive styles

• De Bonos Six Hats

White Objective info (facts and figures) What facts do I need ? How do I get them?.
Red Feelings, emotions, non-rational feelings How do I
Black Why ideas will not work What are downsides ?
Yellow Opportunities, possibilities Advantages? Best possible outcome ?
Green Creative new ideas Fresh innovative approaches, creative
Blue Control of the thinking process Cool Review thoughts, think of next logical step
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BS3916 Thinking about Management6 Individuals
and Cognitive styles

• De Bonos Six Hats
• Use this scheme to think of uses for the
  Millennium Dome
• Each student should wear one hat
• Discuss with others after a solution has been
  reached whether or not you felt wearing that
  colour of hat a trying experience or not.