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A Thought Leader's Guide to Ideation: Build a foundation and culture of productive critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and problem solving
“We need to be realistic. In this new era, no one will hire or promote you because of what you know. Google already knows everything. Or will soon.” – Bernard Schindlhozler of Google
What is the obvious conclusion we should all draw from this statement?
Companies will hire and promote those who can discover things the company needs to know and doesn’t. “Ideators” in other words.
And ideation means thinking, and thinking means questioning. Our schools have never taught these skills.
Just when employers need our schools to move away from teaching objective facts and towards teaching students how to deal with subjective issues – through critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration and communications - they are defying logic by doubling down on teaching-to-the-tests.
Consequently the supply and demand of human capital are seriously out of sync; and getting worse. This is a matter of the greatest concern to businesses and other employers.
Knowledge workers need tools. The Terego Method© is designed to help employers to teach employees to use these skills.
The Terego Method© is a way to do that. It’s called Socratic Inquiry. And it still works brilliantly after 2400 years.
The Terego Method© of Ideation is a structured learning system that trains employees to think critically in a team about a problem, and to clearly communicate their agreed ideation as the best possible solution.
I have brought this ancient method up-to-date through step-by-step deliberate thinking.
Thought-Leaders among the training, instructional design and learning officer communities can play a strategic role in methodically driving the thinking-through of problems using deep questioning, collaboration and innovation in their organizations.
Critical Thinking can be described very simply. Step one: Ask a question. Step two: Answer the question. Step three: Question the answer. Step Four: Repeat until satisfied.
The first answer to a question is the beginning of inquiry not the end. Step three is critical, and rarely used.
Socrates taught that the key to thinking, solving and communicating is deep questioning – something small children excel at – and adults not so much.
Practicing critical thinking and problem solving in a collaborative setting, whilst working on real problems, is an efficient, unobtrusive way of permanently embedding these skills into everyday activities, thus ensuring “buy in.”
What is the obvious conclusion we should all draw from this statement?
Companies will hire and promote those who can discover things the company needs to know and doesn’t. “Ideators” in other words.
And ideation means thinking, and thinking means questioning. Our schools have never taught these skills.
Just when employers need our schools to move away from teaching objective facts and towards teaching students how to deal with subjective issues – through critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration and communications - they are defying logic by doubling down on teaching-to-the-tests.
Consequently the supply and demand of human capital are seriously out of sync; and getting worse. This is a matter of the greatest concern to businesses and other employers.
Knowledge workers need tools. The Terego Method© is designed to help employers to teach employees to use these skills.
The Terego Method© is a way to do that. It’s called Socratic Inquiry. And it still works brilliantly after 2400 years.
The Terego Method© of Ideation is a structured learning system that trains employees to think critically in a team about a problem, and to clearly communicate their agreed ideation as the best possible solution.
I have brought this ancient method up-to-date through step-by-step deliberate thinking.
Thought-Leaders among the training, instructional design and learning officer communities can play a strategic role in methodically driving the thinking-through of problems using deep questioning, collaboration and innovation in their organizations.
Critical Thinking can be described very simply. Step one: Ask a question. Step two: Answer the question. Step three: Question the answer. Step Four: Repeat until satisfied.
The first answer to a question is the beginning of inquiry not the end. Step three is critical, and rarely used.
Socrates taught that the key to thinking, solving and communicating is deep questioning – something small children excel at – and adults not so much.
Practicing critical thinking and problem solving in a collaborative setting, whilst working on real problems, is an efficient, unobtrusive way of permanently embedding these skills into everyday activities, thus ensuring “buy in.”
119 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 5, 2018
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