Think better to do better — with Productive Thinking. This disciplined, systematic approach to innovation and creativity will change the way you perform — for good.

Half-day Productive Thinking Workshop
$450 includes materials and refreshments
Toronto March 10 @ Verity, 111d Queen St E (also June 9)

Think you think as well as you can? Think again.
Regardless of your basic equipment you can learn to think better — more productively, more creatively, more effectively. Based on Tim Hurson's acclaimed book, Think Better, the Productive Thinking Workshop shows you a proven, repeatable process that will help you have more ideas, better ideas, more of the time.

"The seminar was outstanding! I found Productive Thinking to be enormously energizing and enabling. Greatly exceeding my already high expectations, Productive Thinking unleashes creativity and innovation... a tool that accelerates everyone's effectiveness."
— Roger J. Burns, Worldwide Partner, Mercer Human Resource Consulting

The thinkx Productive Thinking model has helped thousands of people in Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 corporations around the world think more creatively, more innovatively, and more productively. Learn the real secret of the great minds in history — that productive thinking is a skill that can be learned and developed.

Why think better?
Both in your business and personal life, the better you can think, evaluate, and apply your ideas, the more successful you will be.

The Productive Thinking Workshop will introduce you to the essential principles of our productive thinking methodology. You'll learn and apply the skills you need to develop your untapped thinking capacity to solve problems, discover opportunities, and implement solutions.

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The Productive Thinking Workshop will help you
think better, work better, do better.

Why attend the thinkx Productive Thinking Workshop?

    "An easy, powerful tool for creative thinking, and well worth the time. Energizing and incredibly useful."
    — Todd Renn, Director, Conagra Foods

  • Learn to recognize and overcome the three most common barriers to thinking more productively.
  • Experience how to break the unproductive thinking patterns holding you back.
  • Learn to apply the single most effective productive thinking principle ever developed.
  • Discover the two core productive thinking tools that can transform the way you approach problems.
  • Unlock the wealth of ideas and answers already inside you.

About thinkx
thinkx intellectual capital works with major organisations around the world to help create a sustainable culture of innovation. We provide training and facilitation in Productive Thinking to help develop new products, new processes, new business models, and new strategies.

This thinkx workshop is about Productive Thinking — why it's important, how it works, and how to use it at work, at home, and at play. Productive Thinking is a simple but powerful approach to thinking better. It helps people understand more clearly, think more creatively, and plan more effectively. It's straightforward to learn, practical to implement, and it works.

We guarantee it will change the way you think.
You'll be amazed at how smart you are.

"I can't wait to share today. I am positive my colleagues will find thinkx a great tool."
— Judith Balcerzak, Director, Institute for Private Investors

Productive Thinking and innovation
Productive Thinking is a game changer. Everybody talks about innovation these days, but very few actually know how to achieve it. Productive Thinking shines a bright light on the straightforward thinking strategies that creative geniuses have been using for centuries. Productive Thinking brings thinking better out of the closet and packages it in a way that makes it easy for you to grasp and use — so you can think better, work better, and do better in every aspect of your life.

The thinkx Productive Thinking Workshop will give you the keys to unlock your natural productive intelligence and unblock your thinking. You will learn how to generate more, and more useful, ideas than ever before — and translate them into result-oriented action.

"Outstanding! Your productive thinking model is the Six Sigma for soft data issues."
— Cindy Steigerwald, Mgr, Training & OD, Dealer Tire Corporation

All of us already have the ideas we need to succeed. They are inside us all the time. The trick is to capture them so that you can use them. Haven't you had your best ideas in the shower or while driving or exercising or just daydreaming? Wouldn't it be great to be able to capture those ideas and really put them to work? Productive Thinking shows you how.

thinkx Productive Thinking shows you how you can start with an intractable technical problem, an unmet consumer need, or a gaping chasm in your business strategy and, by following a clearly defined, practical thinking process, arrive at a robust, innovative solution.

Global companies use the thinkx Productive Thinking Model to generate innovative solutions to complex business problems. It shows you how to translate even the toughest personal or financial problems into powerful, practical solutions.

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Think Better
The Productive Thinking Model is described in Tim Hurson's book Think Better.

There are hundreds of books on thinking or creativity or innovation. Just about every business book, self-help book, pop psych book, and leadership book ever written mentions the importance of thinking better. But there are very few books that provide clear how-to information that can actually help you Think Better.

Think Better shows how great companies and great individuals have succeeded by applying a set of easy-to-learn, practical principles that can actually raise the power of people's thinking. By developing your Productive Thinking capacity you can generate more ideas, more innovative ideas, more workable ideas, and, ultimately, more success.

"By far one of the most readable, insightful and immediately applicable books on thinking and how the mind works. Get copies for everyone you work with, talk about it together and then get on with inventing your future."
— Ian Percy, Reg. Psych, CSP, HoF, CPAE author of The Profitable Power of Purpose and Going Deep

It is quality of thinking that differentiates great companies and people from merely good ones. We at thinkx believe that most organizations have the ideas they need inside their own walls. And most people have great ideas inside their own heads. The trick is to get them out — and turn them into reality.

"The workshop was a major success and all the participants thoroughly enjoyed themselves — even the pre-workshop cynics! This must be a reflection of the power of productive thinking! Most importantly, we came up with some stunning solutions, which I am certain will see the light of day."
— Geoff Smith, Senior Manager Retail Customer Value Proposition, Singapore World Headquarters, Shell Oil

Whether working alone or in teams, individuals will get better results in less time by developing their Productive Thinking skills. With Productive Thinking, individuals discover a new sense of freedom, confidence, and possibility, project teams perform at the highest level of productivity and creativity, and solutions are transformed from good to inspired.

More than anything, Productive Thinking is an attitude that will let you look at problems and convert them into opportunities. At the end of this disciplined brainstorming process, you'll have a concrete action plan, complete with timelines and deadlines.

"A reliable, repeatable approach. I use it extensively with my team in long term planning, process creation, and creative problem solving."
— Pam Johnston, Vice President, Raymond James

We all know people about whom we say, wow he's sharp, or she's wise, or they so creative. Here's the good news. Anyone can learn how to think better. Thinking skills are not innate. It's not: Either you have them or you don't. Anyone can learn to think better. And it's not even that hard. It's just that until relatively recently we didn't understand what made some people seem to be smarter or more creative than others. Most of the people we admire for their creativity or their wisdom or their understanding discover these secrets by accident. In fact, they don't even know what it is they are doing. But cognitive research is clear that you can learn how to think better, and the principles of doing so are pretty simple.

To create the future, you first must be able to imagine it. Productive Thinking is a way to help you do that.

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