BREAKTHROUGH THINKING vs INCREMENTALISM

• how to distinguish between two different thinking systems and the very different results they achieve
  
  
• practice using both on simple examples
  
  
• switch from your usual incremental thinking to methods that produce step-change results

THE CONCEPT OF TRIANGULAR THINKING

• learn the three key thinking strategies that combine to produce the sort of results we only otherwise experience in a crisis or on special projects

1. HOW TO PICTURE STEP-CHANGE vs HAPPY DOING A BIT BETTER

• how the size of your goal dictates the action steps you generate
  
  
• the way "mission impossible" works
  
  
• how to generate the opposite of complacency
  
  
• how to use an emotional word-picture
  
  
• how to use the reticular activating system and cognitive dissonanceto generate breakthrough thoughts
  
  
• how to think backwards from the future you want to create
  
  
• how to use the interior designer approach
  
  
• how to get a team to agree a step-change goal
  
  
• how to separate this from the budget or forecast process

2. HOW TO BUILD KNOW-HOW vs DROWN-IN-INFORMATION

• how more and more information no longer helps
  
  
• how to stop drowning in information and build know-how
  
  
• how to push back on information pollution
  
  
• the tools to build the know-how to achieve your step-change

• learn the pitfalls and limitations of brainstorming
  
  
• how to access your imagination through new breakthrough thinking strategies
  
  
• learn the tools to become whole-brained vs left-brained
  
  
• how to choose powerful vs limited mindsets

• how to increase dramatically your intentionality to put the tools into practice after the Masterclass
  
  
• how to use weekly telecoaching to help you form new habits over the next 40 days

• how to separate real ‘action’ from mere ‘activity’
  
  
• how to generate extraordinary action rather than ordinary
  
  
• the 3 key strategies that produce breakthrough action

• how to emulate Churchill, Martin Luther King and Ghandi, who used few but powerful words to move nations and inspire extraordinary action
  
  
• how to make use of techniques used by powerful advertising to get action
  
  
• learn to cut through the 20,000 random words used in a typical day
  
  
• learn 5 tools to generate sets of powerful words that get extraordinary action

• increase the number of good days when you achieve lots;
  eliminate the bad days when things go from bad to worse,
  productivity is low and you feel unsatisfied
  
  
• learn how to avoid being wound-up and ‘frazzled’;learn to avoid carrying the burden of work with you all the time
  
  
• learn how to change unempowering moods
  
  
• learn 10 leading edge tools to build powerful self-efficacy each day

• learn lessons from your behaviour in a crisis - when we’re all in the same boat, it’s all hands to the pump, and we collaborate with others in an extraordinary fashion…because we have to. A special bond is formed
  
  
• learn 5 tools to build this bond without the crisis
  
  
• learn to develop do-able, challenging "take the hill" projects that take 30-40 days, and get people excited