Alan Weiss – Framed (Critical Thinking Skills for Consulting)

Million Dollar Consultants require critical thinking skills. What are critical thinking skills? I believe they are finite, learnable, and must be integrated no less than a great athlete’s “natural” swing, and one of the most underestimated, misunderstood, and underutilized is what I call “Framing.”

In an honest-to-goodness case of responding to popular demand, a dozen people in my inner circle requested I devote a full day to the subject, in the wake of two very popular CDs I’ve recorded over the years.

This is the first (and probably last time in the US) occasion for such a program.

What You’ll Learn In Framed (Critical Thinking Skills for Consulting)?

• How to quickly determine whether you are facing an opportunity, problem, decision, or plan.
• How to quickly summarize and paraphrase a someone else’s narrative and convert and redirect it to meet your own objectives.
• How to increase your discretionary time and reduce labor intensity by a factor of 50% through rapid diagnosis of situations.
• How to move from cognitive insight to behavioral intervention rapidly and seamlessly.
• How to use “instant examples” and stories to capture attention and interest.
• How to organize the worst, most disorganized, embarrassing space you own—your thinking process.
• How to create and apply wisdom without losing it in knowledge (which itself can be lost in information).
• How to immediately set priority, ranging from diving in to running away.

About Alan Weiss

Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker, and author and mean it.

His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times Corporation, Toyota, and over 500 other leading organizations.

He has served on the boards of directors of the Trinity Repertory Company, a Tony-Award-winning New England regional theater, Festival Ballet, chaired the Newport International Film Festival, and been president of the board of directors of Festival Ballet Providence.