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"The reverse logic concepts are worth looking
into. There are some surprises."
Roy Ribelin, Owner
Riber-Tech
"The Federal Women's Committee of the Texas
National Guard wishes to express our appreciation for your enlightening
and educational program on "Reverse Thinking". We all
benefited greatly from your insights and practical methods of resolving
problems in a different way. Comments from attendees were outstanding.
Your dedication to and knowledge of your profession is obvious
by the way you present yourself and your work."
Joyce Cartmell
Texas National Guard
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Creativity & Innovation
"The world is full of answers. We need to ask
the right questions." ---Isaac Newton
- Would fresh, unusual ideas be helpful to your organization?
- Is your organization chained to procedures and policies
that worked in the past but are of no value now?
- Is your marketing and advertising boring, old, and
unfocused? Is it having little motivational impact on current, past,
and future customers?
- Are operations running worse that they were at this
time last year?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, your team is ready
for a perspective tune-up. Creativity and innovation are vital for all
businesses to keep up in an ever-changing marketplace. Creativity can
be defined as "the discovering or making of something that is new".
Innovation is "the implementation of the new".
The purpose of Reverse Logic is to bring new approaches to solving problems
and exploiting opportunities by being resourceful and innovative. Many
organizations rely heavily on the creativity of their staff, becoming
stale and less efficient. Help your employees become more creative with
'thinking outside the box' principles. When their involvement is taken
as a personal challenge, your staff will feel invested in the anticipated
outcome of a project or idea. Originality abounds when there is no stifling
of ideas and a good relationship exists between all team members. Why
not show your staff a new way to think and improve work processes by
using the 'Thinking Outside The Box With Reverse Logic' method?
Innovation Workshop - "Thinking Outside The Box-An
Exercise in Reverse Logic"
Results to expect from this 3-Session Workshop:
- Energized, self confident team members
- New techniques to solving problems in sales, marketing, customer
relations, operations, and relationships
- Know how to create titles and subtitles for articles
- Be encouraged about your mental abilities
- Discover your dominant area of creativity and your best place on
a team
- Learn exercises that strengthen, relax, and rest the brain
- Feel good about yourself and your teammates
- Apply the reverse logic technique to gain a fresh perspective for
dead-end situations
- Dissolve mental barriers that block achievement
Course Content
Session One:
The 4 Forms of Reverse Logic are revealed and practiced. New perspectives
are discovered.
Session Two:
The evolutions of the new perspectives are critiqued. A person's
Innovation Style is determined by using a self-report instrument
to find out their dominant area of creativity. A person establishes
their best spot on the team where they can contribute from their
strength position.
Session 3:
The team is beginning to gel. Creativity is flowing in a no-blame
environment. Reverse logic (restricted association) is integrated
with thought-storming (unrestricted association) to provide a full
range of options for steering the organization to its goals.
For more information about an in-house workshop or retreat for your
organization, call Jim at 325-463-5546.
The Four Forms of Reverse Logic
Opposite Meaning Reverse Logic
The human mind is mandated by predisposition to view problems and
opportunities from a singular perspective. People live in a world
of opposed equalities. Right/left, up/down, sweet/sour, good/evil,
friend/foe, heavy/light, black/white and north/south are examples
of opposites. Reverse Logic provides a pathway that forces perspective
from a different or opposite viewpoint. When solving problems, we
tend to look for solutions from only one half of the opposed equality
pair. In its simplest form, Reverse Logic adds additional perspectives
to problems and opportunities by forcing the mind to consider the
opposite dimension.
Switch to the opposite of the meaning of a declarative statement
stated as a challenge or opportunity. For example: Our company needs
to decrease shipping overhead (perceived need). The opposite or reverse
is to look at the problem this way: We need to increase shipping
overhead. (In other words, how could we increase the overhead to
reduce it?) Your mind will work with whatever command you give it.
To gain greater perspective and more choices, create solutions from
the opposite angle.
Phrase Reverse Logic
Brainstorming is the most widely used method to solve problems.
It utilizes the synergy of a group—providing connections, insights,
and experiences applied to a defined problem. New ideas always emerge
from a brainstorming session.
In traditional problem solving - ideas are generated in a linear
fashion. Ideas from past experiences applied to a current situation.
Most of the solutions move along a theme of improvement from a fixed
experience based focus. Reverse Logic will provide new options that
originate from a new point of view (random discovery).
When using the phrase reverse logic method, each word in the phrase
is reversed in meaning. This puts a whole different meaning on the
phase and creates new ideas and perspectives. In the example—Our
company needs to decrease shipping overhead, each word would be reversed
and the new ideas recorded. The first reversal would be—Your company
needs to decrease shipping. Each word reversed creates a whole new
phrase with a different intent revealing new meaning and ideas.
Anti-Strategies
Work on creating problems instead of trying to solve problems.
Make a long list of a defined subject for making things worse. For
example: Twenty-five ways to increase overhead and ruin the company.
The list will contain items (problems) that are already in existence
in the enterprise or organization. After the list is generated, have
others identify the challenges that are in force now. The value of
anti-strategies is that it identifies employee's perceptions of what
is wrong.
Another Person's Perspective
The opposite of looking at a problem from your perspective is to
look at it from the prospective of others. To do this, you must really
get to know one or two people very well so you have a good idea how
they think.
It has been said that reading 3-5 books about a specific person
will make you an expert regarding their thinking patterns. When we
need help from that person, all we do is ask ourselves "What
would he/she do in this situation?" Let's say you have read
three books about Abe Lincoln. You have a challenge concerning dealing
with a chronically late employee. You would ask yourself "What
would Abe Lincoln do in this situation?" Wait, be patient, and
a thought will come forward. Sometimes it will give you insight into
the situation.
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