Problem Solving with Chris Whipp. Presentation to The Inspired Group

Chris Whipp

Andy’s Kars – Andy Kent

it is so easy to get complacent and self satisfied........................ till you meet someone like Andy. Then it makes one think that with health and confidence, how much more one could have been achieved with Andy's grit and determination. John A Haresnape

Becoming a stand-up comic – John Torrence

Radically rethinking business – Alan Moore

Linked In Discussion- Difficult Problems

Veterinary surgeon - Horizontal Development

Vertical Development

1998 – Adult & Workplace Learning

2001 – Educational Research

2003 – Masters in Learning Styles/Development of

Clinical Expertise

2004 – Executive & Professional Coaching

2006 – Postgraduate Learning

2008 – Neuroscience of Leadership

What you get when you mix Neuroscience with Adult, Collaborative & Workplace Learning

Process Awareness

Responsibility

Commitment

Action

Results

Niche/Different

Providing a healthy environment for your brain

Working the way your brain works naturally

Training your brain to work in new ways

1.3kg of firm Jelly

100 Billion Neurones

Huge functional Complexity

1/60th of Bodyweight but 25% of Energy Consumption

Risk/Benefit as a governing function

5mm thick layer of cells covering the front of brain

Highly interconnected with rest of brain

Conscious Control

Big Brain/Little Brain

PFC is the stage

3 – 4 Actors onstage at any one time

Director – Executive Control

Interactive Audience; Memories, Emotions, Constructs, Habits of Thinking & Doing & Ways of Thinking

Ex

per

tise

Unconscious Incompetence

Unconscious Competence

Conscious Competence

Conscious

Incompetence

Unconscious Incompetence

Scientific Systems

350 Years 1960’s

Linear Non Linear

Focus on Parts Focus on Relationships

Reversible Irreversible

Predictable Law of unintended Outcome

Monkey Mind

Activity ≠ Productivity

Thought >> Behaviour >> Consequence

Little Brain or Big Brain - 0.5 Seconds

Attention/Inattentional Blindness – 10 Seconds

Multitasking

Limbic Arousal

Amydala Overload

Neuroplasticity

Fight or Flight

Problem Solving

Risk/Benefit

Staff, Stress & Focused Workforce

Lack of Executive Control

Internal Barriers

Fear

Procrastination

Attachment

Competing with Global Companies

Conflicting Beliefs incompatible with Actions

Balance of Working On/In the Business

Time to think

Making Things Happen

Simplicity from Complexity

Learning is a process not an event

An Invitation to play the Infinite Game

Email Support

Debrief

Status

Certainty

Autonomy

Relatedness

Fairness