- see business processes with new eyes by understanding how to play the game - organize your management process with thinking tools - define mission, vision, and goals - organize your thinking - motivate your team Category 1: The Executive's View: Strategic Alignment & Game Flow The Corporate Menu: Identifying Your "Game Pieces" (Executives, Managers, Analysts, etc.) and their core functions. The RACI Matrix Workshop: A practical guide to finding the weakest link, clarifying roles, and ensuring 100% accountability. The Endeavor Cycle: Mastering the 6-Step Loop of "Think Well" and "Do Great" to build an upward spiral of continuous improvement. Force Field Analysis: A hands-on workshop for identifying and overcoming the "Restraining Forces" that are holding your projects back. Category 2: The Manager's Toolkit: Building the "Game Structure" The Brainstorm & Choose Modules: A practical system for leading a team through innovation, idea generation, and structured decision-making. The Objectives Module (Making the Scoreboard): How to translate a high-level vision into a concrete, delegable plan with clear resources, skills, and steps. The Touch Base Module & Rabbit Race (RR) Goal Tracker: A complete system for updating the "Score Board," managing daily progress, and unblocking your team. Category 3: Frontline Execution: Mastering "Game Performance" State Drive & Fogg's Motivation Model: A manager's guide to using "Facilitation Triggers" and "Sparks" to move team members from "Laidback" to "Diligent." The Hook Model: How to use triggers, variable rewards, and investment to build positive, repeatable habits in your team and your customers. State Styles & The Process Value Chain: A 6-step framework for analyzing and optimizing any team process, from "Haphazard" to "Effortless." The "Pinpoint A Problem" Framework: A 3x3 diagnostic tool for managing exceptions, addressing skill gaps, and accelerating incremental improvement. Category 4: Foundational Strategies for All Levels Deliberate Practice: A framework for deconstructing any complex skill into trainable "elements" to achieve elite performance. Cube Thinking: The ultimate planning tool for breaking down any large, intimidating project (like "Plan a Trip to Rome") into simple, manageable tasks. Expectation vs. Reality: Using the "State Assumptions" model to resolve conflict, validate data, and make decisions with confidence. From my experience, students succeed with me when they are working in marketing, managing a team, or starting a new business. The lessons I teach are more for creative people looking for some tools to help them organize their thoughts. I've had less success with lawyers and finance people. Generally, these people like structured grammar lessons and they want the teacher to provide all the content for the lesson. In my lessons, I need the student to bring their own thoughts and problems to the lesson so that we can discuss them and find tools to solve them.