“Participating in Superior Thinkers Toolbox training with a highly motivated and committed cohort was so enjoyable and beneficial. I thoroughly loved the delivery of the course, the online training and group work established the foundations which were built on in the two hour face to face sessions, these conversations were effortless, two hours of catching up went too quickly and I was always surprised when I reflected and realised how much of the content had been covered via a friendly engaging chat. The training will be applied to both work and life.”
Sophie Gaudry. Operational Risk Professional
Sophie Gaudry. Operational Risk Professional
Expand your teams mental models, calibrate their thinking, enhance their problem solving abilities and fine tune their actions to produce outstanding results that transform the way they live and work.
The Superior Thinker’s Toolbox is a set of maps, models and frameworks that your team can adapt to their personal styles and deploy immediately. It's a 16-week advanced program dedicated to increasing self awareness, improving problem solving and expanding decision-making capabilities within teams in a collaborative and blended way.
CORE OUTCOMES
- Elevated Thinking and Awareness
- Positive Workplace Relationships
- Healthy Boundary Setting
- Improved Problem Solving
- Elevated Collaboration
- Priorities and Objectives Met
- Improved results and individual contribution
- Increased ownership and responsibility from individual contributors
Take this extraordinary journey with your peers and create a knowledge base of sustainable practices that will unlock the teams potential.
This program is for teams who:
- Are looking to improve prioritisation and collaboration.
- Want to better define complex problems and solve them confidently and efficiently.
- Want to develop their analytical thinking and innovation skills.
- Are ready to improve their reasoning, problem-solving and ideation skills.
- Are looking for tools and frameworks to enhance their combined expertise.
- Want to bring out the best in each other.
- Want well researched approaches that have been pioneered at well respected organisations such as Harvard, Stanford, The University of Sydney and the US Naval College.
- Want greater self-awareness and clarity of purpose.
- Are ready to confront conflict rather than shy away from it.
“The program provided me with a bag full of tools in the development of my work and personal life”
Brian Chin Regulatory Data and Platform Manager
CURRICULUM
The Superior Thinker's Toolbox is based on the principle that “Learning is not Fast Food”. Teams are presented with powerful concepts, principles and frameworks that have been continually tested and found to be the most useful tools for group transformation.
We have selected frameworks and models that have been pioneered at Harvard, Stanford, The University of Sydney, the US Naval College and deployed personally by our team in their personal and professional lives.
Each module is based on the principle of "Triple Loop Learning" allowing for deep personal reflection that informs new behaviour. Our group learning environment heightens learning allowing your team raise their mental complexity together.
We have selected frameworks and models that have been pioneered at Harvard, Stanford, The University of Sydney, the US Naval College and deployed personally by our team in their personal and professional lives.
Each module is based on the principle of "Triple Loop Learning" allowing for deep personal reflection that informs new behaviour. Our group learning environment heightens learning allowing your team raise their mental complexity together.
Program Launch
The kick-off session is is an opportunity to meet your cohort and ensure you have everything you need to gain the most out of your time together.
TOPICS COVERED
TOPICS COVERED
- Best practice knowledge retention and learning methods.
- Learning Loops
- Program structure and schedule.
- Individual Intentions and Collective Commitments.
Module 1 - Mind Matters
Gain an understanding of the importance of mental complexity and the critical role of mindset in approaching challenges and achieving results.
MODULE INSIGHTS
Mental complexity over intelligence
Develop mental complexity to make sense of self, others, workplace dynamics and the world. Discover how increased mental complexity allows you to perceive more, expand your thinking processes and take effective action.
Mindset
Use the fixed-growth mindset continuum to recognise opportunities to upgrade thinking to be more proactive, agile, responsive and mentally fit in times of uncertainty.
Map Your Mind
Use your mind for good with a complete framework of the mechanics of your conscious, analytical and subconscious mind to influence better actions and results.
Information vs Action
Discover why knowledge doesn’t always lead to action and how to bridge the knowing doing gap.
MODULE INSIGHTS
Mental complexity over intelligence
Develop mental complexity to make sense of self, others, workplace dynamics and the world. Discover how increased mental complexity allows you to perceive more, expand your thinking processes and take effective action.
Mindset
Use the fixed-growth mindset continuum to recognise opportunities to upgrade thinking to be more proactive, agile, responsive and mentally fit in times of uncertainty.
Map Your Mind
Use your mind for good with a complete framework of the mechanics of your conscious, analytical and subconscious mind to influence better actions and results.
Information vs Action
Discover why knowledge doesn’t always lead to action and how to bridge the knowing doing gap.
Module 2 - Beyond Drama
Shift your thinking from experiencing circumstances as happening to you to happening because of you. Discover how to control unwanted emotional reactions in stressful situations and how to create positive outcomes in work relationships.
MODULE INSIGHTS
The Games We play
Unpack the empowering difference of playing a finite game based on winners and losers and an infinite game built on collaboration and ongoing growth where everyone continually wins.
The Drama Triangle
Understand the 3 key roles that keep people locked in a cycle of drama and conflict and how to switch to roles that empower everyone.
Conflict vs Curiosity
Learn how to use active listening to better understand other perspectives and effectively support and challenge people to move beyond drama and into co-creation
MODULE INSIGHTS
The Games We play
Unpack the empowering difference of playing a finite game based on winners and losers and an infinite game built on collaboration and ongoing growth where everyone continually wins.
The Drama Triangle
Understand the 3 key roles that keep people locked in a cycle of drama and conflict and how to switch to roles that empower everyone.
Conflict vs Curiosity
Learn how to use active listening to better understand other perspectives and effectively support and challenge people to move beyond drama and into co-creation
Module 3 - Yes! No. Yes?
Learn how to say no intelligently to requests for your time and unwanted behavior to protect what's important and increase productivity without damaging your reputation or professional relationships
MODULE INSIGHTS
Release the Pressure
Discover the pressure points that prevent people from setting clear boundaries.
Ineffective ways to say No
Stop saying no in ways that dissolve relationships, creates conflict, ruins a good reputation and diminishes your power.
The Path to Agreement
Learn the art of setting healthy boundaries to stay on purpose, focused and productive while maintaining healthy working relationships.
Productivity on Pause
Discover the top 6 productivity de-railers and how to get back on track.
MODULE INSIGHTS
Release the Pressure
Discover the pressure points that prevent people from setting clear boundaries.
Ineffective ways to say No
Stop saying no in ways that dissolve relationships, creates conflict, ruins a good reputation and diminishes your power.
The Path to Agreement
Learn the art of setting healthy boundaries to stay on purpose, focused and productive while maintaining healthy working relationships.
Productivity on Pause
Discover the top 6 productivity de-railers and how to get back on track.
“A thought provoking and insightful program that guides you in how to get the most out of yourself and your team."
Andrew Dowman Financial Services Professional
Module 4 - Adaptive Problem Solving
Turn your attention to the problem to be solved as you deepen your understanding of the potential barriers to change and collaborate skillfully to erase them.
MODULE INSIGHTS
Balcony Dancefloor
Create an understanding of the bigger picture and view situations and problems from a larger (less personal) perspective. Looking from the balcony enables adaptive leaders to provide language for the situation and facilitate movement toward solutions.
Engaging the factions
Allow disparate views to be heard - those groups of people who are for the change, those who are opposed to the change and those who are just scared of the change; adaptive leaders understand emotional reactions and provide a safe environment where people can explore possibilities.
Cooking the conflict
Deepen the debate among stakeholders. Step in with questions and courageously take risks to go deeper into issues. If sterile discussion takes the place of real dialogue and conflict, then the adaptive leader steps in to deepen the conversation.
MODULE INSIGHTS
Balcony Dancefloor
Create an understanding of the bigger picture and view situations and problems from a larger (less personal) perspective. Looking from the balcony enables adaptive leaders to provide language for the situation and facilitate movement toward solutions.
Engaging the factions
Allow disparate views to be heard - those groups of people who are for the change, those who are opposed to the change and those who are just scared of the change; adaptive leaders understand emotional reactions and provide a safe environment where people can explore possibilities.
Cooking the conflict
Deepen the debate among stakeholders. Step in with questions and courageously take risks to go deeper into issues. If sterile discussion takes the place of real dialogue and conflict, then the adaptive leader steps in to deepen the conversation.
Module 5 - Radical Collaboration
Identify and map the stakeholders associated with the problem to be solved. Then learn the skills and approaches to work collaboratively with stakeholders to increase the quality and efficiency of your approach.
MODULE INSIGHTS
Collaborative intention
Make a personal commitment to mutual success of all parties – by maintaining an authentic, non-defensive presence and curiosity in the work of others.
Self-awareness / empathy
Seek to understand the concerns, intentions, and motivations of others, and have the courage to explore difficult interpersonal issues.
Self-accountability
Take responsibility for your choices. Notice where you act or fail to act, and the intended or unforeseen consequences of your actions. Begin to be more solution focused instead of finding someone or something to blame.
MODULE INSIGHTS
Collaborative intention
Make a personal commitment to mutual success of all parties – by maintaining an authentic, non-defensive presence and curiosity in the work of others.
Self-awareness / empathy
Seek to understand the concerns, intentions, and motivations of others, and have the courage to explore difficult interpersonal issues.
Self-accountability
Take responsibility for your choices. Notice where you act or fail to act, and the intended or unforeseen consequences of your actions. Begin to be more solution focused instead of finding someone or something to blame.
Module 6 - Purposeful Prioritisation
Learn and use an advanced prioritisation scaffold to incorporate collaboration, design-thinking and agile to progress problem solving in a structured fluid, responsive and engaging way.
MODULE INSIGHTS
Data Insights
Build and pitch a range of hypothesis to gain further insight. Organisations often miss this stage and waste valuable resources (like time) on building solutions that will never be implemented.
Progress / Pivot / Pause
Pitch a range of well-founded options to key stakeholders. This visible progress enables invested stakeholders to zoom in on a desired approach, or to allocate additional resources and deadlines as appropriate. Leaders often discover crossover opportunities at this stage.
Development
In this penultimate stage the refined solution is tracked along appropriate time-lines, with pitch-style progress reporting and clear lines of accountability allowing clear optics for ROI and delivery.
MODULE INSIGHTS
Data Insights
Build and pitch a range of hypothesis to gain further insight. Organisations often miss this stage and waste valuable resources (like time) on building solutions that will never be implemented.
Progress / Pivot / Pause
Pitch a range of well-founded options to key stakeholders. This visible progress enables invested stakeholders to zoom in on a desired approach, or to allocate additional resources and deadlines as appropriate. Leaders often discover crossover opportunities at this stage.
Development
In this penultimate stage the refined solution is tracked along appropriate time-lines, with pitch-style progress reporting and clear lines of accountability allowing clear optics for ROI and delivery.
“Superior Thinkers was a great program, providing many tools to navigate work and life.”
Adam Gook - Head of clearing and collateral Management
Delivery
Online Training Portal
Your team access a dedicated and private training portal in the Blue Chip Minds Academy.
They can connect with each other via chat and messaging and have direct access to their facilitator as they progress through the learner led modules. Our programs are hosted on a secure platform that can be accessed by participants from any device via a web browser or participants can download the app to access the material on the go from anywhere. 
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Shared Experience
Learning is a personal experience and is greatly enhanced with peer coaching, that is why we include regular check-in sessions held live or via video conferencing.
This is a place for the team to switch off from the demands of work and come together to deep dive the content, maps, models and frameworks with their facilitator. Questions are answered, insights wins and challenges are shared as the team build lasting bonds and deeper understanding.
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Learner Led
Team members learn at their own pace and at a time that suits them as they engage with the each module which consists of;
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“Georgia and Greg are fantastic facilitators! They are knowledgeable, encouraging and often explored concepts and ideas that many would have brushed over. I loved that they drew out the curious mindset hidden/asleep inside me.”
Loann Nguyen - Head of Institutional Business + Governance
Loann Nguyen - Head of Institutional Business + Governance
Meet The Program Creator's
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GREG COLLIER
Greg is an experienced people leader, business manager, facilitator, coach, MC, narrator and consultant. He has a passion for unleashing the potential of people and cascading that through organizations and communities. Clients have described his facilitation style as inclusive, perceptive, witty and relaxed yet captivating - this allows him to take people on a powerful journey. His unique style gently guides participants toward transformational and practical insights.
Greg’s most recent engagements have centered on organization development, innovation, human-centered design, culture, transformation, virtual teams and agile delivery. Greg has worked throughout Australia and internationally across Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East and North America. He has collaborated across a broad range of industries and organizations including: ASG, Telstra, NAB, CPA Australia, Asialink, Computershare, Innovation 360, Coles, Cenitex, Asahi Beverages, Bank South Pacific, Fiji Development Bank, University of East London, University of Canberra, Torrens University and Monash University. |
FAQs
Q: My team are not all based in the one location, can we all participate together?
A: Yes! The entire program is delivered online making it easy for remote workers and office workers to participate together.
Q: Are there any prerequisites to participate?
A: No, however we usually provide pre-course reading to ensure all participants start from a similar foundation of understanding.
Q: Is this an online course?
A: We have made the course accessible to anyone from anywhere. The course is a mix of self study (online modules) and live online facilitator led group sessions.
A: Yes! The entire program is delivered online making it easy for remote workers and office workers to participate together.
Q: Are there any prerequisites to participate?
A: No, however we usually provide pre-course reading to ensure all participants start from a similar foundation of understanding.
Q: Is this an online course?
A: We have made the course accessible to anyone from anywhere. The course is a mix of self study (online modules) and live online facilitator led group sessions.
