What’s Wrong with (My, Your, or Their) Thinking? 
Thomas E. Ollerman, Ph.D. 

Dr. Ollerman is President of INNOVA, Inc., an international consulting firm specializing in discovering and maintaining creative thinkers within corporations.  As a licensed psychologist, he has learned to apply dysfunctional family communications networks within major corporations.  His research has shown that most dysfunctional behavior demonstrated in the family is carried over to the business world in the form of unresolved adolescent problems and employees use companies to “act out” these issues.

His background includes expertise gained in the areas of global executive development at IBM, participative leadership and team building at Motorola, Inc., statistical research for ITT Courier, Hartford Insurance Company and Dell Computer Corporation. He has also done executive leadership development for Amdahl Computers, Inc., United Technologies, Rohm and Haas, Inc., China Lake Naval Weapons Center, Point Magu Naval Weapons Center, US Naval Air Command, Lockheed Federal Systems, Power Company of Southern Scotland, Logovan Petroleum of Venezuela, Pepsico of Latin America and assistant director of the “Therapeutic Community” in Scotland.

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION:

Learning Objectives:
· Clarify and understand why others don’t “think” like you.
·  Increase and improve your “powers of persuasion” within an organization.
·  Assess the “thinking preference” of yourself and others.
· Reassess your “leadership style” to match your “followership” preferences.

What’s in this for me?

If you think others process information like you do, you will be wrong 75% of the time.  This may well be the main reason for you to attend this seminar.  Quality leadership depends on quality followership.  If others do not think like you and you can’t persuade or influence them to do so, they would be insane to follow your lead – and chances are they won’t.

The first challenge of leadership is to find out the “thinking preferences” of others (the adolescents) you wish to lead.  This understanding can be learned and implemented to increase the “power of your leadership”.  Without this knowledge, you run the risk of having the support of only 25% of your followers.