Online Workshop:
Leveraging your Thinking Style – are you a Steve Jobs or Tim Cook?

• Do you struggle to get your ideas across to your team or leader?
• Do you find yourself getting stressed in certain situations at work or home?
• While solving problems, do you get too many outlandish ideas, which have no takers?

KAI Foundation in association with BMGI invites you to join our workshop on Leveraging your thinking style – are you a Steve Jobs or Tim Cook?

The workshop will help you unlock your problem solving and innovation potential and enable you to optimally leverage your thinking style! The insights will assist you to be even more successful even in scenarios where you work with people different from you. As an added benefit, this helps improve mental wellbeing and can reduce stress levels.

You now have the opportunity to understand your thinking style and get your KAI score!

Whenever we have to do something – like organise our space, or solve complex problems, there is a preferred way of going about doing things – we might jump into action mode and want to experiment or try out new ideas; or, we may focus on methodology, go step by step, and be happy with taking a few solid ideas to conclusion. Some people like rules and routines to follow, others like to be more free-spirited, vary routines, and prefer to work without too many constraints.

This is our problem solving / thinking style.

However, the majority of us like being in a balance somewhere between “highly organised & structured” and “being totally fluid and boundary-free” – where that balance lies for you, is your natural innate inherent preference. This preference is measured by Kirton’s Adaption Innovation Inventory (KAI).

KAI is the accurate measure of problem-solving or thinking style. It is backed up by robust, thorough research plus extensive application around the world, by many individuals, over many years. To understand more about KAI, its uses and benefits, see our case studies
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As a participant you will explore an aspect of your own innate personality – how you like to solve problems. All participants will get to complete the KAI in advance of the workshop. Results will be shared with you confidentially.

Learn & understand

• Your preference at home, at work or at play
• Innovation or Adaption or somewhere in the middle – which is best?
• Behaviour, preference, and stress
• Attitude and use of structure is it enabling or disabling?

Workshop Agenda

• Overview of KAI
  1. How much structure do you like?
  2. Everyone on a spectrum – no ‘best’ place
  3. Style is not related to level, status, experience, motive etc

• Problem-Solving Style explained
  1. Style is made up of – idea generation, efficiency & rule conformity
  2. All styles are equal (it depends on the circumstances)
  3. Your preference doesn’t change
  4. Your preference isn’t your actual behaviour.
  5. Effect on wellbeing

• Group activity – ideation in KAI homogeneous teams
• Application – example 1/case study (specific to audience and BMGI)
• Group activity – ideation in KAI heterogeneous teams
• Application – example 1/case study (specific to audience and BMGI)