About the Topic:
Understanding how people think is essential in order for companies to
improve leadership, team-building, negotiation skills, communication,
sales, and decision-making. It behooves a company to explore the
decision-making processes of its employees in order to become more
competitive, more productive, and more effective.
Your thinking
style - how you gather and process information, how you use that information
to make and act on decisions, even what kind of information you gravitate
towards - influences your every action. It is the basic "mental model" that
you use to explain the world, yourself, and others. If you understand
thinking styles - your own and others - you can then understand how to make
the most of your interactions. Taking the InQ can determine your thinking
style.
The InQ - the Inquiry Mode
Questionnaire - is a set of statements with forced, multiple-choice
responses designed to determine the subject's mode of thinking. Strong
evidence from both experiential and field research, supported by
factor-analysis studies, points to the existence of five styles
which define most human thinking. The InQ measures the extent to which a
person uses each of these styles, highlighting the strengths and limitations
of each. It measures "thinking," not some aspect of personality, and
describes key behavioral cues related to each. If you understand thinking
styles - your
own and
others' - you can then understand how to make the most of your interactions.
About the Speaker:
Chris Berghoff has been on the
start-up team of several entrepreneurial businesses in the Twin Cities. In
his most recent venture, Chris founded and is President of Control Products
Inc., a company that designs, manufactures and markets electronic control.
Additionally, he was on the team that established Electronic Design and
Manufacturing, a contract manufacturer; and Consumer Electronics, Inc., an
electronic consumer products firm. Prior to his start-up experiences, Chris
gained extensive marketing expertise at General Electric and Honeywell Inc.
where he worked in sales, sales management, marketing, marketing management,
domestic and international marketing. Chris has an MBA in Marketing from
Bellarmine University in Kentucky and has been teaching marketing at the
University of Minnesota and St. Thomas since 1985. He is active in
continuing education and working with senior level managers. His approach to
teaching is tactical, hands-on.
Location:
Dunwoody College of Technology, 818 Dunwoody Blvd, Minneapolis, MN.
Park in the student parking lot across the driveway from the building, not
the visitor spaces immediately next to the building.
From the South:
Follow 35W to I-94, West on I-94 to Lyndale exit, Right
(north) on Lyndale to Dunwoody Boulevard, Left on Dunwoody Boulevard
From the North:
I-94 East/South to Lyndale exit, Right at first stop
light (Dunwoody Boulevard)
From the East:
I-94 to Lyndale exit, Right on Lyndale 1/2 mile, Left on
Dunwoody Boulevard
From the West:
Follow I-394 to Dunwoody Boulevard exit
Cost:
Free for members and non-members. Refreshments will be provided.
Agenda:
6:00-6:30 Welcome, food, EMS business and complete Inquiry
Mode Questionnaire.
6:30-8:30 Presentation
Please note that you should arrive
at 6:00 in order to ensure that you can fill out the questionnaire before
the presentation begins.
Registration:
Please
pre-register on or before Noon on Thursday, February 26, 2004 (so we know how much food to bring) by
using the online registration form at:
http://www.tc-ieee-ems.org/meetingregistration.htm
