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The Twin Cities IEEE Engineering Management Society invites you to attend a
presentation:
“How To” Critically Think, A Much Needed Global Concept
By Dr. Dean Russell
Thursday, 23 Aug, 2007 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Hosted by:
ION Corporation
5474 Feltl Road
Minnetonka, MN 55343
Agenda:
6:30 to 7:00 Refreshments, networking
7:00 to 7:45 Main presentation
7:45 to 8:30 Questions and networking.
About the Topic/ Outline:
Critical thinking is not what you think, but how you arrive at conclusions.
It is not results-based, but process-based. It is the process of determining
the facts without prejudice and placing those facts in a “pattern” that you
can understand. It is the ability to think!
The ability to think and recast the thinking in an improved form is the
foundation for critical thinking. It is to know the existence of illogical
fallacies, with a major component being – is the comment true or false. In
this fun-filled session you will learn the skill set most needed for your
future.
You will learn how to listen to your intuition along with skeptical skilled
fact finding follow-through. Questions, not answers, drive critical
thinking. When you quit asking questions, you stop thinking.
The workplace is full of “Information Diseases.” Information Diseases are
defined as an “alteration” through experience of a person’s everyday
information-processing capacities.
The most damaging disease, is a form of mind control is to get you not to
think, and not to feel. This end is accomplished through various means such
as abuse of power, false pretext, punishing dissent, public relations
mentality, and others.
In critical thinking, you must question the information – purpose, sources,
interpretation, assumptions, implications, relevance, accuracy, precision,
consistency, and logic. The most important question is of purpose - asking
why.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Dean Russell is an Organizational Effectiveness Consultant with
Employers Association, Inc. He is also the former Quality Director of a
medical device company with revenues of 350 million annually. He provides
life-changing and challenging seminars; keynote addresses and breakout
sessions! He is also President of Executive Performance and Solutions, Inc.
He is a certified lead auditor for the ISO 9000/13485 Series/1400 Series
with the status of RAB Quality Management System –Auditor, and American
Society for Quality - Certified Quality Auditor. He uses the ISO/Baldrige
quality models as the primary instrument in the installation of Quality and
Environmental Systems. He was certified as a lead auditor from British
Standards Institute through Georgia Institute of Technology and Quality
Systems Development. Dr. Russell is also a certified (APT) Myers-Briggs/DiSC
Behavioral Type Indicator Facilitator/ Administrator, and specializes in
Industrial Organization Psychology and developing Quality Improvement
Services.
He is also a former Minnesota State certified Personal Financial Advisor,
published author of two Science Fiction novels and is producing a new
musical recording of original songs.
Dr. Russell has earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management, a
Bachelor of Arts in Business, a Masters of Arts Degree in Human Resources
Development and a Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration degree
focusing on Quality Systems. He has served as adjunct faculty for four years
at Limestone College, Southern Wesleyan College, and Haywood Community
College instructing courses in Business Administration and Human Resource
Management
Trained and certified by the American College of Medical Practice Management
in practice quality evaluations. He is also trained by Organizational
Dynamics, Inc., in expert facilitation. Dean shares expertise and
certification in the “WE CARE” Customer Service program, Interaction
Associates and Philip Crosby Associates, Inc. at the Executive Management
Quality College on Advanced quality facilitation.
Location:
ION Corporation
5474 Feltl Road
Minnetonka, MN 55343
Directions:
Hwy 62 to Shady Oak Road, go north 1 mile on Shady Oak Road, turn right on
Smetana Road and go about 0.4 miles to the second right, turn right on Feltl
Road and go to the first driveway on the right then an immediate left into
the parking lot. ION Corporation is in the first building on the right
(west).
Note that this is ION's new location - look for the building number, their
new sign may not be installed.
Cost:
Free for EMS members and non-members attending for the first time; $10
otherwise. Refreshments will be provided.
Registration:
Please pre-register before noon on April 24th 2007 by using the online
registration form at:
http://www.tc-ieee-ems.org/meetingregistration.htm
For more information about the meeting call Dave Hendrickson at
(612)709-7675 or email daveh(REMOVE THIS PART)ATcomputerDOTorg
For further information about the Twin Cities IEEE Engineering Management
Society Chapter, see our web site at http://www.tc-ieee-ems.org/
Thanks,
Dave Hendrickson
Chair, IEEE Twin Cities Section
Chair, IEEE TC Engineering Management Society
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