How you apply your thinking can make a real difference.  

Win by Thinking!

Understanding your own thinking preferences and how to apply this knowledge will make a difference in managing relationships and activities.

Effective Intelligence reveals the 'operating system of your mind'. Understanding this 'operating system' can dramatically improve the application of your mind to all tasks and situations. Thinking is the core competence of everyone, at all levels, in all functions and activities. Improving your thinking is improving the most valuable skill you have. Effective Intelligence can help you do just that.

Effective Intelligence and Rhodes’ Thinking-Intentions Profile provides a:
  • A means to identify the thinking requirements of any job or task.
  • A way to raise awareness and understand your own thinking preferences.
  • Processes that match your thinking to the thinking required by a task or action.
  • Systems for raising the quality of thinking when success depends on it.
  • A means of learning new thinking skills.
  • Methods to understand others and improve relationships between individuals and teams.
Quality thinking matters as much as quality processes do, at every level of the organisation. According to the Research Institute of America, ineffective thinking is at the root of 94% of what goes wrong in the workplace. Quality thinking is at the root of consistent quality results.

Background to Effective Intelligence

The roots of Effective Intelligence are in business; the original research was carried out with a global electronics company more than 25 years ago. Since then more than 100,000 managers and executives have experienced Effective Intelligence through consulting, workshops, seminars and conferences. FTSE 100, Fortune 500 organisations, Public and Voluntary sector organisations together with many smaller firms are using Effective Intelligence on a continuous basis.

Driving Force of Thinking

People will usually have a preferred style of thinking, their natural thinking style; they do not use only one style exclusively.
The Rhodes' Thinking-Intentions Profile or TIP, is an inventory of questions that shows an individual's thinking preferences. Rhodes' TIP is used as the starting point to generate awareness and understanding of an individual's preferred thinking styles, i.e. how one likes to approach a task or situation. It is these underlying thinking preferences that drive behavior , action and therefore results.

What SHOULD BE, what IS or WAS or what MIGHT BE?
Is it INTERPRETATION, FACT or IDEA?
Is it an OPINION, STATEMENT or SUGGESTION?

Understanding the difference is key to being effective!

Clients say Effective Intelligence…

  • Develops a greater understanding of why staff work in different ways and can be used to get the best out of everyone.
  • Is a massively underused aspect of communication and learning.
  • Enables thinking skills, to do more of stop and think, rather than launching into a task or decision without thinking first.

    • What type of thinking would enable the most effective outcome when you need to design a presentation, make a critical decision, develop new ideas, compare results or analyse accounts?
    What is the most appropriate thinking for the task you face?

  • Habits control much of our behavior. Stop and Think!

For more information please email: EI@WinningByThinking.co.uk
or visit: www.EffectiveIntelligence.com