ISA 2012 Automation Week Track: Human Performance Wednesday, 26 September, 1:30-1:00 pm, Room 204A Connie Harryman Applied Concepts Creativity What can LEGO® Mindstorms™ robots teach you and your team about motivation and collaboration? How can exploiting the power of cloud technologies maximize human potential? Does this sound fun? Lars Ringe, founder of RobotLab created a learning thinking system that uses a process of Mastering Creative Problem Solving to create Virtual High Performance Teams. Connie Harryman will share RobotLab’s unique case study with you. Learning by Doing is certainly creative and motivating. Learn about a process where your organization can increase its Return on Investment by increasing your team’s performance.
Logical and analytical thinking has served you well in the past. It is now time to consider a new type of thinking and managing. The world is changing and leadership is now focused on people and processes. A model for connecting and collaborating provides the future skills needed for engineers to succeed. These include imagination, questioning, experimenting, and challenging assumptions.
Creative thinking is the key. The reason collaboration is so important is because it equips your engineers to find new solutions and future opportunities. They can be trained to be become more creative and innovative. A new way of engineering is needed that involves the person and process. Do you think the performance of your teams could be improved? Have your efforts for team members to understand each other led to frustration due to cultural barriers and difficulties with language? It is sometimes difficult to understand a team member’s mindset when you reside locally or in the same country.
Imagine the potential for misunderstanding in a global economy. Complexity increases as your organization continues to penetrate distant foreign markets. Is an ambiguous fast paced environment making your job more challenging? Sometimes it is a stretch for your teams to work seamlessly across great geographic distances and to meet your targets. Innovation is hard work! You will be pleased to hear that it is possible to learn how to collaborate effectively and to understand how to create Virtual High Performance Teams. It is possible to maximize the potential of highly diverse international teams.
Every day you face the challenge of applying emerging technologies and the need to motivate your teams. You are faced with chaos and ambiguity every day. You have a tough job motivating your teams to collaborate. You now have the opportunity to learn how to create transparent communication across different continents with cloud collaboration. Could you learn a better and easier way to motivate and manage your teams with a different kind of leadership to improve their performance? It is time to learn how a thinking system, created by Ringe, created superb collaboration between geographically dispersed teams to build strong global teams.
RobotLab applies Agile Methods and a process of Learning by Doing. Cultural barriers and different mindsets can oftentimes diminish the productivity of your teams and slow down a project. Learn how to enhance communications between workers with different languages. Learn to understand different types of Mindsets and how they communicate together for optimal collaboration. Virtual Creative Problem Solving is a process, and you can use it in your daily work to gain an understanding of your team’s strengths and of an individual’s roles and responsibilities.
Ask yourself, “What is your Return on Innovation?” By Mastering Creative Problem Solving, you reap the benefits of Virtual High Performance Teams. Motivating through virtual collaboration is a game changer for your organization!
