“The quality of everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first. The quality of our thinking depends on the way we treat each other while we are thinking”
— Nancy KlineThinking Afresh
Our approach to coaching, training and facilitation is grounded in the Thinking Environment®. Learn more about the ten things humans need to do their best thinking below.
The Components of a Thinking Environment®
SOURCE: Nancy Kline, Time to Think (adapted)
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Listening without interruption and with interest in where the person will go next in their thinking
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Regarding each other as thinking peers, giving equal time to think
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Discarding internal urgency
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Noticing what is good and saying it.
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Giving courage to go to the unexplored edge of thinking by ceasing competition as thinkers
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Welcoming the release of emotion
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Supplying essential facts.
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Committing to freedom from untrue assumptions driving prejudice.
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Producing a physical environment – the room, the listener, your body – that says, ‘You matter’
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Asking the sorts of questions that illuminate new possibilities
“A leader's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organisation's greatest asset.”
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