S14: How Do You Problem Solve and Why Is It Important?
Tuesday, April 28, 2:00pm- 5:00pm
Cost: $10 (Free for members of the Management Division)
Registrants will need to pick up a profiling instrument at the registration desk. It will take 15-20 minutes to complete, and must be returned to the registration desk by the evening of Monday, April 27.
Where: Room 9, Tampa Convention Center
Instructor:
Jack Hipple, Innovation-TRIZ
Overview:
This workshop, sponsored by AIChE Management Division, focuses on an engineering manager's problem solving style. Many engineers and managers are aware of their social style as measured by psychological assessment instruments such as Myers Briggs or DISC. However, these tools do not take into account how a person approaches problem solving. It is thus possible for people to be compatible socially but still be very argumentative when it comes to resolving issues. This, greatly hinders the productivity of problem solving teams.
This workshop will give each participant an opportunity to learn their Kirton KAI™ profile, which measures very accurately how an individual approaches problems and their solution. The Kirton KAI instrument and profile has been used for many years to identify an individual's problem solving approach.
The workshop will review the basics of this instrument and provide real class involvement to illustrate how this strongly imbedded behavior pattern affects problem solving and our relations with people who have different styles of or approaches to problem solving. They will leave with a much better understanding of their own approach to problem solving and how better to utilize diversity in this profile in working with and assembling teams.
Participants will need to pick up a profiling instrument at the registration desk. It will take 15-20 minutes to complete, and must be returned to the registration deskt the evening prior to the workshop.
About the Instructor:
Jack Hipple is Principal in the consulting firm Innovation-TRIZ, based in Tampa, FL. Jack is a chemical engineering graduate from Carnegie Mellon University and spent 26 years with Dow Chemical where he was responsible for New Ventures Discovery Research, designed to mover the corporation away from commodity chemicals, and Corporate Chemical Engineering Research. Since 1993 he has served as Project Manager for the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, New Product Director for Ansell Edmont, and Aerogel technology manager for Cabot. He became Business Development Manager for Ideation International and a certified TRIZ (Inventive Problem Solving) specialist to add to his formal training in other innovation techniques and personnel assessment methodologies such as Myers Briggs and Kirton KAI™. He is one of a few people in the world certified and trained in all of these methodologies. He is the TRIZ trainer for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Society of the Mechanical Engineers, and has done frequent workshops for the World Future Society, the American Creativity Association, and chapters of PDMA, ASTD, AIChE and ASME. He frequently combines KAI™ principles with inventive problem solving workshops.
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