Short Bio of Speaker

Eric Frangenheim has taught in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), South Africa and Queensland. He has held the positions of HOD and Deputy Principal (South Africa) and Education Adviser for G&T in Central Queensland (1989-1992). He was the co-coordinator for Gifted and Talented students at an independent school in Brisbane from 1993-5 before creating his own educational consultancy in December 1995.

He is director of Rodin Education Consultancy (www.rodineducation.com.au) which concentrates on the promotion of the ‘Thinking Classroom’ for schools in Australia and in New Zealand.

Eric is the author of “Reflections on Classroom Thinking Strategies”, now in its 8th edition, “The Reconciliation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and co-creator of the Innovative Teachers’ Companion, a teacher’s diary for primary and secondary schools containing hundreds of practical ideas for the classroom. (www.itcpublications.com.au). He and Tony Ryan created the Xpata Lesson Planner, an on-line lesson planning tool incorporating many of the ideas they both promoted in teaching and learning. This tool won the Asia Pacific ICT Award for Education in Kuala Lumpur in 2002.

Eric spends a great deal of time working in schools in Australia and New Zealand promoting the use of thinking tools in the daily classroom. He has presented in both these countries on a regular basis. He also presents workshops on creating thinking environments in the non-school sector, usually on behalf on Laurie Kelly’s Mindworks organization.

Topics

TOPIC: Thinking Skills for better engagement of peoples’ minds

Creating the Thinking Environment

Target Audience: Anyone working with people in training, sales, meetings, workshops. Great skills for presenters

Level of Sophistication: General/Basic/Intermediate/Advanced. General

Duration of Talk (Excluding Breaks) 9am-4.30pm

List of connected topics: Creative and Critical thinking. Cooperative thinking tools. Better involvement of participants at meetings

Synopsis of Presentation:

"CREATING THE THINKING ENVIRONMENT"
A highly practical and effective workshop for Managers,
Trainers, Facilitators, Consultants and Business Owners

4 December 2006

with Eric Frangenheim, Director of Rodin Educational Consultancy

Managers, facilitators, meeting conveners, trainers, business owners and consultants: would you like to be able to call on at least 12 alternatives to brainstorming?
After this program, you'll be able to pull out techniques whenever you need to get your group to come up with new ideas and ways of thinking! We guarantee you at least 12 new thinking strategies.
Attend this workshop and you'll learn how to:
- involve everyone in the discussion
- give the introverts a go
- excite the team about the possibilities
- make staff and other meetings more effective
- save everyone's time and patience
- improve co-operation among staff members
- discover techniques to ensure each person will be heard (not just the vocal few)
- improve the level of discussion, debate and decision-making
- how to promote the conditions for objectivity and harness the energy that can arise from conflicting viewpoints
- get groups to focus on possibility thinking rather than negative blocks
- foster the "thinking" mind-set
- make work and everyday situations become so much easier.
- create "higher-order" thinking
- produce better results, products, effects and conclusions.

Who Should Attend :
General public, managers, trainers, consultants, facilitators, coaches, educators,

How you will benefit:
Please see information in Synopsis above as these mainly explain the skills/benefits to be gained

Classification:
Business, Training, Personal