Everything is a mixed bag in life!
Nothing can ever be ‘all good’ or ‘all bad’.
Over the past 40 years of teaching higher order critical thinking skills we have seen that one of the most useful SOT thinking algorithms is the GBB.
When you do a GBB you deliberately judge the Good, the Bad and then you go even further to discern what could be Better.
G = GOOD. The good things about an idea why you like it.
B = BAD. The bad things about an idea why you don’t like it.
B = BETTER. What could be much better about an idea.
Everyone agrees that we should all be more broad-minded, more tolerant, more thoughtful, considerate, and more creative. Why don’t people THINK? How often have you heard that question?
It is easy to say to someone, “Why don’t you be more broad-minded?” But it is not so easy to actually do it. This is because it is impossible to focus attention on general attitudes like the ones mentioned above. They sound great as slogans and battle cries but have proved to be of little value as operating tools which can actually be practised and used.
However, a GBB is specific. It is possible to ask someone to “Do a GBB on this.” The thought-leader then takes pride in the skill of being able to deliberately see the Good, Bad and Better points in the situation.
DO A GBB!
Instead of just saying that you like an idea, or you don’t like it, you can use a GBB.
When you use a GBB, you give the good points, the bad points, and also the points which are neither good nor bad but are much better.
You can use a GBB as a way of managing ideas, suggestions, and proposals.
You can ask someone else to do a GBB, or you can be asked to do one yourself.
DFQ #19:
Do a GBB!Tomorrow is the last lesson in this 30-day leadership pipeline so today is a chance to reflect on your journey so far. Do a GBB on this month’s training!
• List 3 GOOD things.
• List 3 BAD things.
• List 3 things that could be BETTER.Post your GBB below:
Good.
Defines your strengths & Weaker areas
Invites you to question what you are doing.
Gives you skills to lead in a very efficent simple manner free of charge or obligation, all lessons conducted in your own space on the internet over 30 days.
Bad.
Not as intensive as it could be.
Little feedback.
Impersonnel internet course.
Better.
If conducted face to face.
With more inspirational stories.
If longer with more content.
Good
1 improve my thinking skills
2 able to give and take orders
3 self awareness
Bad
1 unable to go beyond my ego
2 not challenging
3 no measurements
Better
1 ways to assess whether the students are progressing or not
2 must be introduced in schools
3 more exercises
3 GOOD things
a. The DFQs are helpful for further thinking
b. The Pipeline section is helpful as an “icebreaker”
c. The tools are dynamic GBB, PTO
3 BAD things
a. No tool to see all one’s responses to DFQs in a single location
b. The five days a week did not follow back to back
c.
3 things that could be BETTER.
a. Provide single location a trainee could access all responses to DFQs
1. Many people need our product due to ill health
2. Our product cures most diseases thought incurable.
3. We have the ability to manufacture and market our products.
1. Most ill people cannot reason well to know they can be healed.
2. People often have a “relationship” and identify with their disease not truly wanting to be healed.
3. Many ill people cannot afford to pay for any treatments, indigent. Normal insurance et al will not assist paying either.
1.We have a large market of customers
2. After trying our products almost all feel so much better they will desire more health.
3. Health is the only true wealth and when they see advantages people will purchase.
3 good things …
1. Easy, regular, engaging lessons
2. The class was an example of a pipeline and also taught the pipeline
3. Reinforced cvs2bvs, sdnt, prr …
3 bad things …
1. No feedback
2. Not challenging enough
3. Only focussed on strengths … yet weaknesses can become strengths with prr
3 better things …
1. Include critically reflective feedback on areas of key skill and thinking development
2. Periodic ‘self-assessment’ tasks to check own learning and insight development
3. Help people identify their ‘why’ so that they aren’t doing all this out of context or just for the sake of it.
3 Good things: Focus on Strengths, PTO, thinking styles
3 Bad things: The course seemed too short, a few of the DFQs were not as challenging as the others, and not quite enough training around 6 cap principles
3 Better things: a way to interact with participants rather than just read their comments, expanded section on 6 cap principles, some documentation or recommendations for teaching this to others
3 good things
– gaining thinking as a skill and using it in all aspects of my life (cvs to bvs )
-being more aware ( PRR)
-understanding the leadership skill ( striving for virtuosity , being committed )
3 bad things
-not able to apply thinking all the time the sub-conscious response takes over
-doing some lessons together not giving gap for lessons to sink in
-inability to use all the tools due to lack of readiness , acceptance of others
3 things that could be better
-the lessons need to be revised periodically for achieving virtuosity
-if more people in the vicinity i.e. at work and family were doing this course simultaneously it will be easier to practice and improve quality of life X10.
– how do I test the level of virtuosity achieved ? how do I measure if I have indeed become a thought leader?
3good things
1. Profound, rich,practical ideas.
2. Convenient
3.challenging ideas.
3 bad things:
1.would like to see more individual ideas ( compared to large business concepts).
2.perhaps more practice time before moving on to the new concepts.
3.some how i missed the “peel the orange” concept.
3 better things:
1.perhaps a few more repititions of each concept for practice.
2.more illustrations.examples music etc. Might be fun.
3.ways to apply and use the material in daily mundane activities. It is all excellent material thank you very much.
2.convenient and easy to access.
The Good
Interesting, encourages you to expanding your everyday thinking processes.
Tools and Ideas on how to use them.
Interesting material to introduce students to.
The Bad
Not enough time to make the material habitual
Better
More interplay between these ideas
Take all of this course, add it to English Thinking 123, and make course material for High School Students.
Finish my notebook on all the material for future reference/inspriation
I’ll have to PTO with cvs2bvs, GBB, PMI, etc… about this.
3 GOOD things
– benefit from insights and wisdom of a great thinker, which hopefully reduces the time it wild how taken me to become a better thinker
– small, easy, regular and engaging tasks, which caused me to purposley look for the lessons daily
– the class itself taught and was its own example of a pipeline.
3 BAD things
– completely self directed with no feedback. Great as a PTO, but zero feedback wasn’t great.
– wasn’t challenging enough
– sometimes our weaknesses can become our strengths through PRR … So the focus on strengths alone made the experience incomplete
3 things that could be BETTER.- List 3 GOOD things.
– List 3 BAD things.
– List 3 things that could be BETTER.
– helping people understand their ‘why’. When they understand this there is a much more compelling reason for them to acquire leadership thinking.
– a way to measure positive outcomes from leadership thinking in our own lives, so that we know that we’re doing it well and can attribute our success to. The skills we’ve learned obout b
– collaboration and implementation of these leadership skills on a specific problem / solution.