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 – opening the mind to other processes,helping to communicate to staff better,able to look at ideas better as a team.
bad – catching up after being on holidays
better – looking at problems from more angles, able to look back on activities for refreshers
– List 3 GOOD things.
Encouraging me to actually think rather than react
Reminding me about the important things in life
Some outside the square thoughts
– List 3 BAD things.
emails on public holidays
no feedback
too many abbreviations
– List 3 things that could be BETTER.
my thinking
my reacting
my actions
very motivating,think outside the box,consider other things
how did we survive before,small thinking,not imaginative
applying these lessons to private life,helping others,ongoing training.
Good : Very helpful in get us motivated with the thinking process.
Bad : The only bad point would be we need more refresher.
Better : The delivery of forward thinking has given us a platform that we can now build on.
Good
1. Seeing other peoples responses
2. Breaks up the day and gets you thinking about thinking
3. I feel like I’m making better decisions
Bad
1. Not being in front of the computer every day forces you to cram a few lessons in to catch up on the daily e-mails.
2. Reading other peoples responses can sometimes influence yours
3. Not being able to truly implement the activity before moving onto to the next. It felt like I just answered questions but didn’t consciously implement the daily activities.
Better
1. Have a lesson and get the question. Then have a day or so to go away and implement the activity before giving feedback.
2. Enjoyed the personal back stories relative to the lesson
3. Show other peoples responses after you enter yours.
* analyse thoughts, brain training and provoking.
* Time Frame, more interactive and no weekend questions.
* Longer time frame to complete, spacing of questions.
Good – Easy to follow tasks.
Bad – No feedback on completed tasks.
Better – Feedback on completed tasks or maybe a forum page for participants to discuss the tasks.
Good Things:
greater insight
Look at things in a different light
Thought provoking
Bad things:
Lessons on weekends
Become monotomous
Better:
More video/animated style devliery rather than simply reading every day
Greater discussion
good , better learning more advanced and helpful
Bad more time to answer questions
better , Maybe online Chat
Good-continues to make you think about thinking, some interesting concepts(PTO,PIPELINE),gives us some great tools to deal with scenarios in everyday life
Bad-too frequent, lessons on weekends, lessons sometimes a little shallow.
Better-deeper lessons, more self analysis, more evenly spaced out lessons.