Switch Thinking Blog
Posts to help you switch your thinking
Create amazing, new ideas, opportunities & experiences.
The Switch Thinking Card Pack
I am very excited to announce that we have developed the first edition of the Switch Thinking Card Pack. It's a fun, easy and playful way to stimulate your switch thinking muscle. The pack consists of the 6...
The Switch Thinking Principles
Switch Thinking is a tool kit that enables you to think differently - on demand. The tool kit consists of a canvas, 6 switches and a series of prompts. These are the structure of switch thinking. But as...
What people are saying about Switch Thinking
I have been running a series of 1 day Switch Thinking courses at the Australian Institute of Management over the past few months. At the end of the course I ask for some written feedback from participants....
Switch Thinking – A 3 Month Review
Yes it's been 3 months since I officially launched the new Switch Thinking website. In that time I have formed a partnership with the Australian Institute of Management and developed a 1 day course which is...
Why Switch Thinking is the key to creativity in your group or team
Q. Does your team need to be more creative and innovative? If the answer is yes, it begs the question how to achieve this? You can rely on infrequent brainstorming sessions or perhaps a random idea from...
Are switch thinking conversations the third way?
There are two types of conversations in innovative teams and organisations. The first are formal conversations in ideation, brainstorming, hackathons, coaching or leadership feedback sessions or meetings....
How to build your switch thinking muscle
We tend to only think about building our physical muscles. But what about our cognitive muscles? What if we think about thinking as a muscle? A muscle (like any other muscle) you can exercise and it can get...
The easy to use Switch Thinking Canvas
Switch Thinking is the name of the overall concept. As the name suggests it means a proactive, semi-structured way of switching your thinking that can be used by any individual, group or team, anytime, for...
When you hit the wall try Switch Thinking
Sometimes you get stuck. You hit the wall. And you start procrastinating. When this happens, what do you do? Here are 4 strategies: 1. You can think harder and longer. Whilst this sounds like a good idea in...
Switch Thinking – it’s easier than you think
Changing your thinking is hard. We build up patterns based on previous experiences and over time they become a thinking habit. These habits are automatic and form a default way of thinking. These default ways...
Switch Thinking – a new way to think together
All work today and in the future will be done (it seems) in groups and teams. As such, new collaborative tools such as Zoom, Slack and Microsoft Teams have been developed and continue to add new features....
Switch Thinking Prompts
Switch Thinking is the ability (as the name implies) to switch from your usual or default way of thinking to a different way. To help you make this leap to a different way of thinking there are are 6...
“I used to like Edward de Bono tips for generating new ideas, however your 6 Switches framework is more accessible, structured and achievable.”
Alexis Haywood, Principal Consultant