About this Presentation
The TP are a powerful set of methods for improving your critical thinking skills. The tool set consists of generic processes for addressing what to change, what to change to and how to cause the change. This webinar provides an overview of each of the TP tools: the evaporating cloud, current reality tree, future reality tree, negative branch reservations, prerequisite tree, transition tree, strategy and tactic trees, the plus and minus-minus buy-in processes, and the four viewpoints of change.
What Will You Learn
To help you get the most value from this session, we’ve highlighted a few key points. These takeaways capture the main ideas and practical insights from the presentation, making it easier for you to review, reflect, and apply what you’ve learned.
Most problems aren’t what they appear to be. The session teases how Thinking Processes expose the hidden cause-and-effect chains behind recurring frustrations — revealing leverage points most teams never see.
Conflicts don’t require compromise. You’ll see how structured Cloud logic uncovers assumptions that make “either/or” dilemmas dissolve into breakthrough options.
Symptoms are seductive — but misleading. The presentation hints at how mapping Undesirable Effects into a Current Reality Tree changes the conversation from blame to system logic.
Real alignment doesn’t come from persuasion — it comes from clarity. By making thinking visible, teams move from opinion battles to shared understanding, accelerating change without force.
Instructor(s)
Dr. Lisa Anne Ferguson
Dr. Lisa Ferguson's goal in life is to illuminate the way to utopia for individuals, organizations, and the rest of society. Our strategies and tactics are based on using the Theory of Constraints (TOC), combined with other best practices to dramatically improve strategic planning and execution, retail, education, healthcare and the health/happiness/success of individuals with a holistic approach. TOC was founded by Dr. Eli Goldratt to achieve his goal in life of teaching the world to think. For a decade, Dr. Ferguson was a full-time professor of operations management before resigning to teach for The Goldratt Group full-time training consultants (both TOC experts and Supply Chain Logistics implementers). Next, Dr. Lisa Ferguson spent a year (2007 – 2008) working as the apprentice to best-selling author and business guru, Eliyahu M. Goldratt as he trained her to become an even more successful writer and speaker, while further developing her TOC expertise. Her service on the TOCICO Board of Directors in an elected, unpaid position is from 2008 – 2011 and 2020 – 2021. Professor Ferguson is the author of the chapter on Strategy and Tactic Trees in The Theory of Constraints Handbook. Dr. Ferguson began teaching online classes for Illuminutopia in 2010. She is a published author (as well as an editor) and consultant with experience guiding Fortune 100 companies down through small businesses.