NOTE--Change in Meeting Location for this meeting!
Bethesda Chevy Chase Services Center (BCCSC)
4805 Edgemoor Lane, 2nd floor, Rooms A and B, Bethesda, MD 
(directions, map, and parking) 

When you listen, you tend to hear what you want to hear, and remember what was important to you. That might not be good, if listening well means getting the sale, finding clarity in a major issue, or understanding the client’s needs. Besides, the speaker might not talk the way you listen . . . your preferences are unique.  Mindmaps provide an easy-to-use approach to listen deeply, understand fully, and record effectively. 

If you already use mindmaps, tune up your skills! Mindmaps can also be used for outlining that book you want to write, solving complex technical problems, gaining team consensus, planning big presentations, and winning contracts. 

This Thinkshop will be interactive, hands on, and fun. You’ll leave with a personal mindmap and ready-to-use skills. 

Speaker: While engineering U.S. Navy ships, then-Commander Olsen led missions demanding urgency and out-of-the-box thinking. His teams developed savings in the billions of dollars and procedures used today throughout the Department of Defense. Bill became a sought-after facilitator for risky programs requiring breakthrough change. 

As a university professor, Bill Olsen launched “Think 101” . . . , and his creative-leadership courses became “the most popular electives in the history of the college.” He now guides facilitating, training, and team building services to unlock the creative power and potential of a group. Bill Olsen is a Certified Professional Facilitator, a unique international distinction in the consulting field, and a founding Board member of the Mid Atlantic Facilitator’s Network.

Olsen Innovations, Inc., is a people-improving, process-consulting small business firm focused on accelerating organizations to achieve their own goals. Olsen Innovations’ services of facilitating, training, and team building cover a broad range from single event offsites and workshops, to group facilitation and multistaged organizational development. Clients have included Federal agencies, all the military services, and Fortune 500 companies as well as local governments, banks, medical research firms, small businesses, colleges, and youth groups. What’s the common element? “People who want different  results . . . right now!”

For more information, go to http://www.OlsenInnovations.com.

Parking: Large indoor garage--free on Saturdays!

Metrorail: Across the street from Bethesda Metrorail Station, on the Red Line.

Free and open to all

Several times a year a smaller group (usually about 8 to 12) goes to Nanny O'Brien's (directly across the street from the library at 3319 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 202-686-9189, open 2 pm Saturday to 2 am Sunday) or another local establishment for continued conversation, networking, and refreshment following the meeting. (Participants pay for their own beverages and food.) 

Join us!