The Explanation Age

Welcome to Explanation Age LLC
Developing Human Capital in the Knowledge-Driven Enterprise – Starting From WHY

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The Goal of Knowledge & Innovation Management

Organizations today understand that they are either becoming Thought Leaders, or they are becoming obsolete.

Continuous Improvement in the knowledge-driven enterprise requires going beyond the old 1-dimensional view of organizational learning (novice-to-expert).

Explanation Age Leadership Methods are based on models of learning that produce Thought Leaders, not just Experts.

Benefits of Explanation Age™ Methods

Strategic Decisions – supports sense-making, not box-checking
Transparency – provides access to thought process and reasons
Collaborative – facilitates collaboration and reduces groupthink
Conflict Resolution – provides shared framework and language
Ethics – requires balancing control with compliance and respect
Innovation – provides proper questioning patterns for ideation
Education – promotes sensemaking and replaces Bloom's Taxonomy
Proficiency – transforms operations from simplicity to elegance

Presentations and Consulting / Workshops

For Business Leaders

Learner-Leadership: Leading through Collaborative Organizational Learning
The Learning "S-Curve": Designing Organizations for Thought Leadership
Powerful Questions: Putting the Framework-Question Theory into Action
Structured Thinking: Careful the Structure You Choose To Think From
Learning Organizations: Moving From Buzzword To Business Methodology
Performance Improvement: Transforming Operations from Simplicity to Elegance
Decision Transparency: Collaborative Decision Making with Transparency

For Education Leaders

Designing Education - Not Instruction: How the Knowledge Economy has outdated ADDIE and Bloom's Taxonomy
Questioning Skills: Why Creativity and Critical Thinking are Not Enough
The Tyranny of the Testers: Why the Models are More Important than the Measurements
Quad-Loop Learning: Why "Double-Loop" Learning Models Don't Add Up

For Technology Leaders

Enough Information: The Information Age is Not Sustainable
Social Tools for WHY: Catching Up to the Tools for Who, What, Where, and When

Story Thinking™

Transforming Organizations for
the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Introduction to Story Thinking (20 min)

Story Thinking Cycle ™

"Storytelling is based on a sensemaking pattern for how we should talk—but Story Thinking is based on this pattern for how we should work."