Common Sense: Reducing Everyday Reality to its Basic Elements

Problem

The question of common sense — the endeavor to specify the way everyday understanding and thinking is formulated and operates — has become one of the more pressing problems of the 21st century. Evidence includes the:

• increased efforts of corporate and political entities to steer the common sense perspectives of clients and constituents to achieve their tactical and strategic objectives;

• disturbances in revenue and profits suffered by corporations when they decouple their operations from the common sense views of their clients and constitutents, and;

• growing resources public and private entities are investing in efforts to replicate common sense in machines.

Response

This 6-hour course deconstructs common sense to its basic cognitive and meaning components and teaches an operational understanding of the phenomena that enables persons to see, seize, and steer human information processes to improve organizational efficacy and optimize system effects. Cognitive-psychological and phenomenological formulations of common sense are presented and situated within a cybernetic (general system) perspective that specifically relates common sense, discerned as an information process, to organization (system) performance. The course includes explanations of basic common sense (heuristic) biases and the relation of common sense to the total human person. Learning is supported by brainstorming sessions, buzz sessions, knowledge checks, reviews, practical exercises, and discussions.

Teaching

The course subscribes to the teaching principles extended upon by the US Army Common Faculty Development - Instructor Course (CFD-IC), the “gold standard” of adult learning. Joaquin Trujillo, PhD, the course's author and instructor, obtained his CFD-IC certification from the US Army in 2018. Course content is based on Dr. Trujillo's published scientific research, the professional experience he garnered during his service as a CIA Operations Officer, and his regular work coaching and mentoring US Miliary and Special Forces in the leadership, team, communicative, and high reliability processes ingredient to successful intelligence and psychological operations during war. Dr. Trujillo holds a PhD in Sociology.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Improved organizational fitness, reliability, adaptability, and productivity.

• Enhanced operational awareness and responsiveness.

• Improved team cohesion and performance.

• Increased meaningfulness through work.

Sigetic is an operations consulting and organizational development firm based in Houston, TX. Further information regarding Sigetic and the CEO/Instructor's professional experience and scientific work can be found at https://sigetic.com.

Contact Sigetic CEO — Joaquin Trujillo, PhD — at [email protected] for additional information.

The exact venue address is provided upon registration. Snacks and refreshments are provided.

Public metered street parking is available. A paid private parking garage is also available. The venue is accessible by public transportation.

Full refunds for course registration MINUS EVENTBRITE SERVICING AND PROCESSING FEES are available for cancellations executed five (5) days prior to the scheduled course date . Cancellations less than five days before the course date are not refundable.

NOTE: The Eventbrite Servicing Fee is 3.7% + 1.79 per ticket and its Payment Processing Fee is 2.9% of the total order. Eventbrite does not refund its servicing and processing fees regardless the day registration is cancelled.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

River Oaks District, River Oaks District, Houston, United States