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• Problem Solving Is Tricky Business - Crack your toughest problems by unmasking your brain's hidden illusions

  • When
    December 09, 2025
  •  
    11:15 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Mane on Main - 201 E Main St #1500 Lexington, KY 40507
  • Registered
    34 registrants

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  Speaker: Steve Haffner
  
  Steve is a professional speaker and mind performance strategist. He had a 30 year career as a systems developer, business analyst and vice-president. In 2011 he launched his own business as a speaker and corporate magician. His programs combine his expertise in subconscious illusions with research from behavioral science and psychology to help audiences unmask their hidden shortcuts, impulses and biases to elevate their performance in problem solving and decision making.
  

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  Description: 

  Problem Solving Is Tricky Business - Crack your toughest problems by unmasking your brain's hidden illusions.

  Effective problem solving is an essential ingredient for success. Unfortunately, we often take an unstructured approach to solving problems—primarily relying on our own intuition and experience to find solutions. That method is, at best, hit or miss.
  
  As a former professional magician, Steve learned to disrupt the audience’s problem-solving mechanisms to prevent them from discovering the solutions to his tricks. He discovered how to engage the brain’s subconscious weaknesses and shortcuts to create illusions and teaches audiences how to avoid those obstacles that can thwart problem solving in our work.
  
  In this program fun and entertaining program, audience members become better problem solvers by learning the foundational steps of effective problem solving and the questions they need to ask at each step.

  Learning Objectives: 

  - Ask the questions that are essential for success at each step of the problem-solving process
  - Use the “Climb Up/Look Down” method to identify core and associated problems
  - Examine and adjust their current approach to gathering and assessing information
  - Apply a more systematic approach to their problem-solving process

  *Approved for one (1.0) PDCs with SHRM and HRCI.

  Schedule of Events:
  

  11:15 am - 11:45 am: Registration, Networking, & Lunch
  11:45 am - 12:00 pm: Business Meeting Update
  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Presentation
  
  Registration Deadline: Due to venue catering requirements, registration for in-person attendance closes 7 days prior to the event date. Virtual participation registration closes the day before the event.

  Location: Mane on Main, 201 E Main St #1500, Lexington, KY 40507 (Validated parking is reserved in the Chase Tower Parking Garage) Mane on Main Parking Map. Details for virtual attendance will be sent to all attendees prior to the meeting, up to 24 hours in advance. 

  This month's meeting is sponsored by:

  If you wish to sponsor future events, please contact Caroline at publicrelations@bgshrm.org for a 2025 Sponsorship Packet.
  

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  BGSHRM strives to provide quality events that are educational in content and rich in networking opportunities. We place emphasis on the humans in Human Resources and value the shared experience of our peers and comrades who are working to create safe and productive environments for their employees. We have designed chapter meeting fees to be as low as possible. 

  Because of rising costs in our community, your regular member registration fee covers the program related expenses and is not a fundraiser for the chapter.  As such, all payments for registration to BGSHRM events are non-refundable. View full Transfer and Refund Policy. 

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