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Mindwerx International is a leader in facilitating teams using Deliberate Creative Thinking
as a enabler for organisational innovation.
Using a disciplined and
creative thinking approach helps ensure the team starts and stays
focussed on an achievable outcome.
Guiding teams through a proven five
stage divergent-convergent thinking process Deliberate Creative Thinking has four broad components:
- Define the outcome being sought - set a clear thinking focus;
- Identify the type of thinking needed to achieve the focus;
- Select the best thinking tools to do the thinking needed; and
- Apply those tools in a deliberate and disciplined way.
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"Thank you for conducting the
workshop, we found it very valuable and would definitely like to use
you again in the future. I told a few friends from outside our company
about the workshop and they also said they would keep you in mind for
up and coming projects."
Jacqui Conder, Marketing Executive
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Professional facilitation brings considerable value to the team process, whether that process supports specifically targeted/skilled project teams, cross-functional strategic teams, or large groups working to ideate new product/service concepts. When facilitated using Deliberate Creative Thinking methods, tools and technologies this advantage is enhanced as teams are able to:
- balance the three key elements of any meeting - Focus, People and Time
- focus on the often multi-layered expectations of the group while ensuring that real results are being achieved
- genuinely explore the current situation in a parallel and collaborative manner
- creatively generate new ideas and make better decisions - faster
Deliberate Creative Thinking allows creativity on demand while maintaining a clear focus on the outcome. Exposure to deliberate thinking methods also encourages participants to see things in a new light and motivates them to think, talk, act and work in new and innovative ways.
Mindwerx facilitations are always tailored to the specific needs of the team, however typically our facilitations make use of methods such as:
- Imagineering - to begin with the end in mind and engineer a path forward
- Focusing creative energy - to ensure the focus has been well articulated
- Radiant Thinking - with Mind Mapping® or MindGeniusTM computer aided thinking
- Parallel Thinking - using thinking frameworks like de Bono's Six Thinking Hats® and collaboration technology such as ZingTM group systems
- Lateral Ideation Tools - to generate new useful ideas that break the thinking pattern
- Idea Harvesting and Design methods - to turn ideas into outcomes
Facilitators: Bill Jarrard and/or Jennifer Goddard, Founders Mindwerx International
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