Six Thinking Hats® to Create a Culture of Creativity & Innovation

Objective Parallel Thinking using tools such as de Bono's Six Thinking Hats® is an easy and powerful method that changes the way people think. It promotes the kind of innovative thinking and creative problem-solving that is vital to success in today's changing world. Developed by Dr Edward de Bono, the method is easy to learn and use - yet the Six Thinking Hats tool has a real and powerful effect on thinking.
You will learn to: foster collaborative thinking and interaction by keeping egos and 'turf protection' in check reduce the adversarial approach in all interactions use several different way of thinking so that people don't get trapped by negative or critical approaches develop a framework for thinking that provides a more open, creative climate for discussion make time for creative thinking to develop alternative and innovative solutions run more effective and productive meetings		Six Thinking Hats Mind Map 500.47 Kb

Benefits

Leading organisations around the world are now reaping the benefits generated by the Six Thinking Hats method. Parallel Thinking allows people to:

• be fully involved in problem solving, improvement activities and innovative thinking
• have shorter more effective outcome oriented meetings
• creatively solve problems and make better decisions - faster
• analyse and manage situations more thoroughly and effectively
• generate more innovative ideas to enhance organisational performance

Outline

This one day blended In-house program is an interactive and fun workshop presented by Bill Jarrard, founder of Mindwerx International.  It is also available as a half-day introductory public program. In it participants will:

• Discuss the need to change 2500 year old thinking
• Discover the Power of Parallel Thinking to unbundled and focus thinking
• Explore a range of tools including the Six Thinking Hats 
• Learn to construct Deliberate Creative Thinking sessions
• Practice the tools in a range of remote and realistic scenarios
• Develop an ongoing learning plan to ensure ongoing skills development
  

"I felt it was great, I have learnt a tool that I can not only use in my work place, but also in my own personal life." ... Steve Pellicano, Team Leader

"You can do no better than to attend a de Bono seminar" ... Tom Peters, Author, The Circle of Innovation

"The whole course was of immense value. I have read Serious Creativity, however I realise the only way to learn these tools is to do perfect practice. After this course I have the knowledge and model to do that."
... Steve Farrugia, Strategy Planning, Melbourne.

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