Bono's Lateral Thinking™ Workshop. Empower your people to challenge current thinking, solve problems and generate new ideas with Edward de Bono’s business creativity and innovation workshop - Lateral Thinking™. Who is it for? Creativity is something that everyone, no matter what role or level, can be a part of and contribute too. Successful organisations ensure that creative teams are made up of a diverse range of people. This workshop is designed for all executives, managers, professionals and advisors who are concerned with making their organisation more innovative in the face of growing competition, and the emergence of new business models.
Lateral Thinking™ for individuals – Empowers and maximises your ability to generate ideas and problem solve, invaluable to any organisation. The tools and techniques you’ll develop can be deployed across a wide range of business and personal challenges, so you can make a real difference. Lateral Thinking™ for managers - Creativity and problem solving are 2. We often develop groups of managers from one company through our in- house training option. This develops a network that is focused on changing the processes and mindset of the organisation, and the implementation of the techniques when they return to the workplace.
Innovation is not necessarily about making new stuff – it’s about innovating to improve processes that already exist. Lateral Thinking™ for senior managers and leaders – Creativity is at the top of the leadership agenda, according to a study by IBM. Be seen to take ownership of leading innovation, walking the talk and understanding how your organisation works. Leaders use creativity to intellectually challenge and generate ideas from across the business and multiple disciplines, encouraging and enabling collaboration and a more engaged workforce. What's it all about? The challenge - With the ever increasing pressure to provide added value in everything we do, it has become a necessity for managers and staff to be consistently innovative if modern organisations are to survive. In an increasingly competitive world, traditional methods of problem solving can only take us so far. We need to go beyond problem- solving to generate new concepts and new ways of doing things. Indeed, we must learn to do so ‘on- demand', instead of just hoping we will somehow stumble on an innovative idea.
How this workshop will help - Lateral Thinking™ is a systematic approach to the creative thinking process. Delegates learn to use deliberate techniques to stimulate creativity and, as a result, gain competitive advantage. What will you get out of it?
Lateral Thinking™ will equip you with solid, practical methods for challenging current thinking: You’ll find out how to harness your own creativity so that it can work for you, when you need it. You’ll learn to solve problems and generate new ideas to meet the challenges of the modern business environment. You’ll leave with skills that you have practised and can apply immediately on return to your workplace.
What will your organisation get out of it? Dr de Bono’s Lateral Thinking™ methods provide a deliberate, systematic process that will result in innovative thinking by anyone who takes the time to learn and practise the skills. You will learn how to: Attack problems with more/better ideas for immediate results. Increase your number of new and practical ideas dramatically. Challenge your organisation’s current thinking (constructively). Find alternative solutions.
Turn problems into opportunities. Indigo is Edward de Bono’s European distributor – every workshop is delivered by an accredited trainer, so you are guaranteed maximum return on your training investment. Typical workshop content. The Need for Creative Thinking.
Lateral thinking is a term developed in 1973 by Edward De Bono, with the publication of his book Lateral thinking: creativity step by step. Lateral thinking involves looking at a situation or problem from a unique. From personal experience, as both a comedian and an accredited Lateral Thinking Trainer, I have come up with ideas in all the ways described above. To debate whether creativity is the result of a logical or a lateral thinking. Holacracy the New Organizational Governance for a Rapidly Changing World; 11 useful Tricks to Improve Your Creative Thinking; Ninja Innovation Killer Techniques for Intrapreneurs; 3 Tips To Boost Creativity and Inspiration. A 'po' is an idea which moves thinking forward to a new place from where new ideas or solutions may be found. The term was created by Edward de Bono as part of a lateral thinking technique to suggest forward movement, that is. Analysis of the Lateral Thinking Model. A strength of De Bono’s model is that it provides a logical, common sense approach to creativity. In addition, there is minimal amounts of jargon to learn other than a few words which.
Methods. Critical thinking is primarily concerned with judging the true value of statements and seeking errors. Lateral thinking is more concerned with the 'movement value' of statements and ideas. A person uses lateral.
The limits of logical thinking. Why creative thinking is a learnable set of skills. The Lateral Thinking™ Techniques. Alternatives - How to use ‘concepts’ as a breeding ground for new ideas. Focus - The discipline of defining your focus from the outset, and sticking to it.
Pin It; Photo by Okko Pyykko. Everyone knows critical thinking kills creativity. Suspending judgment in order to come up with new and unusual ideas is one of the sacred cows of the creativity movement. Everyone knows that.
How to generate and use a 'creative hit list'. Challenge - Breaking free from the limits of the accepted ways of operating. Random entry - Using unconnected input to open up new lines of thinking. Provocation and movement - Explore the nature of perception and how it limits our creativity. Provocation techniques are designed to challenge these limitations.
Movement is a new mental operation that we can use as an alternative to judgement. It allows us to develop a provocative idea into one that is workable and realistic. Implementation of Ideas.
Harvesting - At the end of a creative thinking session, we normally only take note of the specific ideas that seem practical and have obvious value. We need to make a deliberate harvesting effort to collect ideas and concepts that are less well developed. Treatment of ideas - How to develop ideas and shape them towards their practical application in your business."Delivered exactly as advertised, practical tools, theory, guidance, and ideas on how to use when back at work."Lateral Thinking™ can count towards your CPD recognition with leading professional body's and trade organisations. You can normally record your attendance in the 'organised learning' or 'self- learning' sections. Please check with your membership organisation for more information. Indigo workshops help you harness improvement and innovation to deliver tangible benefits to your business.
Our workshops can be. You can reserve a place on this course for £8. VAT. An in- house workshop is ideal for training teams and departments. They are the easiest way of training many delegates, making the most.
In- house workshops typically result in a 5. Delegate places are available at £4.