TEAM BUILDING – MAKING IT REALLY WORK?

Effective teams can be really powerful.  A really good team building session can certainly help a team work more effectively together.  The questions are does it translate into the workplace and is it sustainable? Read more

Innovation Upturn

Bill Gates recently said, “We are in an economic downturn but an innovation upturn.” Most people are focusing on the downturn and the dangers it poses rather than on the opportunity for innovation. Most businesses are restructuring, streamlining their operations, reducing headcount, cutting budgets and re-forecasting.

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One on One meets one of the world’s greatest creative thinkers

Dr Edward de Bono

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Creating New Ideas at the Creativity Laboratory

Researchers, Directors and Producers from Channel 4 were trained in a number of Dr. Edward de Bono’s Lateral Thinking Techniques. The sessions could hardly be more relevant to their work. The techniques are now an integral part of the way the researchers approach their work and have already yielded results.

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Enhanced Teamwork and Collaboration

Using Six Thinking Hats™ at Boeing to put differences aside and focus on resolving the real issues.

Motivated by a strong desire to reach a positive outcome, a Boeing committee of union and management representatives recently turned to Six Thinking Hats™. Using the methodology, the committee was able to break down the traditional barriers that exist between management and unions to reach a win-win solution.
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Hats off to thinking!

Making the right decision quickly is a hugely valuable skill. Now Royal Mail managers can crack workplace problems in an
environment dedicated to Edward de Bono’s thinking techniques.

The Holst Group in partnership with Royal Mail’s Innovation Lab have sponsored the world’s first Six Thinking Hats® Room. Read how the Royal Mail are making ideas practical using Edward de Bono’s techniques.

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Good for Business, Bad for Schools?

I understand the Stephen Covey Organisation has put together a schools version of the 7 Habits. Amazingly this has been attacked by the education establishment as being wishy washy, mumbo jumbo, management speak and not appropriate for an academic environment.
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Do Creative People need Six Hats?

Top Public Relations Consultancy, Countrywide Porter Novelli certainly thinks so. The Holst Group provided training in Edward de Bono’s thinking techniques that are now used throughout the business.

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Free Innovation & Creativity Workship – 17th April

You are invited to a FREE early evening innovation workshop at Europe’s Finest Innovation Lab.

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‘Creativity’

Edward de Bono’s Message

As I have mentioned so often the word ‘creativity’ in English is too broad and ranges from creating a mess to painting a masterpiece. The emphasis is on ‘bringing something about’. At the same time repetition does not qualify. So there is an element of ‘new’. Read more

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