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Learn the Lateral Thinking Tools with a Master Trainer

Lateral Thinking Course - 20 & 21 November 2007 - e-mail mail@debono.org for more details.

When you face fast changing trends, fierce competition and the need to work miracles with ever decreasing budgets, you require systematic creativity and innovation, you need Lateral Thinking.  This two-day workshop will give you the skills to think outside the square for strategic needs, solving difficult problems and generating the ideas required for innovation.

Attend this course if you need to:

• Build capability to see things differently.
• Learn systematic and logical processes for producing solutions and new ideas.
• Build added value into existing ideas.
• Challenge the status quo.
• Manage the key stages of the creativity process.

Six Thinking Hats - Wellington

We are running an accreditation programme for the Six Thinking Hats in the week of 26 November 2007 with a Master Trainer who has been personally trained by Dr Edward de Bono. As part of this programme, you can register for a one-day course in the Six Thinking Hats on the 27 November 2007, or a two- day Master Class on the 27 and 28 November 2007. The course will be held in Wellington, New Zealand.

Simplicity and Creativity

There is a huge overlap between creativity and simplification. There is a need to find alternative and new ways of doing things. This design thinking demands creativity.

What is Lateral Thinking™?

Lateral Thinking: “A way of thinking that seeks a solution to a problem through unorthodox methods or elements that would normally be ignored by logical thinking.” (Oxford English Dictionary)

According to Dr. Edward de Bono, there are two types of thinking. He calls one "vertical thinking" that is, using step-by-step logic. He calls the other "lateral thinking" which involves disrupting an apparent normal-thinking sequence and arriving at the solution from another angle.

Master Class and Six Thinking Hats Accreditation

We are running a four-day accreditation programme for the Six Thinking Hats on the 1 - 4 October 2007 with a Master Trainer who has been personally trained by Dr Edward de Bono. As part of this programme, you can register for a one-day course in the Six Thinking Hats on the 1 October 2007, or a two- day Master Class on the 1 and 2 October 2007. The course will be held in Melbourne.

refresh the mind

The recent books we have read and loved!

• World Changing - A User's Guide for the 21st Century by Abrams
• How to Have Creative Ideas - 62 Exercises to Develop the Mind By Edward de Bono
• Ever wonder - ask questions and live the answers by Kobi Yamada
• Marketing Genius by Peter Fisk
• Changing Minds by Howard Gardner
• THe Hidden Connections by Fritjof Capra

Learn the DATT tools with Canterbury Girls' School

As part of the Creative Minds Initiative, CGSC is offering a DATT Professional Development Programme.

Programme Details:

Cost:    $400 incl GST.

Date:    Day 1 - Thursday August 16 2007

Day 2 - Friday August 24 2007

Time:    9am – 4pm

For further information contact Peter Hillman at hillman.peter.c@edumail.vic.gov.au or 03 9830 5099.

Download DATT.pdf

de Bono Accreditated School

Canterbury Girls’ Secondary College (CGSC) has became the first de Bono Accreditated School.

Dr Edward de Bono accompanied by the CEO of the de Bono Institute, Ms Susan Mackie visited the college to make the formal presentation of the accreditation.

The photo is of Dr Edward de Bono and Ms Neridah Peirce, the Principal of CGSC.

For more information please e-mail: mail@debono.org

Run your own race

In his book, Sur/petition Dr Edward de Bono discusses how competition will no longer be enough in the future and why there will be a need to shift to sur/petition. The word competition means ‘seeking together.’ This means accepting that you are running in the same race as your competitors. Your behaviour is quite largely determined by the behaviour of the competitors. Sur/petition means “seeking above” or creating your own race. It means creating new “value monopolies.”

An example of sur/petition I’ve watch grow and develop is the establishment and growth of an Adelaide-based business called WOMANLY. On the surface it may seem that WOMANLY is just another retailer competing against other retailers, albeit working in the niche market of women’s designer clothing sizes sixteen to twenty two.

how to have creative ideas

62 GAMES TO DEVELOP THE MIND

Everybody wants to be creative. Creativity makes life more fun, more interesting and more full of achievement, but too many people believe that creativity is something you are born with and cannot be learned.

launch of the six value medals

The key to making decisions that will deliver maximum value lies in creating a framework that is specific enough to add meaning but is also pliable enough to expand and contract with each unique challenge.

 

The skills taught in Six Value Medals help people quickly but thoroughly scan for values, prioritize which values are the most important to pursue, and then ensure that top values are addressed and maximized every step of the way.  It's like putting on a pair of glasses with six lenses, one for each of the six important value categories.

Creativity for Simplification and Value Creation

Edward de Bono is presenting in:

Sydney

Date: Wednesday 2 May 2007
Venue: Grand Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel

Canberra

Date: Friday 4 May 2007
Venue: The Hyatt Hotel 

Melbourne

Date: Tuesday 8 May 2007
Venue: Melbourne Exhibition Centre

Learning DATT for Educators – Workhop starting on the 30 April 2007

Download datt_flyer_mount_eliza.pdf

In this workshop, learn fit for purpose tool to thoroughly explore problems, ideas and opportunities before taking action or making a decision. Help deepen and expand your current perception. Help your thinking performance become more deliberate, organised and effective. Make problems easier to solve. Make the best possible decisions quickly. The workshop details are as follows: 3 x 2 hour sessions: • Monday April 30th 4-6pm • Monday May 7th 4-6pm • Monday May 14th 4-6pm Venue: Mount Eliza Secondary College Canadian Bay Road Mount Eliza Cost: $82.50 including GST. Afternoon Tea provided Please contact Leonie King at Mount Eliza Secondary College on 9787 6288 or via email king.leonie.k@edumail.vic.gov.au

unpredictability

Well, I keep promising to get better at blogging and the weeks go by and I still have not.  Tahlia is a year and things seem to get more complicated!  Maybe one day I will get better, in the meantime I am going to stop promising.

What a year ….

I have worked full-time (funny hours though) with a supportive board; patient clients who have being prepared to chat at 8:00 at night; training trainers with a new- born in a pouch, running between an office and home with a baby, with lots of stuff and much organisation; a supportive husband and patient YiaYia (Cypriot for Grandmother) who traveled with me on business trips; amazing organisations who have accommodated my breastfeeding, and Thalia’s needs; and all many people who were quite happy to have a baby in the meeting.   The other enjoyable part is one minute you are working and the next chasing a baby around the floor with her crawling away and laughing. Some of who may have wondered what was happening to your proposal, reseach report etc! What did I do with all that time I had before?

Ignite Your Thinking - Fuel Seminar Series

Happy New Year! May this year bring many good moments for creative thinking. This month has flown by so quickly. Things have been quiet on the blogging front with so much happening. So please forgive me once again!

There is a new and exciting change coming within the Institute. I would have moved house twice within 6 weeks by next week. Spent some time in Singapore with other de Bono distributors learning about the new things that are coming, such the Six Value Medals course. Adapting to a suddenly very mobile 9 month old who is teething, enjoys our travels and wants more. I think I am starting to understand the concept of adapt and learn.

Our Public Seminar dates for 2007 are attached for those who are interested in igniting their thinking.

Susan

Download dates_2007.pdf

The Power of Thinking

Is it time for a fresh perspective?

Is it time for fresh thinking?

Give your thinking some fuel and develop your creativity.