Lateral Thinking Workshop Description at a High Tech Company

Dr. Edward de Bono is known around the world as a leading expert in creative thinking. From his research, he's found that creativity is a repeatable, transferable skill- one that can be learned, perfected, and summoned on demand. He calls his techniques "Lateral Thinking" --the deliberate process of moving across established thinking patterns to explore a whole new way of thinking about something.

 This class explores De Bono's Lateral Thinking Techniques:

1. Alternatives: How to use concepts to breed new ideas 

2. Focus: When and how to change your focus and improve your creative efforts 

3. Challenge: Breaking free from the limits of accepted ways of operating

4. Random Entry: Using unconnected input to open new lines of thinking

5. Provocation: Moving from a provocative statement to useful ideas

6. Harvesting: Selecting the best of early ideas and reshaping them

We face fast-changing trends, fierce competition, and the need to work miracles despite our daily challenges. The Lateral Thinking Techniques will help us "out-think" the competition. They're time tested and proven around the world in over 30 countries.

Come prepared to spend 2 days learning how to flex your own mental muscle, to boost your brainpower, and to learn how to systematically think out-of-the box.

Outcomes: you will be able to:

• Constructively challenge your current thinking

• Find and build on the concept behind one idea to create even more ideas

• Spark creative thinking by using random words and objects

• Select the best alternate idea and implement it

• Turn problems into opportunities

• Gain contributions from the whole organization by using idea-generating tools that everyone can use  

Instructor Bio

Lateral Thinking Presented by Lynda Curtin

Lynda Curtin, a high performance thinking practitioner, has been teaching others de Bono's Lateral Thinking since 1994. She understands competitive pressure and the stress associated with delivering bottom line results. As a product manager of Canada's #1 selling brand of appliances she helped deliver sales exceeding $100 million, breaking all sales and profit records.

 Lynda is highly regarded by clients for her talents at helping teams think out-of-the-box to develop profitable business solutions. They love her results oriented, practical approach, and you will too. Her practical business experience connects with clients.

She has worked with companies such as Nestle, Motorola, 3M, HP, Sears Canada, Amgen, Rockwell, Pacific Bell, Wells Fargo, Merck and other high-tech industry leaders. 

For more details go to Lynda's website at www.LyndaCurtin.com

Lynda Curtin, The Opportunity Thinker, is a member of the de Bono Thinking Systems Global network, a de Bono organization.