Six Thinking Hats: High Performance Thinking

Date: January 21 - 25, 2002

Location: Carnival's Fascination Cruise Ship departing the Port of Miami, Florida

Event: First de Bono Global Thinking Skills Conference. Click here for more information about the conference.

“When you face fast changing trends, fierce competition, and the need to work miracles despite tight budgets, you need six thinking hats.” 

Create profitable new solutions and action plans, fast.

This powerful tool kit embraces the necessary components of effective innovation: focus, planning, idea generation, evaluation, design, and project implementation. The key is taking charge of thinking energy and directing it in one direction at a time. The convenience of a common language speeds up the process and taps into the individual uniqueness that each person brings to the challenge - the key to profitable new solutions. 

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Learning Objectives: In this fast-paced, hands-on session, learn how-to quickly: 

1        Increase your practical new idea output - idea banking

2        Move beyond the frustrating limits of brainstorming to implement strong action plans - boost the bottom-line with profitable solutions

3        Break the idea-killer habit that shuts down creative thinking

4        Rigorously evaluate ideas to select the ones with the biggest impact on the business and quickly eliminate the ones that don’t make good business sense

5        Recognize risk factors and minimize them - save money

6        Reduce the barriers to change - increase acceptance and buy-in

7        Accelerate the teaming process

8        Save time  

“Six Hats is a simple, yet powerful tool that can be learned rapidly and used immediately to achieve long-lasting results. Six Hats has helped our product development group to generate ideas quickly, evaluate them efficiently, and implement action plans effectively.”

- Laura Donahue, Nestlé

 “The results of the training are visible. We have received a large research project due in part to the creativity tools Lynda taught us.”

- Alex D’Anci, Marketing Manager, Corporate Research ABB Finland

 About Six Thinking Hats Master Trainer Lynda Curtin: 

Lynda Curtin, leader of her own flourishing company, The Opportunity Thinker, is highly regarded for delivering bottom-line results. She works with proactive leaders who depend on their teams to be able to work together quickly to develop powerful new business ideas, while conserving precious resources. She understands competitive pressure, and the stress associated with delivering bottom-line results. She has been there. As Product Manager of Canada’s #1 selling brand of major appliances, she helped deliver sales exceeding $100 million breaking all sales and profit records. Then in 1988 a life changing call came. Her skills at creative and innovative thinking were leveraged and she was launched onto a new career path - helping employees see beyond the obvious to “out-think” the competition. 

Her research introduced her to the thinking methodologies created by Edward de Bono. She went on to become certified by Edward in all of his thinking methodologies. Lynda has since taken de Bono’s concepts and put them to work in many organizations to drive revenue and profit. 

She is noted for her talent at helping people at all levels in organizations learn how to take charge of their thinking energy in order to think their way to success. Lynda has earned her reputation of being one of the most experienced and successful high performance thinking practitioners in North America from working with a diverse range of companies that include: Nestle, Hewlett-Packard, Raytheon, Allied Signal, Sears Canada, LA Cellular, Southern California Edison, Caltech, Stanford, Motorola, ABB, Scotia Capital Markets, The City of Fresno.

 A sampling of comments from Lynda’s High Impact Sessions:

·        “High Performance Thinking validates everyone’s style of thinking, teaches new methods to facilitate process.”

·        “The entire program was outstanding. Of the 3 sessions I attended this was by far the best, most informative and USEFUL.”

·        “Very impactful. New way of approaching thought processes and impacting results.”

·        “Excellent speaker. Control and focus were exceptional.”

·        “Lynda’s delivery is excellent. This is my 1st time to the Annual Quality Congress and the best break I’ve attended thus far.”

·        “Lynda - your presentation is superb! Your enthusiasm for your subject is contagious and makes the presentation more effective.”

·        “You have made visible the power of the benefit of tapping the creativity & intellect of people in our organizations. Thank you!”

·        “Lynda, you did a terrific job of keeping things going and keeping on track. What a great tool for development of the ideas we have. I will be able to use this when I get back to the office. Thanks a lot!”

·        “Wish you were part of our team.”

·        “I never thought that I could push my thinking further. This is great.”

·        I will be able to use this when I get back to the office.”

·        “Are you entertaining a job with our company.”

·        “You gave me something to walk away with.”

·        “A very provocative topic. I would love to hear more!”

·        “Very content rich.”

Can't attend the conference? Bring Lynda Curtin into your organization! Develop the thinking power of your employees.