Pre-Conference Tutorial
Title: Your Fast Track to Innovation: The Six Thinking Hats
Sponsor: American Society for Quality, Human Development and
Leadership Division
Recharging Personal and Organizational Performance
Date & Location: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 in Chicago,
IL
Price: $365.00 Conference Price: $695.00
Free
Article: Six Thinking Hats for Full Color Thinking, Adobe Acrobat 4.0 file
Conference
Brochure - Adobe Acrobat 4.0 PDF file; go to page 4
Description
Create new robust 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 innovative solutions. Six Thinking Hats is a deliberate,
systematic, step-by-step process designed to discover fresh new solutions to
challenges by moving beyond the predictable. Strengthen your business with fresh
new approaches. Add value for your customers. Take the lead.
Objectives
- Increase your practical new idea output
- Create/improve processes, products, services on command
- Move beyond the frustrating limits of brainstorming to implement strong
action plans
- Break the idea-killer habit to discover hidden opportunities
- Rigorously evaluate ideas to select the ones with the biggest impact on
the business
- Recognize risk factors and minimize them
- Reduce the barriers to change
Included in your workshop fee: The official course materials developed
and approved by the international authority on creative thinking, Dr. Edward de
Bono, the originator of Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking. You will receive
a comprehensive workbook book and helpful job aids that will serve as handy
reference tools for years to come.
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