TRAINING OVERVIEW:

What is the Lateral Thinking™ course all about?

§         The Need for Creative Thinking

The limits of logical and critical thinking

Why creativity is a learnable set of skills

 Lateral Thinking™ Techniques:

­         Alternatives – How to use concepts to breed new ideas

­         Focus – When and  how to change your focus and improve your creative efforts

­         Challenge – Breaking free from the limits of accepted ways of operating

­         Random Entry – Using unconnected input to open new lines of thinking

­         Provocation – Moving from a provocative statement to useful ideas

­         Harvesting – Selecting the best of early ideas and reshaping them.

SIX THINKING HATS

Course Overview

«     The Practical Use of the Six Thinking Hats ®

Six Hats and decisions

The systematic use of Six Hats to solve problems and develop innovative solutions

Sharing the benefits of the Six hats process with your team

«     Challenge your Thinking

How organizations and people really think

How to change from adversarial to cooperative thinking

Using Six Hats to get the big picture and clarify your thinking

            Identify your own thinking preferences

«     Putting on Your Thinking Hats

Why Six Hats?

Overview of each hat’s purpose and examples

How and why the Six Hats framework works

«     The Nature of Each Hat

How to separate facts from feelings

How to use and not abuse the system

Facilitator: Dr. Sunil Gupta, Ms. Shikkha Gupta,
Certified Edward de Bono Instructor

IDEAS Management Consultants

Muscat: P.O.Box 308, Jibroo, P.C. 114, Sultanate of Oman

Tel       : 24798881, 24791876          Fax: 24704394