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Drives Change
FUeLs innOvaTiOn
seCUres The FUTUre
POWers The eCOnOMY
is seriOUs BUsiness
Power-Up Your Creative Thinking Skills with Lynda Curtin
Lynda’s Customized Power-Sessions Deliver Results1. The client hosted a three-day Power-Session with a focus to develop ideas to grow the business. Re-
sult: revenue increased by $300 million; Lateral Thinking and Six Thinking Hats tools helped.
2. The client hosted a one-day Six Thinking Hats Power-Session. Result: they developed and implemented actionable ideas to meet breakthrough sales goals on two product lines: +$50 million and +$10 million within six months.
3. The client hosted a two-day Six Thinking Hats Power-Session. Focus: Select a software vendor; en-terprise-wide solution within a $15 million budget. Result: Six Thinking Hats laid the foundation for productive collaboration; the project came in $3 million under budget.
4. The client, a division of a well-known Fortune 500 (a top 50 company), hosted several Focus on Fa-cilitation Power-Sessions. Focus: Strengthen brainstorming and innovation skills within their R&D engineering group. Result: their division generated 44% of all patents filed worldwide at this Fortune 500 company.
Client Testimonials“ The results of the training are visible. We have received a large research project due in part to the cre-
ativity tools Lynda taught us.” — Alex D’Anci, Marketing Manager, ABB Finland
“ By the end of this year we will have doubled our business since our creative thinking session with you Lynda, and we are 60% of the way to the goal. It’s almost time to raise the bar!”
— Dan Weare, National Business Manager
“ 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
Book Lynda Curtin to Lead Business-Critical,Power-Sessions at Your Company
Lynda will work with you to design events focused on your business-critical challenges that need a good dose of creative thinking to resolve. Work on challenges that are confidential and skill-up your groups more quickly. Call Lynda Curtin to start the planning process, and to secure the dates in her busy schedule.
“ Bringing Lynda Curtin in to facilitate a Focus on Facilitation program for us was a great investment! Per-sonally, I am much more confident in my facilitation skills after taking this course, and the feedback from the other participants was fantastic!” — Deb Connors, President, Well-Advised Consulting, Inc.
Creativity Powers the EconomyPower-Up Your Creative Thinking Skills with Lynda Curtin
Call Lynda Curtin Now: 818.507.6055A thriving business since 1994, The Opportunity Thinker is a member of
de Bono Thinking Systems, Inc. global network, an Edward de Bono company.
The de Bono Suite of Productive Creativity and Innovation Thinking Tools offer a set of flexible tools and processes to meet your needs for improved collaboration and creativity in today’s fast paced, challenging business environment. The three tool kits work well together to provide a strong foun-dation to lead innovation and change with confidence.
1. Professionals responsible for leading innovation, ideation, and brainstorming meetings will appre-ciate the intense, hands-on experience in Focus on Facilitation. Effective use of the program’s tools and processes lead to productive thinking together meetings that deliver remarkable results.
Results: Mary Kay Uhing of People Power led a YMCA Board strategic planning session that was so suc-cessful four CEO’s approached her to do on-site work for them.
2. New project teams, including global teams, will quickly learn to work well together using the Six Thinking Hats method; a practical method that sets the stage for collaboration and creativity.
Results: An IBM Fellow and chief scientist used Six Thinking Hats as a method to corral an unwieldy team of more than 200 of the brightest scientists. They were at eight different IBM labs, two govern-ment laboratories, and five university campuses. The project: Develop a chip that would mimic the hu-man brain. The team successfully demonstrated a brain-inspired chip architecture.
3. Lateral Thinking will appeal to professionals who work in the future and need to break apart the status quo if they are to find new pathways to the future.
Results: At DuPont lateral thinking tools led to an employee’s suggestion that eliminated nine steps in the Kevlar manufacturing process. The savings — $30 million.
Creativity Expands the World of What is PossibleFact: Creativity is the “secret sauce” that finds solutions to tough challenges. Creativity moves thinking beyond the status quo. Creativity unlocks hidden potential. Creativity finds profitable new pathways. Creativity pushes change. Creativity is at work all around us all the time.
Unfortunately, creativity is often the missing step in routine business processes; an unnecessary risk if you plan to thrive. Key business signals suggesting creative effort among your workforce is weak when:
• The “status quo” isn’t working.• Profits start to slip. • Sales growth is tough. • Budgets get cut. • Problems linger. • Decisions take forever. • Teams are frustrated.
• Do more with less isn’t working.
• Unproductive meetings are rampant; a real time waster.
• Talented employees leave the company.
• New competitors enter the market with business models that upset the “status quo.”
Creativity Powers the Economy • Creativity Fuels Innovation• Creativity Drives Change
Tip: Ensure creative thinking with creativity tools are a step in your:
• Problem solving process• Decision-making process• Strategic thinking process• Project management process • Innovation process• Change management process• Marketing & advertising process
• Sales process• Product development process• R&D process• Procurement process• Logistics process• Business planning process• Improvement process; every process
Action Item: Audit your processes and find out how robust, or not, your creative thinking tools and steps are. Find out the confidence level of your professionals with the creative process. Do they need a tune-up? Do your processes need a tune-up?
Lynda Curtin, de Bono Thinking Systems practitioner, will work with you to strengthen the creative think-ing skills of your professionals and your business processes. We don’t want you to throw away your cur-rent tools kits. We want to help you strengthen creative effort, so your professionals are equipped to use creativity tools and processes when they need to and want to.
The de Bono Suite of Productive Creativityand Innovation Thinking Tools
Practical. Radical. Innovative
Creativity Secures the Future “ The creative process has had more impact, power, influence, and success than any other process in history.” — Robert Fritz
Book Lynda Curtin to:
> Speak at your next event > Facilitate your business-critical meetings> Lead talent development power-sessions
818.507.6055 l [email protected] l TheOpportunityThinker.com
The de Bono Suite of Productive Creativity and Innovation Thinking Tools offer a set of flexible tools and processes to meet your needs for improved collaboration and creativity in today’s fast paced, challenging business environment. The three tool kits work well together to provide a strong foun-dation to lead innovation and change with confidence.
1. Professionals responsible for leading innovation, ideation, and brainstorming meetings will appre-ciate the intense, hands-on experience in Focus on Facilitation. Effective use of the program’s tools and processes lead to productive thinking together meetings that deliver remarkable results.
Results: Mary Kay Uhing of People Power led a YMCA Board strategic planning session that was so suc-cessful four CEO’s approached her to do on-site work for them.
2. New project teams, including global teams, will quickly learn to work well together using the Six Thinking Hats method; a practical method that sets the stage for collaboration and creativity.
Results: An IBM Fellow and chief scientist used Six Thinking Hats as a method to corral an unwieldy team of more than 200 of the brightest scientists. They were at eight different IBM labs, two govern-ment laboratories, and five university campuses. The project: Develop a chip that would mimic the hu-man brain. The team successfully demonstrated a brain-inspired chip architecture.
3. Lateral Thinking will appeal to professionals who work in the future and need to break apart the status quo if they are to find new pathways to the future.
Results: At DuPont lateral thinking tools led to an employee’s suggestion that eliminated nine steps in the Kevlar manufacturing process. The savings — $30 million.
Creativity Expands the World of What is PossibleFact: Creativity is the “secret sauce” that finds solutions to tough challenges. Creativity moves thinking beyond the status quo. Creativity unlocks hidden potential. Creativity finds profitable new pathways. Creativity pushes change. Creativity is at work all around us all the time.
Unfortunately, creativity is often the missing step in routine business processes; an unnecessary risk if you plan to thrive. Key business signals suggesting creative effort among your workforce is weak when:
• The “status quo” isn’t working.• Profits start to slip. • Sales growth is tough. • Budgets get cut. • Problems linger. • Decisions take forever. • Teams are frustrated.
• Do more with less isn’t working.
• Unproductive meetings are rampant; a real time waster.
• Talented employees leave the company.
• New competitors enter the market with business models that upset the “status quo.”
Creativity Powers the Economy • Creativity Fuels Innovation• Creativity Drives Change
Tip: Ensure creative thinking with creativity tools are a step in your:
• Problem solving process• Decision-making process• Strategic thinking process• Project management process • Innovation process• Change management process• Marketing & advertising process
• Sales process• Product development process• R&D process• Procurement process• Logistics process• Business planning process• Improvement process; every process
Action Item: Audit your processes and find out how robust, or not, your creative thinking tools and steps are. Find out the confidence level of your professionals with the creative process. Do they need a tune-up? Do your processes need a tune-up?
Lynda Curtin, de Bono Thinking Systems practitioner, will work with you to strengthen the creative think-ing skills of your professionals and your business processes. We don’t want you to throw away your cur-rent tools kits. We want to help you strengthen creative effort, so your professionals are equipped to use creativity tools and processes when they need to and want to.
The de Bono Suite of Productive Creativityand Innovation Thinking Tools
Practical. Radical. Innovative
Creativity Secures the Future “ The creative process has had more impact, power, influence, and success than any other process in history.” — Robert Fritz
Book Lynda Curtin to:
> Speak at your next event > Facilitate your business-critical meetings> Lead talent development power-sessions
818.507.6055 l [email protected] l TheOpportunityThinker.com
Drives Change
FUeLs innOvaTiOn
seCUres The FUTUre
POWers The eCOnOMY
is seriOUs BUsiness
Power-Up Your Creative Thinking Skills with Lynda Curtin
Lynda’s Customized Power-Sessions Deliver Results1. The client hosted a three-day Power-Session with a focus to develop ideas to grow the business. Re-
sult: revenue increased by $300 million; Lateral Thinking and Six Thinking Hats tools helped.
2. The client hosted a one-day Six Thinking Hats Power-Session. Result: they developed and implemented actionable ideas to meet breakthrough sales goals on two product lines: +$50 million and +$10 million within six months.
3. The client hosted a two-day Six Thinking Hats Power-Session. Focus: Select a software vendor; en-terprise-wide solution within a $15 million budget. Result: Six Thinking Hats laid the foundation for productive collaboration; the project came in $3 million under budget.
4. The client, a division of a well-known Fortune 500 (a top 50 company), hosted several Focus on Fa-cilitation Power-Sessions. Focus: Strengthen brainstorming and innovation skills within their R&D engineering group. Result: their division generated 44% of all patents filed worldwide at this Fortune 500 company.
Client Testimonials“ The results of the training are visible. We have received a large research project due in part to the cre-
ativity tools Lynda taught us.” — Alex D’Anci, Marketing Manager, ABB Finland
“ By the end of this year we will have doubled our business since our creative thinking session with you Lynda, and we are 60% of the way to the goal. It’s almost time to raise the bar!”
— Dan Weare, National Business Manager
“ 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
Book Lynda Curtin to Lead Business-Critical,Power-Sessions at Your Company
Lynda will work with you to design events focused on your business-critical challenges that need a good dose of creative thinking to resolve. Work on challenges that are confidential and skill-up your groups more quickly. Call Lynda Curtin to start the planning process, and to secure the dates in her busy schedule.
“ Bringing Lynda Curtin in to facilitate a Focus on Facilitation program for us was a great investment! Per-sonally, I am much more confident in my facilitation skills after taking this course, and the feedback from the other participants was fantastic!” — Deb Connors, President, Well-Advised Consulting, Inc.
Creativity Powers the EconomyPower-Up Your Creative Thinking Skills with Lynda Curtin
Call Lynda Curtin Now: 818.507.6055A thriving business since 1994, The Opportunity Thinker is a member of
de Bono Thinking Systems, Inc. global network, an Edward de Bono company.
