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"All valuable creative ideas are logical in hindsight. However, initially they are usually invisible to logic. Lateral Thinking™ gives you the power to see"      "You can analyse the past but you have to design the future."       "Thinking is a skill that can be taught. Unless we teach thinking we waste over fifty per cent of the talent available in society."       “The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future” " Like the front left wheel of a car, our traditional thinking is excellent - but inadequate."       "Thinking is far too often concerned with the judgement of "what is" rather than the design of "what can be."        "Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."       "Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways."       "Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."       "If you never change your mind, why have one?"      "Perception is real even when it is not reality"       "You can analyse the past but you have to design the future"       "The quality of our future will depend directly on the quality of our thinking"        "If you do not design your own future, someone else will do it for you"       "In winning an argument you gain nothing, in losing you gain another point of view"       "A good idea never excludes a better one" "Intelligence is like the horse-power of a car - thinking is the skill with which the car is driven"       "You do not use the reverse gear all the time but when you need it you really do. It's the same with creativity"       "If you learn the successes of the past you risk being trapped by them"      "Possibility is to progress as hunger is to cooking"      "Everyone behaves logically within a personal bubble of perception, values and experience"      "Arrogance is the real system sin because it cuts the system off from reaction and reality"      "With a provocation there may not be a reason for saying something until after it is said"      ""I think therefore I am" I do, therefore I matter"

Focus on Facilitation™ - A course for Facilitators, Team Leaders and Managers

What if you could walk into any meeting, with any group of people, and help them to be more effective? Can you imagine how sought after you would be? And how productive your meetings would become? 

That’s what Focus on Facilitation™ is all about. This course shows you how to combine tools to become an expert facilitator for any kind of meeting. Get employees engaged and help them accomplish much more – before, during and after attending the new kinds of meetings you will plan and facilitate for them.

This instructor-led workshop teaches practical tools; require multiple, coached facilitation practices and includes many useful resources to support you in applying your new techniques:

  • Executive portfolio with room for all your facilitator visuals

  • Complete facilitator handbook

  • Exercise book to collect all the tips you get and thinking you do during the workshop

  • Facilitation cards to “deal” yourself a visual map on the agenda you’re planning

  • Table mats that engage your meeting participants in tracking group progress

  • Slide rules so participants can easily call to mind the steps in the de Bono thinking methods

  • Capture cards for writing, sorting and assessing ideas generated

  • Energy dots to indicate top priority ideas and to measure buy-in on decisions made

  • Catalogue of colourful, practical facilitation supplies, both de Bono specific and generic
  • With the proficiency gained from this course, you will have complete confidence in your ability to work with groups as an expert de Bono facilitator.

    Participants will show up prepared and will contribute fully when you employ all your new tools and techniques. They will rave about your meetings and the results that come from them.

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