The SixHats Training CompanyLateral Thinking
Lateral Thinking, created by Edward de Bono.
Lateral Thinking provides a deliberate, systematic process resulting in innovative thinking.
The competitive need to generate breakthrough ideas has never been greater. We may rely on “flashes of inspiration”, but we would never leave other areas of our business to chance – so why Creativity and Innovation?
True Lateral Thinking is the most proven and effective way to deliberately and consciously produce new ideas on demand. Everyone has the potential to be creative - but only if they are taught the skills. Lateral Thinking training is now accessible for entire organisations or teams to tap into the full potential of your people to be creative.
Lateral Thinking training will teach you how to think creatively, turn problems into opportunities, find alternative solutions, & dramatically increase your number of new and practical ideas using unconventional thinking techniques normally untapped by our usual ways of thinking.
Who Needs Lateral Thinking?
Not only people who devise strategy or work in R & D, but anyone who wants a disciplined process for innovation, idea generation, concept development, creative problem solving, or a strategy to challenge the status quo can benefit from Lateral Thinking.
If you face fast-changing trends, fierce competition, and the need to work miracles, you need Lateral Thinking.
Lateral Thinking Techniques
• Alternatives: Use concepts to breed new ideas
• Focus: Sharpen or change your focus to improve your creative efforts
• Challenge: Break free from the limits of accepted ways of operating
• Random Entry: Use unconnected input to open new lines of thinking
• Provocation: Move from a provocative statement to useful ideas
• Harvesting: Select the best of early ideas and shape them into useable approaches
• Treatment of Ideas: Develop ideas and shape them to fit an organisation or situation
How Might You Use Lateral Thinking?
The Lateral Thinking techniques are useful in a variety of applications.
• Constructively challenge the status quo to enable new ideas to surface
• Find and build on the concept behind an idea to create more ideas
• Solve problems in ways that don’t initially come to mind
• Use alternatives to liberate and harness the creative energy of the organisation
• Turn problems into opportunities
• Select the best alternate ideas and implement them
Seeking to solve problems by unorthodox or apparently illogical methods
