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You pay a significant sum for a coaches time – it is a personal growth opportunity that should last a lifetime, and reach wider than your business career.   Make sure you get good value!

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Seven reasons why good coaches rarely give advice

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Six Thinking Hats

Dr Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats is a simple and powerful tool. It will change the way your team thinks by teaching creative problem solving skills. You and your team will learn how to:

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Six Thinking Hats

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Who do you know who can facilitate important meetings and workshops to get better results by replacing arguments with discussion,  fuzzyness with focus, and defensiveness with teamwork?

Who can then go on to carry decisions forward by coaching teams or individuals through to full implementation of the agreed objectives?

And what if this

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Coaching, facilitation, and problem management

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Do you know that feeling when you don't have the right resource in your business? Perhaps something unexpected has cropped up, or a persistent problem is making itself felt - again. What to do? Can you ignore it, and hope it will go away? Can you get some quick training, or sit and read a business book? How about ringing someone and asking for help? But who? Well, that is where I help.....

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Who ya gonna call? – Delivering Better Business

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One big difference between mediocre and highly effective teams lies not so much in their collective mental equipment, but in how well they use their abilities to think and how well they work together.

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Six Thinking Hats – an outline

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A productive, efficiently run meeting can save thousands, create new ideas that help a company achieve financial success, solve major problems, and foster an atmosphere that motivates individuals.

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Why engage a Facilitator?

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Return on Investment – ROI

I can help you to establish the return on your  investment, often simply called ROI, in £££s and business statistics, or softer measures such as attitude shifts, engagement improvements, and observers’ opinions.

Together, we: • set measurable objectives • measure the baseline • plan the work • work to

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Return on Investment – ROI

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The simple formula for tackling problems -

Identify and clearly state the problem to be dealt with.  If it seems fuzzy, spend some time deciding what is in and what is out of scope – this will save time later.  Who should we invite to help define the problem and establish the facts around

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Problem Solving in Businesses

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Dr Edward de Bono offers the following insight:

“Parallel thinking is best understood in contrast to traditional argument or adversarial thinking.

With the traditional argument or adversarial thinking each side takes a different position and then seeks to attack the other side. Each side seeks to prove that the other side is wrong. This is the

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Parallel thinking – the de Bono view

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Facilitation makes for more productive meetings, new ideas, improved team-working and problems resolved faster with better buy-in.  One key outcome is improved engagement and powerful communications in and between organisations.

Ten common reasons for retaining a facilitator:

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Facilitation