Innovation Skills Events

Focus on Facilitation End-User

noreply@blogger.com (Innova Training and Consulting, Inc.) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:59:00 +0000

Focus on Facilitation End-User
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Date:Sep 9th − 11th 2008
Time:8:30 AM − 5:00 PM
Location:West Loop – The Mercantile Exchange (Regus) CenterChicago, IL

Focus on Facilitation™ workshops, taught by certified instructors, equip participants to manage group process with new power and efficiency. They learn to help teams get results by using tools from all three de Bono thinking systems: Six Thinking Hats®, Lateral Thinking, and Management Thinking (DATT™). The facilitator credential is also a signal to help clients identify well-qualified individuals with standardized facilitation skills and tools.
Required Pre-requisite: Six Thinking Hats End-user
Focus on Facilitation Expanded option September 8-11,2008
Includes the Six Thinking Hats pre-requisite.

Lateral Thinking Certification

noreply@blogger.com (Innova Training and Consulting, Inc.) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:58:00 +0000

Lateral Thinking Certification
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Date:Sep 9th − 12th 2008
Time:8:30 AM − 5:00 PM
Location:West Loop - The Mercantile Exchange (Regus) CenterChicago, IL

Lateral Thinking - When you master Lateral Thinking techniques you will attack problems with a higher quality & quantity of ideas to get immediate results. Increase your number of new and practical ideas. Challenge your current thinking. Build on the concept behind an idea to create more ideas. Spark you creativity on demand. Find alternative solutions. Turn problems into opportunities. Think creatively. And finally make innovation happen!

Lateral Thinking- End User

noreply@blogger.com (Innova Training and Consulting, Inc.) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:58:00 +0000

Lateral Thinking- End User
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Date:Sep 9th − 10th 2008
Time:8:30 AM − 5:00 PM
Location:West Loop – The Mercantile Exchange (Regus) CenterChicago, IL

Lateral Thinking - When you master Lateral Thinking techniques you will attack problems with a higher quality & quantity of ideas to get immediate results. Increase your number of new and practical ideas. Challenge your current thinking. Build on the concept behind an idea to create more ideas. Spark you creativity on demand. Find alternative solutions. Turn problems into opportunities. Think creatively. And finally make innovation happen!

Focus on Facilitation Expanded (includes Pre-requisite Six Thinking Hats)

noreply@blogger.com (Innova Training and Consulting, Inc.) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:56:00 +0000

Focus on Facilitation Expanded (includes Pre-requisite Six Thinking Hats)
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Date:Sep 8th − 11th 2008
Time:8:45 AM − 5:00 PM
Location:West Loop – The Mercantile Exchange (Regus) CenterChicago, IL
Focus on Facilitation Expanded -includes Pre-Requisite Six Thinking Hats!

Focus on Facilitation™ workshops, taught by certified instructors, equip participants to manage group process with new power and efficiency. They learn to help teams get results by using tools from all three de Bono thinking systems: Six Thinking Hats®, Lateral Thinking, and Management Thinking (DATT™). The facilitator credential is also a signal to help clients identify well-qualified individuals with standardized facilitation skills and tools.
Note: If you have already been through the Six Thinking Hats see our Focus on Facilitation End-User option on September 9-11,2008.

Presenters
September 8, 2008 Six Thinking Hats (required prior to attending Focus on Facilitation), Barbara Stennes, Lifetime Master Trainer
September 9-11,2008, Focus on Facilitation Chuck Dymer, Master Trainer

Course in Creativity (includes Six Thinking Hats & Lateral Thinking)

noreply@blogger.com (Innova Training and Consulting, Inc.) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:55:00 +0000

Course in Creativity (includes Six Thinking Hats & Lateral Thinking)
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Date:Sep 8th − 10th 2008
Time:8:45 AM − 5:00 PM
Location:West Loop – The Mercantile Exchange (Regus) CenterChicago, IL Show me a map!

Do you need an innovation strategy?
Even if you don't -- innovation is critical to your organization. The search is on for how to assure your organization's survival and prosperity into the future. What's desperately needed, and often missing, from innovation strategies are proven, repeatable methods for producing creativity on demand.
The Course in Creativity combines two time-tested results driven methodologies - Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking. As a result, participants will enhance their communication skills, generate more creative ideas, reduce conflict, and improve team results.

Six Thinking Hats- End User

noreply@blogger.com (Innova Training and Consulting, Inc.) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:50:00 +0000

Six Thinking Hats- end user Register Now!
Date: Sep 8th, 2008
Time: 8:30 AM − 5:00 PM

Location:West Loop – The Mercantile Exchange (Regus) CenterChicago, IL Show me a map!

Six Thinking Hats - is a fast paced, intense and interactive course. The measureable results include shorter meetings, thorough decisions, better communication and easier problem resolution. By mentally wearing and switching symbolic "hats", individuals or teams separate thinking into six categories for analyzing matters objectively and comprehensively. It's amazing to see the results that can be accomplished by a person or a team who knows how to separate emotion from facts, the positive from the negative and critical thinking from creative thinking.

Public Event: Six Thinking Hats Certification

noreply@blogger.com (Innova Training and Consulting, Inc.) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:12:00 +0000

Six Thinking Hats Certification Register Now!
Date:Sep 8th − 11th 2008
Time:8:30 AM − 5:00 PM
Location:West Loop – The Mercantile Exchange (Regus) CenterChicago, IL Show me a map!

Six Thinking Hats - is a fast paced, intense and interactive course. The measureable results include shorter meetings, thorough decisions, better communication and easier problem resolution. By mentally wearing and switching symbolic "hats", individuals or teams separate thinking into six categories for analyzing matters objectively and comprehensively. It's amazing to see the results that can be accomplished by a person or a team who knows how to separate emotion from facts, the positive from the negative and critical thinking from creative thinking.

Webcast: Six Value Medald Product Demo

noreply@blogger.com (Innova Training and Consulting, Inc.) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:11:00 +0000

Product Demo- Six Value Medals
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Date:Aug 25th − 25th 2008
Time:1:00 PM − 1:30 PM
Location:Central Time

Join us for a FREE Virtual Overview of a de Bono Course!
Presenter: Michael Campbell, Innova Corporate Certified Trainer at GMAC
This "Product Demo" will focus on Six Value Medals, the newest course by Dr. Edward de Bono. You will be provided with an overview of the course along with a brief Q&A at the end.
This overview will cover:
Who is Dr. Edward de Bono?
Course Objectives
Overview of each medal
Value Scan Technique
Value Assessments
Example of Six Value Medals in Use

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Webcast: Six Thinking Hats ideaHunter

noreply@blogger.com (Innova Training and Consulting, Inc.) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:10:00 +0000

Date:Aug 21st, 2008
Time:10:00 AM − 11:00 AM
Location:Central Time

Join us for a free Six Hats Method interactive e-learning event. You will participate with others to discover how parallel thinking can explode into powerful idea generation.
Lead by: Chuck Dymer, Innova Master Trainer
Attendees receive a VIP discount good towards products and public registration fees!
**Date/time subject to change**
Six Thinking Hats - is a fast paced, intense and interactive course. The measureable results include shorter meetings, thorough decisions, better communication and easier problem resolution. By mentally wearing and switching symbolic "hats", individuals or teams separate thinking into six categories for analyzing matters objectively and comprehensively. It's amazing to see the results that can be accomplished by a person or a team who knows how to separate emotion from facts, the positive from the negative and critical thinking from creative thinking.

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Webcast: Special Event "Getting the Workforce Engaged in Innovation"

noreply@blogger.com (Innova Training and Consulting, Inc.) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:07:00 +0000

Innovation and Engagement Webinar Featuring:
Bruce Fern and Natalie Jenkins

Date:Aug 12th − 12th 2008
Time:12:00 PM − 1:00 PM
Location:Central Time - Please adjust for your Time Zone

Getting the Workforce Engaged in Innovation

Join Bruce Fern, President and Chief Engagement Solutions Architect at Performance Connections International and Natalie Jenkins, Innovation Leader and Vice President at Innova as they broaden your perspective about how to get your workforce engaged in innovation.

When managers, employees and individual contributors are in the groove of innovation and can easily shift into creative thinking, the impact on business competitiveness is striking. Often, though, innovation does not come easily. For example, many businesses experience:

· The fear of risk taking and discomfort with uncertainty
· A culture in which new ideas are shot down
· Managers and employees thinking it’s someone else’s job to innovate

Resistance to innovation can come from employees in a specific job or from a department. At other times, opposition to innovation and change can come from the entire organization. If the people who need to innovate have qualms and hesitancies about innovating, then regardless of the business need for new thinking, it just won’t happen.

Why do so many companies who encourage and support innovation and even implement innovation processes fail to produce great results?

You can give the workforce innovation tools and develop a corporate innovation strategy, but that’s not enough. You must also ask how can we get our people engaged in innovation?

The current research is definitive - a workforce that is engaged in innovation produces higher employee discretionary effort towards developing innovative solutions to tough business problems and opportunities. And this discretionary effort drops right to the bottom-line resulting in higher gross margins and operating profits.

You'll find this 60 minute interactive Webinar time well-spent, learning:
What's on the minds of CEO's regarding employee engagement and innovation
The key drivers of engagement
What Innova’s international research has revealed are the primary obstacles to innovation
Steps for decreasing the time it takes to build a culture of innovation
Five ways to get employees engaged in innovation
Hurry~spaces are limited! Register now and join us for this one hour online session.

Webcast: Focus on Facilitation ideaHunter

noreply@blogger.com (Innova Training and Consulting, Inc.) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:53:00 +0000

Join us for a free Focus on Facilitation interactive e-learning event. You will participate with others to discover how these facilitation tools can save you time, effort, and money!
Lead by: Jay Wenberg, Innova Master Trainer

Date:Jul 31st − 31st 2008
Time:10:00 AM − 11:00 AM
Location:Central Time

**Date/time subject to change**

Facilitator skills are in high demand today as companies search for specialists who are professionally trained to effectively manage team interactions. Whether live or virtual, teams need assistance to move quickly toward project and process goals. Focus on Facilitation™ is the optimum training course for companies who desperately need new systems to help employees stop wasting time in ineffective meetings.

Focus on Facilitation workshops use tools from these three de Bono methods:
Six Thinking Hats® (course pre-requisite)
Lateral Thinking
Management Thinking (DATT™)

Have questions? Want to register?
Register online
Email us
Call 1.866.621.3366
Buy the books! $21.99
Other titles also available in our estore.