session overview

Meeting the L&D challenge with smart, creative and innovative thinking

Dr Edward de Bono

The way business is delivered today is going through revolutionary change. Fostered by developments in technology, the modern world is changing at an unprecedented rate. With economies in turmoil and companies bewildered, the world is realising that they can no longer look to the past to predict the future. In short, there has never been a stronger need for a different approach to business – a need to think laterally.

This need for innovative thinking presents a new challenge to learning and development.  We need to equip every individual in our organisations with the skills that foster agility, innovation and smart decisions. Dr Edward de Bono will get to the core human skill that makes all the difference – THINKING. 

If you think of the human brain as a computer and then ask yourself what software do your employees have to operate and get the most out of the system?  What would your answer be?  Dr. de Bono will explain the ‘software’ we are operating with and why this needs a fundamental shift to help us develop ‘on demand innovation’. De Bono offers a thinking ‘upgrade’ to our thinking ‘software’ that is much needed in modern times – the de Bono thinking systems.  These systems meet the needs of organisations searching for:  creativity, innovation, critical thinking, design, decision making, creative problem solving and more.

Dr Edward de Bono is one of the very few people in history who can be said to have had a major impact on the way we think. He developed the term lateral thinking and in many ways he could be said to be the best known thinker internationally. For many thousands, indeed millions, of people world-wide, Dr Edward de Bono's name has become a symbol of creativity and new thinking.

Modern problems require modern thinking and thinking is a skill that can be learned and developed. Dr de Bono will show us how.