Innovation & Creativity

de Bono Training Courses

Among only a handful of trainers Australia-wide, Grand Performance offer the complete suite of Dr. Edward de Bono's training courses.

When we are required to think we often do too much at once. Emotions, logic, hope, and creativity are all mixed up in one and the same process. As a result we limit our thinking.

Six Thinking Hats®

The Six Thinking Hats® separate the different types of thinking - emotion from fact, positive from negative, critical from creative. This organises the approach, and keeps our thinking focused. Each hat has a different colour representing a different way of thinking.

With the help of the Six Thinking Hats® customers dramatically reduce their meeting times (by up to 75% according to IBM) and improve the quality and quantity of their output. These benefits are achieved through the use of Parallel Thinking which assists all meeting participants to focus on the issue from the same point of view at the same time.

Six Thinking Hats® is available in a variety of training formats including both a one-day and a two-day training program, according to the needs of the client.

Lateral Thinking®

Probably Dr de Bono's most famous, Lateral Thinking® gives you the gift of creativity. If you require innovation and creativity on a daily basis, Lateral Thinking® is for you! Systematic tools create new ideas every time they are required. They enable you to take the proven value of an existing idea and develop it so that it fulfils the needs of both today and tomorrow. This is a proven, deliberate and systematic approach that results in genuinely new innovative ideas and solutions.

Lateral Thinking® is a two-day training program. Find out in more detail how Lateral Thinking® can advance your organisation's creative power. Fill in the request for

Direct Attention Thinking Tools® (DATT)

Based on a fundamental understanding of how the brain handles information, DATT® is a thinking skills program of ten tools, designed to help people think, make decisions and solve problems faster.

DATT® concentrates on key group decision-making skills - including goal setting, issue exploration, generating alternatives, evaluation. The systematic use is highly time-efficient and ensures that you have covered all the bases before taking action. Decision-making and action planning is much more thorough and takes less time.
DATT® is available in a variety of training formats including both a one-day and a two-day training program, according to your needs.

Find out in more detail how the DATT tools can enhance your organisation's effective communication and decision-making and send us the request for