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Our great ‘Try Before You Buy’ series is back, with a host of new FREE webinars for you attend.

The Indigo Webinar Series

In these cost conscious times, and with travel budgets being cut, we appreciate that it is often difficult to get approval to attend a workshop without a full understanding of how it will meet your training requirements, or links to your company’s strategic plan.  For this reason we have created a number of free webinars to help you gain a clearer understanding of our events, before you decide which one to attend.

Similarly, if you have attended a public workshop, and are looking to have us deliver a workshop for your team on an in-house basis, why not use these webinars to help others gain an understanding of your preferred course?

The New Webinar Line-Up:

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Calling All Trainers:  Creative Thinking Skills are in High Demand

Learning & Development leaders are desperately searching for proven, practical and agile tools to ramp-up the creative thinking capacity of their workforces.

Join us for this complimentary webinar and learn more about:

• The need for creative and innovative skills trainers
• de Bono Thinking System’s accreditation process and on-going support
• Skills available such as:  Foundation - Advanced - Leader & Trainer
• Examples of success.

Thursday 3^rd May 2012 - 3pm GMT

We all like to have answers to tough questions, but why is it sometimes difficult to to be clear, concise and brief under pressure?  This webinar introduces the Think on Your Feet techniques and demonstrates how you can use them to maximise clarity, brevity and impact in your every day communication.

Thursday 17^th May 2012 – 3pm GMT

Register- https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/941871046

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SURVIVING PROJECTS - Fast track to the top or gateway to career oblivion

Projects are dangerous. They are high risk, high return ventures. They can revolutionise the way organisations operate and project success often leads to praise and promotion. Failure can be expensive and embarrassing.  This webinar gives and overview to our Project Management Survival Guide and why these core skills are essential if you are running Projects.

Friday 18^th March 2012 – 2pm GMT

Register- https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/260862342

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de Bono Thinking Skills Taster

Are you ready to take your de Bono innovative thinking tools to the next level?  Attend our webinar and learn about our popular Six Thinking Hats and Focus on Facilitation workshops - and how it is helping delegates stand out in their workplace.  Our webinar will feature:

1. High-level Overview
2. Demonstration of Tools
3. Client Case Studies

If you are ready to advance your career, you won’t want to miss this webinar.

Thursday 24^th May 2012 – 3pm GMT

Register- https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/398394214

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The Managing Stakeholders Simulation - Because practice makes perfect projects

Learn about The Managing Stakeholder Simulation from Indigo Simulations.  This webinar gives a short overview of the  Managing Stakeholders simulation, learning outcomes gained and the simulations process itself.

Friday 1^st June 2012 – 2pm GMT

Register - https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/248630670

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In these cost conscious times, and with travel budgets being cut, we appreciate that it is often difficult to get approval to attend a workshop without a full understanding of how it will meet your training requirements, or links to your company’s strategic plan.  For this reason we have created a number of free webinars to help you gain a clearer understanding of our events, before you decide which one to attend.

Similarly, if you have attended a public workshop, and are looking to have us deliver a workshop for your team on an in-house basis, why not use these webinars to help others gain an understanding of your preferred course?

The Spring Webinar Line-Up:

Advanced Innovation Skills:  The Lateral Thinking Taster Webinar

Do you want to be able to generate exciting new solutions, products and processes for your organisation on demand? Do you feel you and your team come up with the same old ideas that never seem to break new ground? Do you feel you generate a lot of ideas but never actually do anything with them?

If you answered “yes” then join us on this Advanced Innovation:  Lateral Thinking Taster webinar and learn about tools & techniques you can use to generate creative idea that lead to successful innovation.

Tuesday 7^th March 2012 - 3pm GMT

Register - https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/906357718

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The Managing Stakeholders Simulation - Because practice makes perfect projects

Learn about The Managing Stakeholder Simulation from Indigo Simulations.  This webinar gives a short overview of the  Managing Stakeholders simulation, learning outcomes gained and the simulations process itself.

Friday 16^th March 2012 - 3pm GMT

Register - https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/150225350

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Think On Your Feet - Mastering the art of Clarity, Brevity & Impact

We all like to have answers to tough questions, but why is it sometimes difficult to to be clear, concise and brief under pressure?  This webinar introduces the Think on Your Feet techniques and demonstrates how you can use them to maximise clarity, brevity and impact in your every day communication.

Wednesday 21^st March 2012 - 3pm GMT

Register-https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/216737694

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SURVIVING PROJECTS - Fast track to the top or gateway to career oblivion

Projects are dangerous. They are high risk, high return ventures. They can revolutionise the way organisations operate and project success often leads to praise and promotion. Failure can be expensive and embarrassing.  This webinar gives and overview to our Project Management Survival Guide and why these core skills are essential if you are running Projects.

Friday 23^rd March 2012 - 3pm GMT

Register- https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/727397678

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de Bono Thinking Skills - Focus on Facilitation Taster

Are you ready to take your de Bono innovative thinking tools to the next level?  Attend our webinar and learn about our popular Focus on Facilitation workshop and how it is helping delegates stand out in their workplace.  Our webinar will feature:

1. High-level Overview
2. Demonstration of Tools
3. Client Case Studies

If you are ready to advance your career, you won’t want to miss this webinar.

Wednesday 4^th April 2012 - 3pm GMT

Register- https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/472776542

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Calling All Trainers:  Creative Thinking Skills are in High Demand

Learning & Development leaders are desperately searching for proven, practical and agile tools to ramp-up the creative thinking capacity of their workforces.

Join us for this complimentary webinar and learn more about:

• The need for creative and innovative skills trainers
• de Bono Thinking System’s accreditation process and on-going support
• Skills available such as:  Foundation - Advanced - Leader & Trainer
• Examples of success.

Thursday 3^rd May 2012 - 3pm GMT

Register-https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/500135334

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In around 500BC, the renowned Greek Philosopher and Mathematician, Pythagoras, was attributed with saying “do not say a little in many words but a great deal in few”.  A message that today’s business professionals can relate to when listening to long-winded, directionless communication in the workplace.

In the 17^th century, French Philosopher Rene Descartes shared his wisdom on effective communication in a book called ‘Discourse on Method’.  Descartes identified three characteristics of excellent communication:

1. Analysis – get to the core of the subject you are about to talk about. This will help you stay clear and concise.

2. Separation – clearly separating one idea from another, your listener can easily digest one point before moving onto another.

3. Movement - arrange your ideas in a logical sequence, so each idea builds on the other – this adds energy, impact and persuasion to what you are saying.

Fast forward to 2012 and on the Think on Your Feet® workshop you learn simple and easy-to remember methods for putting the theory into practice.  The most powerful communicators really do find a way to get across their message without saying too much.

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Indigo is thrilled to partner with the thirteenth annual Learning Technologies Conference on 25 January Creativity expert and author, Dr Edward de Bono, will open with a keynote speech on one of the fundamental issues facing business: how we think!

The Learning Technologies Conference attracts the L&D sector’s foremost speakers: fifty different speakers will present at the forthcoming event in January. The conference will opened by Dr Edward de Bono who will deliver a keynote speech, ‘Meeting the L&D challenge with smart, creative and innovative thinking,’ challenging L&D professionals to assess how they think and how to tap their creativity to improve business performance.

Conference Chair Donald Taylor, looking ahead to the opening keynote by de Bono, said: “With economies in turmoil and companies bewildered, the world is realising that it can no longer look to the past to predict the future. There has never been a stronger need for a different approach to business and this opening keynote by Dr Edward de Bono get’s to the core human skill that makes all the difference: Thinking!”

Indigo’s Managing Director Robert Fisher, commented on the partnership and this unique conference: “The Learning & Skills Conference provides a wonderful opportunity for learning professionals from all aspects of the industry to review and assess new changes and think about the way forward for Learning and Development.  We are particularly thrilled to work in partnership with the conference this year, making Dr de Bono available for this keynote, and exhibiting too.”

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. In many ways he could be said to be the best known thinker internationally. For many thousands, indeed millions, of people world-wide, Edward de Bono’s name has become a symbol of creativity and new thinking. He has written numerous books with translations into 34 languages and has been invited to lecture in 52 countries around the world. Edward de Bono’s special contribution has been to take the mystical subject of creativity and, for the first time in history, to put the subject on a solid basis.

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To keep up to date with all the latest news and January 2012 event developments, visit www.learningtechnologies.co.uk and www.learningandskillsevents.com

Indigo will exhibiting throughout the conference at Stand 274 in the Exhibition area.

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In these cost conscious times, and with travel budgets being cut, we appreciate that it is often difficult to get approval to attend a workshop without a full understanding of how it will meet your training requirements, and link to your companies strategic plan.  For this reason we have created a number of free webinars to help you gain a clear understanding of our events, before you decide which one to attend.

Similarly, if you have attended a public workshop, and are looking to have us deliver a workshop for your team on an in-house basis, why not use these webinars to help others gain an understanding of your preferred course?

THE INDIGO WEBINAR SCHEDULE:

• THE DE BONO THINKING SKILLS - 2nd November, 3-4pm GMT: The Master Practitioner Webinar - FREE - REGISTER HERE
• THINK ON YOUR FEET® - 17th November, 3-4pm GMT: Mastering the art of Clarity, Brevity & Impact - FREE - REGISTER HERE
• PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT - 25th November, 11am - Noon GMT: Steer your organisation clear of initiative overload - FREE - REGISTER HERE

If you would like any of these webinars delivered exclusively for your team or organisation, simply call us on +44 (0)20 7924 8760.

Robert

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De Edward de Bono's world renowned thinking

In an interview released yesterday on the Times of Malta, Edward de Bono demonstrates his passion for better thinking in Governments.

An excerpt of the interview reads:

“The motivation of politicians is to survive,” he points out as he recounts an anecdote later about when he told British Prime Minister David Cameron in a letter to appoint a Minister of Thinking. “They’re always cautious about taking an initiative which could expose them to criticism.”

Click here for the full interview… http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110918/local/The-audacity-of-thinking.385122

Robert

ROBERT FISHER

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If you want to learn more about the de Bono Thinking methods, and why so many companies, business leaders, creatives, 3rd sector organisations, schools and government organisations use these techniques for improving innovation and the ways teams work; simply drop us a line on:

TEL:  +44 (0)20 7924 8760

EMAIL: edwarddebono@indigobusiness.co.uk

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We all run projects at some time. It is highly likely that, during your career, you will be given a project to manage. Whether it’s a short, low risk project, or a more strategic, longer and often more dangerous project.

Why dangerous? Well projects are dangerous. They are high risk/high return ventures that can revolutionise the way organisations operate in an increasingly dynamic and changing world.  Project success often leads to praise and promotion but project failure can be expensive and embarrassing.

“Project Management can be a fast track to the top or a gateway to career oblivion.”

To give you an overview of our Project Management Survival Guide™ workshop, we are running a free webinar.  You can watch the webinar from the comfort of your desk on the 19^th October 2011 between 2pm and 3pm GMT.

The webinar will focus on three areas:

1.       Some common pitfalls with projects

2.       Outline some ‘blockers’ to running successful teams

3.       Give you an overview of the Project Management Survival Guide™ workshop

What to do now: Booking your free place at this webinar is simple. Follow these three simple steps:

1. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/351545630
2. Receive full technical joining instructions from us.
3. Wait for your email reminders as we approach the webinar and we look forward to hearing you comments on the day.

• “Excellent Workshop. I didn’t realise Project Management had so much to do with people Management”

• “Very Impressed - Excellent presentation. A good mix of information”

• “Excellent. Very well explained. There was not one moment I was bored”

• “Excellent! Two days very well spent. Stimulating. Lots of practical ideas and tips”

• “I thought it was great and will recommend the course to others”

• “Very Interesting, Good Discussions & practical examples. Excellent Teamwork exercises”
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After a crazy night of destruction and devastation here in Clapham, I am pleased to announce that our team, our office and more importantly our surrounding community is OK.  Mercifully no-one appears to be hurt in last nights riots, and the local community feeling around our headquarters is one of defiance against the troubles and that we ‘keep calm and carry on’.

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If we take a hundred year perspective from now, what is going to be seen to be important?

A lot of things which seem very central and important at the moment will be seen to be trivial and peripheral.

In the days of the railroad barons (and later oil barons) in the U.S.A. there were powerful figures on the landscape. Today they are quaint notes in history. The dominant Bill Gates’ of today will also be quaint notes in history in a hundred years time.

What will really matter are the fundamental shifts in human beliefs, human thinking, human behaviour and human organisation. There is not much happening in these areas. And what is happening is totally swamped by the very transient matters that abound in entertainment, politics and elsewhere.

So can you email me, EdwarddeBono@indigobusiness.co.uk, with what you think would be in a speculative book looking back from a hundred years ahead?

Edward de Bono - July 2011

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Every year I say I am not going to get hooked on the BBC’s hit show ‘The Apprentice’, and then it draws me in and I am there to the bitter end! But at least, this year’s record viewing figures for the show prove that I was not the only one!

What struck me with this year’s change of circumstances – with the candidates vying to become business partners with Lord Sugar - was that, as well as the ‘nice guy’ coming first; this was a triumph for innovation too.

The winner, Tom Pellereau is not the average back-stabbing, hard-nosed business apprentice that Sugar usually looks for. In fact he is, by his own admission, not great at selling and could be more organised. But there is one thing that Tom is very capable of doing – having ideas.

In fact it was when Tom outlined he had invented a new type of Nail File, and had managed to sell this into Walmart and Boots in the UK and US, that Lord Sugar realised this innovator was a worthy asset to his business empire.

We all recognise that it is the modern organisation’s ability to continually innovate, change and adapt to its environment that makes it successful. Tom says he “sees designs for new products in his head”, which is great for him, but leaves the rest of us with a skills gap; how can we all get ‘on-demand innovation’ tools for great ideas?

Dr Edward de Bono’s Lateral Thinking™ tools are a great start for both individuals and teams. So if you would like a copy of our Implementing Innovation webinar held recently, drop me an email to RobertF@indigobusiness.co.uk , and I would be happy to share our innovation road map with you.