Chuck Dymer - Programs

Six Thinking Hats: Six Thinking Hats - improve meeting quality The Six Thinking Hats is a simple but powerful system designed by Dr. Edward de Bono that is guaranteed to transform the way your team thinks. During this program Chuck will teach your team how to combine parallel thinking with creative problem solving to improve the quality of their meetings and expand their creative thinking.
Individuals and teams using The Six Thinking Hats experience:
* Shorter, more productive meetings.
* A new approach to problem solving and decision making
* Reduced conflict
* Improved results
* Higher quality and quantity of ideas

The Big Idea: The Big Idea – generate new ideas Whether you need new products, improved processes, or fresh business strategies, The Big Idea uses proven creative techniques that guarantee a flood of new ideas. Following the idea generation session, Chuck will work with your team to sort through their new ideas to determine which best align with your goals and help you lay the framework for implementing your teams big ideas.

OakWeed: OakWeed - make great things better! OakWeed is a critical thinking technique developed by Chuck Dymer to help your team generate remarkable ideas. During the OakWeed workshop, participants learn ways to ensure that their ideas are one-of-a-kind, thorough, easy to understand, and emotionally engaging. Once teams understand the OakWeed process, they practice by applying it to a topic of their choice. The result is a set of new and remarkable ideas to improve your product or service offering.

The Better Brainstorm: The Better Brainstorm - triple the output of your creative session During The Better Brainstorm, your team members learn how to turn a typical brainstorm into a flood of new ideas. Participants will master both the five steps that guarantee successful idea generation as well as a method to overcome the obstacles found in even the best brainstorm. The Result? - Participants leave the session with a proven tool that they can use during their next idea generation session, a tool that dramatically improves both the quality and quantity of ideas they produce. This workshop is great for professional organizations or teams looking for a short but effective exercise in creative thinking.

The Charge Team Workshop: The Charge Team Workshop - reenergize your team During the Charge Team Workshop, your team will strengthen their relationships as they tackle real problems and develop actions plan to help them move forward. Throughout The Charge, Chuck will also teach your team how to use creative thinking techniques to generate ideas to overcome obstacles, improve current processes or develop new ones. Your newly transformed team will leave refreshed, renewed and revitalized.

Lateral Thinking: Lateral Thinking - take creative thinking to the next level Lateral Thinking is a dependable, systematic approach to creative thinking. During this program Chuck Dymer will show your team how it's used as an igniter, striking the matches that lead to innovation.innovation in process, product and problem solving. It gives participants the tools they need to find profound solutions to stubborn problems and roadblocks that they encounter. Lateral Thinking provides unconventional techniques that help people escape from their usual patterns of thinking to produce enhanced results. The key is creativity. Innovation will never happen without creative ideas, processes, and thoughts.

Direct Attention Thinking Tools: Direct Attention Thinking Tools - focus your thinking During this workshop, Chuck Dymer will present 10 simple strategies for sharpening your perception and focusing your thinking in a more comprehensive, effective, and efficient way. DATT will enable your team or group to have a broad and inclusive viewpoint. The tools create a framework for defining a situation. That framework will improve your ability to consider consequences before you take action. The way we see the world-our perception of it-determines the decisions we make and what we do. Perception is probably the most important part of your thinking.