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What We Do


In our interactive and fun seminars and workshops we teach simple yet powerful collaboration tools and creativity tools that foster greatly improve individual and group thinking resulting in:-

- More ideas - systematic development of ideas
- Systematic evaluation of ideas - better solution to problems
- Reduce meeting times
- Higher staff morale

We also facilitate problem solving workshops.

Company - Wide Innovation


Lay a foundation for company wide innovation by adopting the collaboration and thinking tools as a core company competency beginning with the most senior management personnel.
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Team Power – High Performance Meetings Workshop

A customized workshop for organizations who want to radically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their meetings.

This workshop is based on the concepts from “The Six Thinking Hats®” book by Dr. Edward de Bono.  You can expect to:-


- Keep meetings focussed

- Get every member to participate fully

- Generate numerous alternatives when required

- Make better decisions with the information available

- Get great buy in to the final decision by group members

- Save 20% to 40% of meeting times

Please contact us for further details.

Innovation through Collaboration Workshop

A customized workshop similar to Team Power – High Performance Meetings Workshop with similar outcomes and with the addition of more deliberate creativity tools to result in more choices for generating new ideas.
Please contact us for further details.

Leadership Skills in Problem Solving and Decision Making Seminar

This is a public seminar suitable for all professionals and based on the concepts from Dr. Edward De Bono's book 'The Six Thinking Hats(R)'.

Crash Tutorial for Senior Executives

We recognise that many senior executives may be interested to participate but may not be able to spend a full day on any of these subjects, please ask us to tailor a short course (2 or 3 hours) according to your availability and specific areas of interest.

Please contact us for further details.

Venue

All customized workshops can be held in your premises or in external conference centres, and can also be residential if preferred.  Public courses are at various venues in Hong Kong or Kowloon as indicated on the relevant course materials and our website.

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The Trainer's Profile

Ian D. Robertson is a graduate of the University of Auckland and is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.  He has formal qualifications in management, ISO9000, NLP, and Edward de Bono Thinking Programs for Students and has participated in four seminars conducted by Dr Edward de Bono or his Master Trainers.  He has worked as a Director and or/Manager on Civil Engineering Project, Manufacturing and Service Industries, ISO9000 Implementation, ERP implementation, and as a founding Director of a successful global software company.  Since 2003, Ian has been following his passion training professionals, teachers and students using Dr. Edward de Bono's Thinking Concepts.  In 2007, he conducted a workshop entitled "Introduction to Edward de Bono Thinking Methods for students" at the 13th International Conference on Thinking held in Sweden.

Ian has a NLP Practitioners Certificate awarded by Judith de Lozier one of the founders of NLP.  He has also participated in 8 days of seminars with Anthony Robbins in Singapore and Australia.