Workshop November 2008

Creativity and Innovation in your business - Interactive Workshop

Details Wednesday November 19 Green Rooms Function Ctr, Greengate Hotel 9.30am - 12.30pm Tickets $95 members / $145 guests Presenter Graham Raspass Director, BSILearning    Topic Edward de Bono Six Thinking Hats RSVP Friday 13 November Book now via our website Book now via Sticky Tickets for automatic receipt

Harnessing Creativity for your Business In today's competitive environment organisations are left with very few resources that they can use to improve their competitive advantage. In fact, we are rapidly heading towards an era where the greatest remaining potential for gaining a competitive edge in the marketplace will lie in the minds of your people. Thus Innovation and Creativity are much sought after skills. Edwards de Bono's Creative Thinking Tool, Six Thinking Hats, is utilised by organisations seeking to provide their managers and staff with the enthusiasm, creativity and courage to make every meeting, every discussion and every decision come alive with new ideas.  Attend this workshop to:  Learn how to increase the constructive output from meetings and decrease meeting times Learn how to explore each situation or problem and generate alternatives that go beyond obvious solutions Learn how to use 'Parallel Thinking' techniques as a powerful alternative to Adversarial Thinking People are seeking quality everywhere except in the most important area - the quality of thinking. We need better thinking methods in order to make full use of our available intelligence and experience and the Six Thinking Hats system is a surprisingly simple and proven technique that can help to transform your business.

Speaker Profile

Graham Raspass

Graham Raspass MIMC, spent 17 years working for Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in both the United Kingdom, USA and Australia. After completing his studies in Business Management and Marketing at Bristol in the UK, and a brief stint in commercial radio he joined the Leo Burnett advertising agency as a Graduate trainee. After a short time he was head hunted to join the advertising sales department of News Corp's UK newspaper operation based in Fleet Street and was ultimately seconded to Australia to work on the Murdoch flagship, The Australian.

During his time with News Corporation Graham held a wide range of executive positions including Advertising Manager of The Australian, Advertising Sales Director, MATP, Assistant General Manager, MATP and Managing Director, Cumberland Newspapers.

Since 1993 he has been Director of his own companies specialising in organisational development and change and business and performance improvement.

During his time as a corporate adviser Graham has worked with a long list of blue chip international and Australian companies. His involvement has spanned many industries including the media, IT, government, airlines, entertainment, communications, motoring, transport, distribution, retail advertising and numerous others. His involvement with these companies has been predominantly in the area of business improvement, working closely with executive management to help create exceptional organisations through cutting edge processes and approaches.

Graham's expertise lies in his ability to gain defining insight into organisational issues and work closely with managers to create new and dynamic futures as well as implementing the strategies that will make the difference.

For more informstion see www.bsilearning.com.au