American Creativity Association
2007 International ConferenceConference
Presentations and Presenters
2007 ACA
International Conference
March 21 - 23, 2007
with pre-Conference Institutes - March 20, 2007
in Austin, Texas
Practical Applications of Using de Bono Thinking
24x7 in Your Organization, Department, or Team
Mary Ellyn Vicksta
Innovation Prioneer
Kimberly-Clark
1414 W. Larsen Rd.
Neenah, WI 54956
: 920-721-5391
920-721-0250 Fax
mevick@kcc.com
www.kimberly-clark.com
Mary Ellyn Vicksta spent the last 24 years at Kimberly-Clark
in the areas of Product Development, Marketing Research,
and Creativity/Creative Problem Solving. She facilitates
almost daily and provides training in various aspects of
innovation, with highly engaging courses in understanding
creativity and enhancing associated facilitation skills.
Mary Ellyn serves as an internal consultant to the various
facilitators and project teams within Kimberly Clark providing
advice on innovation, creativity, and team formation.
Natalie Jenkins
Vice President
Innova Training & Consulting, Inc.
: 2570 106th Street, Suite A
Des Moines, IA 50322
515-278-5570
515-278-2245 Fax
njenkins@innovatraining.com
www.innovatraining.com
Natalie Jenkins is an expert in de Bono Thinking methods
such as, Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking. She
dovetails her love for creativity and thinking by leading
the national sales effort for Innova Training & Consulting,
the leading US distributor for de Bono Thinking Systems. She
closely collaborates with her clients, expertly helping them
develop innovative thinking training and skill development
that are in alignment with her client's strategic goals.
Natalie has nurtured the development of de Bono's new thinking
tool, de Bono 24x7, since its inception and has worked closely
with several strategic partners, like Kimberly Clark, to
make this a strong tool for individual and group thinking,
including virtual collaboration.
Practical Applications of Using de Bono Thinking
24x7 in Your Organization, Department, or Team
Within organizations, many people lack a structured approach
for generating new ideas, harvesting the best thinking, and
developing a concrete set of action steps. new thinking
tool, de Bono Thinking 24x7, gives users the opportunity
to stretch thinking, generate new ideas, and select alternatives
all in a systematic fashion. Natalie Jenkins from Innova,
will demonstrate the use of this powerful software. Mary
Ellyn Vicksta of Kimberly Clark will show practical applications
of using this software within an organization. Both
will comment on how you can use it individually or with a
group to improve the quality of your thinking and to stretch
your creativity, including how this tool can be effectively
used in virtual collaboration.
Attendees of this interactive session will learn how to:
- Collaborate and Innovate – virtually and face to
face
- Generate new ideas on demand
- Minimize communication problems
- Unlock their thinking
- Understand a systematic approach to innovation
- Share real-world examples of applying de Bono thinking
systems in a virtual collobative environment
- Separate out their thinking – emotion from facts,
the positive from the negative, and critical from creative
- Use de bono Thinking 24x7 – each attendee of the
session will receive a free 45-day trail of the software
All levels will find of interest and useful
Experiential/ Hands-On
There will be an overview of de Bono thinking systems methods
and then the group will use the tools on a real issue utilizing
de Bono 24x7 as a facilitation aid. By using de Bono
24x7 we will also be able to provide each attendee with the
output of their thinking session. |
