Looking for resources to assist personal development of middle managers to enhance their problem solving skills with a particular emphasis on lateral thinking and thinking outside the box.
Antony Davies
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What box?
Well Antony, this is a really popular request. We are all obviously very busy thinking inside our respective boxes!
If you e mail me at ericwelburn@yo329ut.freeserve.co.uk I can send you one or two ideas that should help.
Regards,
Eric Welburn
P.S. Who said there was a box in the first place?
Lateral thinking
The Year 2020 Exercise.
With the students in groups of 3+ tell them that they are editors of a paper or whatever. The date is 31 December in the year 2020 and they have to produce an article that summarises the past year/decade but for now all you want are headlines and perhaps a summarising paragraph.
Allow 7 min
For more ideas give me a call
Paul Hobbs
The Thinking consultancy
01784 44 04 04
Website full of lateral thinking puzzles
Anthony, lateral thinking puzzles, used sparingly, can be a good starting point. Try this website for puzzles attributed to Paul Sloane.
http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/~arlet/puzzles/lateral.html
Exercises and puzzles
Dear Antony
I have some fantastic puzzles and exercises which last between 15 seconds and two hours.
Give me a ring and I will share.
020 8871 5063
Regards
Maggie
Creative & Lateral Thinking Exercise Library
Dear Antony
Exercises within the Change & Development Exercise Library have been designed with this exact objective in mind. E-mail me your postal address and I will send you a FREE sample exercise and a complete catalogue of all exercises available.
Emma Smith (TMS Development International Ltd, 01904 464522)