Russell Chalmers

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Russell Chalmers

• Chief Executive
• The Holst Group

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• SIMPLE PRACTICAL EFFECTIVE

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Stretching your Thinking

• A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains
  its original dimensions
• Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Definitions

• Creativity generating new unexpected ideas
• Innovation choosing and implementing the
  best

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• Innovation is a Science not an Art

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The decline of genius in divergent creative
thinking

• Age 3-5 98
• Age 8-10 32
• Age 13-15 10
• Age 25 2

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- until it catches on
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• 9 dots looking like this.
• Dots can be any size providedthey are all the
  same.
• 3) The spaces between the dotscan be any
  distance provided they are all equal

Join all 9 dots up with 4 straight lines only
and without taking your pen off the paper.
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3 Lines ???
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1 Line!! ??
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• How do we make Innovation an integral part of day
  to day operations

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The more I practice the luckier I get
Gary Player
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Count the Fs in the following textFINISHED
FILES ARE THE RE-SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-IC
STUDY COMBINED WITH THEEXPERIENCE OF YEARS
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Count the Fs in the following textFINISHED
FILES ARE THE RE-SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-IC
STUDY COMBINED WITH THEEXPERIENCE OF YEARS
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The Innovators Toolkit
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Lateral Thinking
Example
Issue How to improve the effectiveness of
meetings
Random Word Elephant
Large Reduce the size of our meetings Reduce
the length of meetings Grey Ensure the agenda
is relevant to all attendees Inject some humour
into meetings
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• How do we make Innovation an integral part of day
  to day operations

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Lateral Thinking
Example
Issue Reduce shoplifting from supermarkets

• Publish lists ofshoplifters in papers
• Photos of thieves on shop doors

• Public
• Deterrent

• Hang people outside the store

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Actual Excerpts from Royal Navy Marines Officer
Fitness Reports

• His men would follow him anywhere,
• but only out of curiosity
• I would not breed from this officer
• The only time my Navigating Officer is absolutely
  sure where he is going
• is shortly after he has taken a laxative
• Has a full six pack,
• but lacks the plastic thingy that holds it
  all together

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• Creativity is an intellectual exercise
• Innovation is a social process

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Proposal
Every member of staff will take a 6 month
sabbatical every 5 years to be funded by
receiving only two thirds ofnormal salary in the
18 monthsprior to the sabbatical
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Six Thinking Hats
Adversarial
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Six Thinking Hats
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Impact of Six Thinking Hats

• Six Hats levels the playing field in Diversity
  and Inclusion
• The productivity and quality of ideas and
  actions generated by the technique have been
  nothing short of phenomenal
• We achieved in less than a day what would
  otherwise have taken a week

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Six Thinking Hats
Information
Feelings
Caution
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Six Thinking Hats
Benefits
Creativity
Manage the thinking
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Proposal
Every member of staff will take a 6 month
sabbatical every 5 years to be funded by
receiving only two thirds ofnormal salary in the
18 monthsprior to the sabbatical
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Proven Benefits of Six Thinking Hats

• Greater involvement by everyone
• More creative solutions
• Collaborative exploration of ideas
• More objective evaluation best idea not my
  idea

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Proven benefits of Six Thinking Hats

• Ego and hierarchy removed
• Improved listening
• Reduces language barriers
• Impact on Diversity and Inclusion
• Personal thinking/creativity tool

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