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Illuminating Newsletter from
Management and personal skills development hints, tips and special offers focused on developing
better brains for better business®
+44 (0)1753 866633 www.illumine.co.uk info@illumine.co.uk
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Creative Thinking for Business
Creative thinking is important in business as it provides the solutions required to overcome challenges and problems, leading to growth in the business. This newsletter takes a look at how you can make your organisation more creative by releasing the creativity in yourself and your employees...
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Challenged by how to make your organisation more creative?
Clive Lewis, Founder and Managing Director of Illumine Training provides valuable insight into the questions, "Do you need to make your organisation more creative? And can you?" A very important, but widely ignored subject from the perspective of a senior manager and business leader.
Read more...
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The 'Illuminating' Brain Workout...
1. My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick! Fat, I am slow! The slightest breeze can be my foe. What am I?
2. I come in many colors and I am very thin. I am found in every country, and in every home. I am very important; you can be very creative with me. I can even help you learn. What am I?
Answer at the bottom of this email...
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Bolster Your Creativity, Today
Need to bolster your creativity? It's easy if, first, you remember that creative thinking and creativity isn't the preserve of the marketing team or the R&D department and, second, you learn, develop and practice the appropriate thinking techniques. Find out more about the techniques available in this article, taken from the FREE Illumine Guide to Generating and Communicating Ideas.
» Find out more in the full article here...
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Reverse Your Life! Another great technique for creative thinking...
Look at your life and all its aspects and activities, and consider, one by one, reversing everything in this article.
» Find out more...
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"First comes thought; then organisation of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination." Napoleon Hill
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"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Get more inspirational quotations at
www.illumine.co.uk/inspirational-quotes
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Releasing the Creativity of Your Employees...
Stop for a moment and consider the most successful companies of the last 50 years. Do you know what made them successful? Their employees and the fact that the company heads tapped into the creative thinking of those working for them. The more you use the talent at your disposal, the better your company will fair when it comes time to develop new products, new services, and attract new business. If you know what type of creative talents your employees have, then you understand what it takes to move forward in the business world against your competitors.
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FREE GUIDE - Generating and Communicating Ideas
This guide discusses the components required and introduces you to some of the proven concepts and techniques you'll require to generate and communicate your ideas.
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For anyone who needs to run creativity sessions. Providing a basic overview of the planning and process that you need to take to make these sessions effective.
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Central London courses and workshops coming up..
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14 September 2011: Mind Mapping for Business, www.illumine.co.uk/bmap
27-28 September 2011: Think on Your Feet® - verbal communication skills, www.illumine.co.uk/toyf
4 October 2011: Stress Management, www.illumine.co.uk/stre
5 October 2011: Better Business Relationships, www.illumine.co.uk/bbus
6 October 2011: RapidConsensus, www.illumine.co.uk/rapc
18 October 2011: Creativity for Logical Thinkers, www.illumine.co.uk/crlt
19 October 2011: Advanced Thinking and Learning, www.illumine.co.uk/atlw
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'Illuminating' Brain Workout answers:
1. I am a candle.
2. I am paper.
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The next newsletter: Thinking Before You Speak
On the spot? Under pressure? Difficulty in articulating your thoughts? Need to be able to think (and speak) on your feet?
Being able to think (and speak) on your feet is a skill that you can master; you'll feel and come across as more confident, you'll be persuasive and ultimately, you'll have IMPACT! Find out more in next month's issue...
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This newsletter is produced by the Illumine Marketing Team and edited by Richard Evans. The information presented in this newsletter remains the copyright of Illumine Training and its respective writers and authors. You can post these articles to your blog and website as long as it is not for commercial use. You must reference this back to Illumine Training and the Illumine website (www.illumine.co.uk). Images used have been leased and permission should be sought from the image owners.
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