Thinking Around Corners 2022
It's been some carousel ride for everybody since late 2019! And for the business community in Ireland the carousel had been fairly rickety already with Brexit and all its many uncertainties. It's also been impossible for businesses to accurately predict three months in advance not to speak of mid to long term.
But you still have to plan ahead and make your best guess. And solve problems that appear from nowhere. And come up with ideas that will get you that new special point of difference that makes your services and products the ones that people want to buy and use. And after all the blows and bashes of the past two years you may find that the methods you use to find the edge in your business have become just a bit blunt (and even a bit boring for staff) and less and less effective.
And that's where reloading and sometimes completely changing the arsenal of ways to do all these things comes in! To make your business as successful as possible in these weird and yet wonderful times.
Thinking Around Corners has been developed to allow participants to check out a range of different and exciting ways of assessing and dealing with problems and discovering and creating opportunities for future success. ATPO are so delighted to be linking up with Waterford Local Enterprise Office to deliver these sessions. The five session course is highly interactive with oodles of experiential components and a huge dollop of fun.
Who is this course for?
It’s for managers, leaders and entrepreneurs at all levels of development. The course will enable all participants to explore new ways of thinking and behaving in order to develop
- Their own skill sets and
- Their teams opportunities to flourish and most importantly
- Their businesses' future success!
What topics will the course cover?
This course will look at five distinct methods that can be used in business to enhance innovative thinking, behaving and predicting. These are
- Creativity
- Curiosity
- Lateral and Parallel Thinking
- Thinking Outside the Box
- Humour
Method:
Each of the above will be presented and explored in the following ways.
- Define it: Origins. Examples of its use in a business setting.
- Experience it: A hands-on experiential activity for attendees to get a chance to trial the method.
- Apply it: A number of ways to apply the method to attendees’ business settings.
- Review it.: An opportunity for attendees to assess how a method was trialled in their workplace.
- Develop it: A framework to fully implement the method within attendees’ business.
What are the Key Take-Aways for Attendees:
- Expanding thinking and behaviour skill sets that can be used in your business.
- Reignition of your forgotten skills for use in a business setting.
- The opportunity for you to practice new and different thinking skills and approaches in a supportive setting.
- A wide range of alternative thinking processes and activities to re-evaluate what's possible for you, your staff and your business development.
Here's the Timetable and Agendas for each of these exciting sessions.
Webinar 1
Creativity: Creating Opportunities from Problems.
Tuesday 8th March 9.30 – 11.30 a.m.

Webinar 2
Curiosity: Digging Deeper for Bigger Gems.
Thursday 10th March 6.30 - 8.30 pm

Webinar 3
Lateral and Parallel Thinking: Using Different Mindsets
Tuesday 15th March 9.30 – 11.30 a.m.

Webinar 4
Thinking Outside the Box: No Limits for New Insights.
Tuesday 22nd March 6.30 - 8.30 pm

Webinar 5
Humour: Empowering Divergent Thinking.
Thursday 24th March 9.30 – 11.30 a.m

Registration is now open at https://www.localenterprise.ie/Waterford/Training-Events/Online-Bookings/Thinking-Around-Corners-Creativity-Creating-Opportunities-from-Problems-LEW-2022.html





