BRING IN AN EXPERT
We partner to introduce, facilitate and equip you with state of the art methods, tools and skills in Visual Thinking.

"A facilitative approach activates higher quality thinking and effective communication"
"Our meetings are quicker and more productive when the facilitator is there"
"Visual Facilitation adds structure, needed for clear focussed result"

CONSULTING and FACILITATION

We help you achieve your goals, keep your promises to your customers and sustain competitive advantage in the areas of:

  • Creative competitive strategy making
  • Business development
  • Implementation
  • Planning
  • Decision making
  • Problem solving
  • Dilemma resolution

We provide coaching through project based learning.

 

TRAINING
Get more out of using the tools while accelerating personal, group and organisational effectiveness

  • 'How to' Introductions - one-day workshops for rapid take up of Software and Magnetics products
  • 'Skills transfer' - two, three and four day events for higher level competence development
 

FACILITATION

Become adept at facilitating Visual Thinking in order to align teams for sustained action. Facilitator training generally involves working on current topics of concern whilst being fun, engaging and interactive.

  • 'Competence development' - two, three and four day programs
  • 'Facilitating meetings' - target specific needs e.g. creative innovation, planning, decision support; decision-making; problem solving; knowledge mapping, project management; team development
  • 'Trained in-company facilitator support' - know-how transfer and network resource development
 
 
BRING IN A TRAINER
 
 

ONE DAY TRAINING COURSES
Quick 'hands-on' training in the use of the products are available for accelerating your learning curve and sampling how we use the tools ourselves. Often these courses will include unpublished hints to provide an alternative perspective. The tools and techniques used will vary according to need but generally it is good to start training with the famous "Hexagon Modelling Process", a widely used method for a large variety of tasks.

TWO AND THREE DAY COURSES
These courses are more skills orientated, expanding upon the one day introductory courses and demonstrating the wider areas of application that the methods and techniques can be used for. There are a wide variety of courses available, from the acquisition of skills for facilitating group meetings through to conducting scenario workshops, the basics of live software capture and an introduction to holistic thinking.

IN-HOUSE, CUSTOMISED COURSES AND COACHING
Programs are individually customised to maximising satisfy your needs within the available resources. Training is primarily hands-on and transmitted through practice on a current "hot topic", giving additional value from the investment. As training moves to higher-level competence development we work with you to co-create the right training and tool kit for your needs. The proceedings of the sessions are a valuable resource, which are captured on Idons-For-Thinking software and distributed to participants. Generally these courses will include unpublished content and techniques.

Personal Development: Creativity, practical decision-making, problem solving, and knowledge management.

Group Development: Running productive meetings and facilitated workshops for a variety of applications.

Facilitator Network Development: Joint development on a customised training program for developing a resource of highly skilled in-house Visual Facilitators.
   
 
TRAINING OPTIONS
 
1 day Courses
2-3 day Courses
In-house, Customised Courses & Coaching
Idons-For-Thinking
Software Training
Courses
Quick Intro and 'How To'
of Program Functions
and Visual
Thinking Methods
Live Capture Training
Advanced Live Capture Training
Knowledge Management
Structuring Customised Knowledge Databases

Idon Magnetics Training Courses

A Variety of Modelling Methods and Techniques

Intro to Visual Thinking and Thinking-With-Hexagons Modelling
More Applications of Hexagon and Other Modelling Methods
Developing an Empowered Workforce
Practical Creative Thinking
Changing Mindsets and Thinking Holistically
Higher Level Competence Transfer
Interactive Interviewing
Consolidating and Organising complex information
Task Centred Customisation of the Interview Process
A Quick Hands-on in Scenario Building
Training in How to Conduct Scenario Workshops
Training in How to Conduct In-depth Scenario Projects
Intro to Visual Thinking and Thinking-With-Hexagons for Groups
Advanced Visual
Facilitation Skills
for Group Meetings
Project Based Learning
     
Facilitation Training
Courses
Developing Visual Facilitation Skills
Training in-house
Facilitator Networks
       
BRING IN A FACILITATOR
       
       

Invite "Bee Successful Ltd" to facilitate one of your meetings and experience the power of the tools and methods in action. This is also an ideal way of assessing the process of visual thinking for take-up in your organization.

Better Meetings with Visual Thinking

WE HAVE ALL EXPERIENCED THE PAIN OF A BAD MEETING

But what constitutes a bad meeting?
A bad meeting is one, which leads to:

  • A waste of time, motivation and resources
  • Debilitation and a loss of incentive
  • Poor quality decisions and solutions
  • Unnecessary problems between people
  • Short sighted thinking so 'fixes' fail
  • Constraints to solve the real problems
  • Lack of a clear direction for implementation
  • Agreements based on assumptions - which fail

Are You Looking for a Way to Hold Better Discussions, Meetings,
Work Sessions and Conferences?

Perhaps up to 70% of management time is spent in meetings…

..exchanging information, assessing, planning, making decisions, dealing with problems and the like. These exchanges may be brief or complex but all of them directly interface with the well being and success of your venture. Each exchange may or may not be meaningful, depending on the degree of mind share.

To the detrimental of the organisation, many meetings are for the most part ineffective. It has been noted that some of the best exchanges take place by chance in corridors or at the coffee machine!

Visual Thinking is a unique communication process, which directly tackles the problems that constrain clear thinking. Visual Thinking is a combination of creative Visual mapping tools and methods with a facilitative approach to dialogue. Using this process has repeatedly proven it is possible for groups of people of varying size to have better, faster and more creative exchanges. A variety of modelling approaches enable guided discussions for an almost inexhaustible menu of applications. The most versatile and successful modelling tool is the magnetic hexagon.

"Talking and creating language in a meeting of corporate individuals is not as easy as it sounds. Many things can go wrong, and do go wrong… This is where hexagons have a proven track record."

Arie de Geus, author, "The Living Company"

Rapid Results
Understanding is modelled to expose and manage complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty. Visual Thinking processes helps the emergence of new understanding, insightful ideas and unforeseen opportunities. The process is designed to eliminate polarisation and negative group dynamics, capitalise on diversity in the group and promote collaboration.
     
 
The Bee Successful website is currently under construction. Meet us soon on www.beesuccessful.com for more information on consulting, facilitation, training and scenarios.
 


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