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FREE New & Improved Webinar Innovation for Results:
~ A LUNCH SAMPLER ~
March 16,  2010 12:00pm  - 1:00pm CST

Innovation for Results is New & Improved's two-day course that teaches participants how to make creativity and innovation happen by both creating opportunities and solving problems rapidly and effectively.  All while working on real challenges, not simulation.

We have brought this course to organizations of all sizes including your favorite Fortune 100 companies.

Of course, a two-day webinar seems a bit much (we dare you to avoid email for two days). Instead Jonathan Vehar and Bob Eckert, co-founders of New & Improved, are offering you a one-hour lunch sampler.

You should plan on attending if:
1. You have not attended the class but want to think more creatively and bring more innovation to your work and life.
2. You participated in our two-day seminar and would like a refresher.

Okay, basically everyone should plan on attending.

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/879974274

Are You Ready to Go into Space?

"If the development of air travel was the responsibility of NASA, we'd still be traveling from city to city staring at the [back] end of an oxen."  This was a quote from Burt Rutan, whom I met at the Front End of Innovation Conference a couple of years ago.  

While it's all too common to complain about the government, Rutan is a guy who does something about it.  You'll recall that he was part of the team that won the Ansari X prize, a $10 million award going to the first privately-funded craft that could go into space twice in the course of a week.  

Neuroscience, Will and Mental Mastery

  
In our work at New & Improved, we see it as our responsibility to energize as many innovative brains as possible. We often have conversations with participants in our training programs about the "exercise of will." We work with this in attempting to do a better job of deferring judgment, finding yet one more idea, choosing to manage our mental stories etc. We came across a fascinating article this morning that has some interesting scientific things to say about "will" and neurology.

 

Bottom line: You have the power to exercise your will in even the worst of situations.

Read it here: http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4025

Innovation Leadership Training in Istanbul March 1, 2010

Leading High Performance Innovation Cultures

Energize and Improve Your Company’s Innovation Quotient
In association with Solid Consulting

1-Day Interactive Workshop (English)
 
Designed for: Senior leaders and executives, line managers, organizational development professionals and senior HR professionals

Date: 1 March 2010
Place: Istanbul
Fee: 1000 USD + VAT

Location: http://www.pointhotel.com/barbaros/
Register with Solid Consulting by reaching Pelin Urgancilar by e-mail at pelin.urgancilar@solidtr.com

In Brief
We hear the word innovation in every corporate brief, and see the word in every value statement globally. So what makes one organization more innovative than another? Is it possible to improve the 'innovation quotient' of the organization?

Innovation Training in Istanbul March 2-3

Innovation for Results

Tools and Techniques of Creative Problem Solving
In association with Solid Consulting

2-Day Interactive Workshop (English)

Designed for: Supervisors, managers, technical experts who needs to identify problems, generate ideas, or participate in implementing plans of action

Date: 2-3 March 2010
Place: Istanbul http://www.pointhotel.com/barbaros/
Fee: 1250 USD + VAT

Register with Solid Consulting by reaching Pelin Urgancilar by e-mail at pelin.urgancilar@solidtr.com 

In Brief
We need ourselves and our employees to be innovative yet we often lack training in the research proven methods for causing innovation to occur frequently in our organizations and on our teams. Then people wonder why innovation is not happening enough at our organization.