Linda Low

LINDA was among the first 12 persons in the world to be specially selected and trained by Dr Edward de Bono to provide training in his methods.

On account of her phenomenal success, Dr de Bono appointed her Master Trainer and his official representative in Southeast Asia region. He has acknowledged her as his leading trainer of his programmes globally (Edward de Bono international website message, 16 March 1997).
For 15 successive years, she win the Top Performer Award in all of Asia and Oceania. In 2002, she was among only three trainers worldwide to be awarded Lifetime Certification in all Edward de Bono Thinking Programs on account of her training excellence.

She holds a Masters degree in Adult and Continuing Education for Lifelong Learning from the University of London. Besides lecturing at the Singapore Institute of Management and The Hong Kong Management Association, she is also a guest lecturer at universities in the UK, including St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

She has presented to international audiences at conferences in Dublin, Chicago, Boca Raton (Florida), Malta, Hong Kong and Beijing. She has also addressed government assemblies in Sabah, Sarawak and Taiwan. She was featured on the Money Talks show (Asian Business News), LearnNet (RTÉ, the Irish National television station), AM Singapore and Focus (Television Corporation of Singapore).

Her clientele of more than 250 major corporations includes Asia Matsushita, SONY, Citibank, Singapore Airlines, Singapore Press Holdings, Singapore Mass Rapid Transit, Housing Development Board, Board of Commissioners of Currency of Singapore, INTAN (Malaysian Civil Service), Bank Negara Malaysia, the Sarawak Civil Service, China Light and Power, Hong Kong Hospital Authority, MTR Corporation in Hong Kong, Hutchison Whampoa, Hong Kong Securities and Future Commission, and The Hong Kong Jockey Club.

In Singapore, Linda was significantly involved in the Ministry of Education’s effort to launch Edward de Bono’s CoRT Thinking Programme in the country’s education system in 1987. An excellent team builder and motivational speaker, she was one of six personalities featured in the November 1995 issue of Meetings and Conventions, a professional training magazine, as the most sought after speakers in the Asia Pacific region.

She is the Managing Director of Edward de Bono Training Pte Ltd which officially represents Dr de Bono in Southeast Asia, as well as Hong Kong, Macau, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. She is a Charter Member of de Bono Thinking Systems (dBTS), and Advanced Practical Thinking & Training (APTT). Both dBTS and APTT are official bodies dedicated to promoting Edward de Bono’s Thinking Methods worldwide and are listed in the American INC. 500 of companies.

Values are central to all our decisions, choices, actions and strategies. Everything we do is directed towards obtaining some value or delivering some value.

But though they are important, values remain vague for many people. We make decisions focusing on the more obvious values while ignoring the others, and have no clear means of gauging the impact of our decisions.

What the Six Value Medals Framework will give us is a means to focus on values in different directions, assess their strengths or size and pinpoint sources of conflicts a situation.

Topics

SIX THINKING HATS®
Parallel Thinking For Teams

Most errors in business decision comes from errors in thinking. The Six Hats Process ensures that thinking outcomes are sound and teaches teamwork at the most fundamental stage of work – the thinking process. By engaging everyone to use the same mode of Thinking at the same time, the team practices parallel thinking.

This speeds up the discussion process and saves precious time while increasing thinking output substantially. Individuals are able to transcend their personal biases in the process hence ensuring more well-thought out solutions which incorporate not only critical thinking but take into account intuitive insights and the all enriching component of serious creativity.

THE POWER OF PERCEPTION™
Widening Perceptions For Better Focus

The way we perceive the world determines the decisions we make and what we do. Perception is probably the most important part of our thinking. Most mistakes in thinking are mistakes in perception.

DATT™ allows the user to review different aspects of a situation in a more focused way, through 10 Tools. It is a simple systematic approach which will result in better decision making and greater satisfaction all round, without the painful penalties that arise from hasty decisions.

Studies have proven that when people are specifically asked to use DATT™ thinking tools, their thinking dramatically improved by as much as 300%.

LATERAL THINKING ™ Applications
Refresh Thinking Processes

What Lateral Thinking offers you is the ability to lead your team using specific systematic steps which are simple to understand and easy to use.

Dr de Bono’s proven Lateral Thinking™ Method provides a deliberate systematic process that will result in innovative thinking.

Through LATERAL THINKING™, you will learn how to to solve problems by using unique techniques and processes. With these tools, individuals, teams and companies able to solve tough problems and create new products, processes and services.

SIMPLICITY™
Gain Efficiency in Business

In this complex world, things are becoming more and more complicated over time instead of becoming simpler. Simplicity is a key value but it is not enough to just think about it.

Serious determined effort must be made to achieve simplicity through attitudes, frameworks and specific thinking techniques.

Reduce cost, time, mistakes and frustration by getting your employees to think up new ways of doing things in a simpler way, which will lead to faster-to-market innovations and easier process systems.

SIX VALUE MEDALS™
Injecting Value Into Business Proposals

Values are central to all our decisions, choices, actions and strategies. Everything we do is directed towards obtaining some value or delivering some value.

But though they are important, values remain vague for many people. We make decisions focusing on the more obvious values while ignoring the others, and have no clear means of gauging the impact of our decisions.

What the Six Value Medals Framework will give us is a means to focus on values in different directions, assess their strengths or size and pinpoint sources of conflicts a situation.

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