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Some skills are best learned using a hands-on approach. All our workshops are conducted in small groups, so you get the full benefit of the material. We use real examples taken from your own business, so that as you learn the principles you get to apply them right away!

We run our workshops regularly from our premises in Scotland, and from venues around the UK. We can even arrange site visits, so you can train several of your personnel and explore the challenges of your own business in complete confidentiality.

The workshops are outlined below - click on a link for detailed descriptions. For further details, or to book your workshop, just click the button at right.

The Ideas Factory Workshop

How to solve every problem you'll ever encounter: quickly, efficiently, and devastatingly effectively.

When was the last time you solved a problem? I mean, really solved it. Solved it so that your solution really worked and you didn't have the problem any more, solved it so your solution didn't throw up any more problems which needed to be solved as well, solved it so your solution worked right away and carried on working forever?

If a problem is important enough to need solving, then it deserves not just any solution, but a good one. If you take your business at all seriously, you need not just a good solution, but the very best you can find. I can tell you right now: the best solution isn't the first one that pops into your head.

One solution, one idea, on its own, is worth nothing. One solution can't possibly solve your problem! Chances are, not only will it not fix your problem, it will throw up whole new ones, and you'll end up spending all your time solving problems of your own making. That's not good.

When you've got ten ideas, you're getting somewhere. By the time you've got a hundred, you're going to have found one or two golden nuggets. Those nuggets, when you know how to spot them, are the outstanding, world-class, hold-onto-your-hat ideas which can transform your business from ticking along in semi-emergency to turbo-powered success!

How long will it take you to come up with a hundred good ideas? About ten minutes! This one-day workshop will show you everything you need to know, at home, at work, or at play, to solve - to really solve - every problem you'll ever encounter!

The Commercialometer Workshop

Would you like to know whether your latest product or service is going to fly to new heights of success, or whether it is going to crash to earth like a sack of potatoes? You need The Commercialometer!

Wouldn't it be great if you had a crystal ball that could tell you, ahead of time, which products are destined to succeed, and which are doomed to failure? That could tell you which products can produce avalanches of money, and which will sink like a stone carrying your budgets or savings with them. Well, you can have it. It's right here. It's called the Commercialometer, and it takes about ten seconds to work!

Imagine how much time, money, and heartache you'd save if you knew ahead of time which products would fly by themselves, and which were going to bomb? Imagine how great it would be to only put effort into designing, developing, and marketing products or services which were cast-iron, watertight, guaranteed to make a profit. Would that be 60% saving, 80% saving, 95% saving? It might even save your whole business!

But it gets better: imagine how much more money you could make if you could turn any product, even the dead ducks, into highly-tuned profit-making engines, just by making a few, simple adjustments! The commercialometer will show you exactly how.

This one-day workshop will give you everything you need to start using this unique tool in your own life and business.

Taking the Lead Workshop

There are those who make it happen. There are those who watch it happen. And there are those who say "Hey - what happened?"

You hear it from every side: "Innovate or die". Your customers demand new products almost before the paint is dry on your old ones. If you pause for even a moment you'll get overtaken by faster, leaner, hungrier companies, and you'll be left eating their dust.

And yet, innovation is difficult, risky, and can kill off your company in a heartbeat if you get it wrong. Suddenly, for no reason, your development or marketing costs inflate. Suddenly, a new technology appears, which makes your work obsolete. Suddenly, an idea appears out of left-field which changes everything.

For your business to survive in the modern world, you must tame innovation, you must make it your servant. You need to understand what it can do for you, and what it can't. You need to understand when and how ideas and technologies get their value, and you need to understand how and why they're bought and sold. Most of all, you need to understand where the risk comes from, and how to neutralise it

In this exciting, two-day workshop, you'll discover everything you need to leapfrog your competition, quickly and safely, leaving them wondering "What happened?"

Overnight Success Workshop

Innovation is all about expansion! If you don't innovate quickly, you're not innovating at all!

Everyone dreams of overnight success. The company which is suddenly catapulted from survival into explosive growth is the stuff of legend.

The businesses that achieve this overnight success have two things in common. Firstly, they have a unique product or technology to exploit. Secondly, they are designed, from the very outset, to be high-growth, innovative companies. They know what they want to achieve, and they understand how to get there.

The truth is: overnight success doesn't just happen by accident, it happens through careful planning. This workshop will show you how different a high-growth company is from a conventional company, it will show you which business models to use, it will show you how to plan your growth and how to gather all the rewards you've earned.

By the end of this unique, one-day workshop you will know exactly how to transform your business into an explosive money-making machine!