Simplicity™
How to Uncomplicate Your Work Life

Simplify your life — the simplicity trend is sweeping our culture. People are hiring life coaches, space planners, and closet organizers. Downsizing possessions is liberating. Room is made to enjoy and embrace peace, beauty and harmony. Personal lives are transforming. Simplicity is powerful.

Work life can be very different. There are few things more frustrating than dealing with a cumbersome process which will not do what you need done. Tasks, systems, equipment, procedures, and processes are more complex than they need to be. This slows everything down. Money, time and effort are wasted. Value for customers is diminished. People describe work like being on a treadmill they can’t get off — with no end in sight. We can help you get off this destructive treadmill with targeted use of our Simplicity tool kit.

Develop Skilled Simplicity Facilitators

Simplicity is a custom tool kit designed for application teams who are tasked with streamlining the world of work as you know it today. A number of our lateral thinking tools have been refined to meet this specific business need. We will work with you to help select individuals to attend an intense training event. They will learn how to lead teams through the Simplicity process using creative techniques like: shredding, reframing, historical review, bulk-and-exceptions with the intention of shifting group thinking to a “challenge” mode. This process naturally leads to less complexity and more simplicity in work tasks, procedures, systems, and processes. The end result for your company is:

• Increases in bottom-line profit.

• Increases in top-line growth.

• More time to develop meaningful customer relationships.

• More time to work on what’s important to develop the business.

• A happier and more motivated workforce to set the benchmark for performance in your industry.

Four Ways You Can Learn Simplicity™: How to Uncomplicate Your Work Life

Attend a Simplicity Seminar

1. Have us lead a customized Simplicity Facilitator training event at your organization. Call 818-507-6055 for details. Develop your own expert team who will work with your internal clients.

2. Attend one of our public workshops. View our current dates, locations and registration details.

Become a Simplicity Certified Trainer

1. Have us lead a Simplicity instructor certification training event at your company. Develop a group of your own expert trainers that will train your internal clients. Call 818-507-6055 to discuss details.

2. Attend a public Simplicity instructor certification training event. View our current dates, locations and registration details.

Simplicity is Powerful

• Target launched (2005) a new prescription pill bottle that enables family members to identify their own prescriptions at a glance with a colored ring that slips around the neck of the bottle. No more taking the wrong pills by mistake. Yellow for mom, green for dad, blue for grandmother!

• A business development consultant prices his coaching service at the hourly rate his clients charge their clients — now he is affordable for all.

• A Country Club installs its own TV station to advertise current events for members. No need to distribute flyers, call for updates, times, locations, pricing, etc.

Our favorite Simplicity quotes:

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”— Leonardo Da Vinci

“Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein

“Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.” — Lin Yutang

“I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.” — Yves Saint Laurent

“What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.” — William Albert Allard

“Simplicity is the key to what I do.” — Lionel Richie

“85% of the impact is in the first 15% of the process.” — W. Edwards Deming

Simplicity Materials: attendees will always receive the official de Bono Thinking Systems, Inc. materials.

Simplicity Facilitator Candidates: OD/HR, Training, Facilitators, Six Sigma Black and Green Belt Facilitators, Project Managers, Team Leaders, Business Unit Leaders.

Our Instructors: de Bono for Business is different. Training is led by highly qualified business experts who understand the fast pace of work and rapid change driving business. Many are successful leaders of their own companies. This is what sets us apart from other training organizations — we live and breathe in the world of business — we understand it. We are results driven.

Book us to present or keynote at your conferences, team meetings and executive retreats.

Call 818-507-6055 or use our Inquiry Form to discuss the ways we can add value to your events by stimulating the thinking of your groups.