Drawing Multiple Shapes Out of One

Hi everyone,
I am building a marketing brochure, and I wanted to know if it were possible to make one shape into many using just inDesign. In the sample image, you can see the polygon includes multiple shapes from what appears to be a larger shape. The pen and rectangle tool can get some of the shapes, but the more cumbersome ones, i.e., such as a shape similar to the one below the "goals" text seem almost impossible to do with just the pen or rectangle tool.

See this quick video.
To make a rounded corner for one side hold down shift key then drag.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72277778/multiple%20shapes.mp4

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FIELDS TERMINATED BY ","
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You can check out a similar thread where the poster has opted to use imageicons instead of shapes. That thread is here.
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=15074&tstart=0.
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