DEVELOPING BREAKTHROUGH IN PRACTICAL CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION FOR LEADERS AND MANAGERS

• An understanding of why some people are naturally creative, but also how everyone can develop their creative skills.
• Knowledge of how to use a range of creative thinking tools and techniques to generate ideas and solve problems.
• Break-through thinking patterns to generate new practical ideas
• Constructively challenge your organization’s current thinking strategy
• Turn problems and issues into real opportunities.
• The opportunity to apply the practical methods and tools to generate ideas for improving areas of their own work.

COURSE CONTENT

Benefits of using a creative approach

• Facilitator presentation, participant personal introductions and ice breaker
• Defining creativity & innovation
• Understanding the cycle of innovation
• Facilitator presentation and group exercise

Breaking through thought patterns and assumptions

• Recognizing left and right brain thinking
• Identifying how creative we are
• Individual creative thinking exercise, group review and self assessment questionnaire

Enabling and developing creativity

• Advance easy-to-use techniques to develop creativity
• Identifying ways to further develop creative thinking
• Individual practical exercises and group review

Analyzing and looking around the problem

• Solving business problems
• Force-Field Analysis
• Facilitator presentation, group exercises with review and discussion

Creating innovative ideas

• Managed brainstorming – Nominal Group Technique
• Reversed brainstorming
• Role playing
• Forcing associations
• Charette technique
• Three mindsets
• SCAMPER
• Facilitator demonstration of techniques, small group exercise

Selecting appropriate solutions

• The Impact-Ability Matrix
• Facilitator demonstration of technique, small group exercise

Ensuring the right solution

• Reverse Ishikawa diagram
• Facilitator demonstration of technique, small group exercise

Next steps

• Review of learning
• Course feedback