Overview
Creativity at work is all about developing new perspectives, generating new ideas and solving practical problems. This is why creativity is essential for organisations who need to achieve and maintain a competitive edge. Knowing how to generate new ideas consistently and inject new thinking, will benefit the development of any organisation - creativity isn't just relevant; it's essential.
The workshop provides a unique introduction to how the creative process works. Organisations and individuals are encouraged to bring along real life situations which are tackled by a broad range of practical creative techniques which can be used in the workplace.
This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.
Audience
- Anyone who faces challenges that cannot be addressed by conventional thinking alone
- Anyone who wants to unleash their own creativity and that of others
- Valuable for everyone, including people who want to augment strong logical and analytical thinking skills with the ability to think creatively
Skills Gained
Creativity for Logical Thinkers will maximise the return on your training investment, by combining creative thinking skills training with the opportunity for team building.
- Enhance problem solving skills
- Augment strong logical and analytical thinking with techniques to improve creative thinking
- Individual coaching by the course facilitator on how to use techniques in the workplace - individually and when facilitating others
- Confidence booster, being able to have faith in your own ideas so they are easily expressed
- Learn how to use Mind Maps to extract concepts and multiply the number of ideas you generate
- Gain a number of practical tools to support creativity in the workplace
- Improves team working, enhances motivation and provides greater job satisfaction
Course Outline
The emphasis is on learning creativity techniques that have practical applications, with a clear understanding of how the creative process works.
The need for fresh thinking
- Learn why it is essential for individuals and organisations to be more creative. Understand what type of thinker you are so you can develop your own personal creativity and help others access theirs
The creative process
- Discover why creativity is so important in today's competitive industry and understand how to develop your ideas by using Illumine's creative process model
Creativity techniques
- Learn a range of practical and easy to use techniques for idea generating, problem solving and evaluation. You will gather a tool box that includes Mind Mapping, situation/solution reversal, SCAMMPERR, analogies and other thinking and creativity approaches that are proven to revolutionise, save time, money and reach decisions quickly
Running sessions and harvesting ideas
- Discover how to gain the confidence to facilitate your own creativity sessions, making sure that all the ideas in your organisation are generated, captured and effectively evaluated
The training course outline shown above is a standardised version representing all
the dates shown and may vary from the course you attend. You will be sent the actual
course outline when you enquire about a specific date.