Creative Problem Solving & Innovative Thinking

What you'll learn:

Improving your Creativity

• Unlocking your creativity - like exercising a muscle
• Difference between creativity and innovation
• Breaking through your fears, doubts and assumptions
• Fixed verses growth mindsets - how do you approach failure?
• Using whole brain thinking for innovation
• Techniques for generating creative thinking - visualisation, speed thinking, etc.
• Allowing mistakes - and knowing which ones to keep
• The stages of innovation - where are your strengths?
• Power questions to create new ideas

Using the Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking

• Why current thinking is inadequate
• What limits our creativity - adversarial thinking vs. parallel thinking
• Creating a framework for thinking - powerful simplicity
• Directing your thinking and separating ego from performance
• Values and uses for the Six Thinking Hats
• Constructive rather than destructive argument
• White, Red, Yellow, Black, Green and Blue Hats
• Which sequence to use?
• Systematic vs. Occasional use of the Hats
• Solving problems by unorthodox or illogical methods
• Breaking old mindsets - the Random Word Technique
• Using the Concept Triangle to leverage creativity
• Harvesting ideas - how do you know it's a winner?
• Red Hat - what do you think of the De Bono Tools?
• Where can you use the concepts?

Who should attend:

This training is for managers, team leaders, project managers and anyone interested in enhancing creativity in their workplace.

Delivery format

• 3-hour interactive Zoom workshop – join details provided upon registration
• Participants need access to PC/Laptop with speakers, microphone and webcam