Introduction
Change, and the rapid acceleration of change, imposes on today’s business a strident new imperative – to use and value every scrap of creative and innovative potential in each person on the team. The good news is that there is a huge, as yet untapped, creative resource in almost everyone.
This programme shows how to find it, use it and nurture it.
Learning Outcomes
After the training the participants will be able to:
Recognise where creative and innovative thinking is both required and appropriate.
Engage and develop their creative thinking abilities.
Establish and apply innvative approaches to their work activities.
Identify what holds them back from achieving their full creative & innovative potential.
Generate ideas to deal with business challenges.
Deal with problems more effectively in terms of both results and time.
Facilitate creative & innovative thinking in others.
Apply their new / enhanced abilities to ‘live’ business issues.
Programme Content
What is creativity? What is innovation? What are their benefits?
When are creativity & innovation appropriate? …. And when are they not!
Different ways of thinking for different situations.
Using creative & innovative thinking to provide alternative solutions to recurring problems.
Strategies for creative thinking.
Modelling creativity & innovation in others.
Setting specific goals for creativity & innovation.
Establishing resourceful states (of mind).
The power of beliefs.
Different levels of thinking.
Left-brain / Right-brain – natural preferences and developing alternatives.
Conscious and unconscious thinking.
Processing ‘live’ business issues the participants are currently dealing with.
