Training Programmes - Innovating Suite
Creative Thinking Skills
The board of directors have just told you that the current economic climate means cutbacks. You have just been told that your budget has just been cut by 25%, you must reduce your head count by four people, and your sales target will remain the same. You ask how you can achieve your objectives with this reduction. The response the executive management team give you? "That’s why we employ you! Get creative."
The above scenario is something more and more people are facing in the current economic climate. So where do you start? How can you be creative? What does that mean? How can you get people to by into some of the creative ideas that you might come up with? Where to start?
This programme might be a good place to start. This programme will provide you with a starting point, as well as a range of immediate and powerful techniques for creating a large number of ideas and encouraging innovation in your company.
This programme is ideal for
Anybody who has had their budgets slashed and expected to deliver the goods! Anyone who is interested in unleashing their creative brain.
Programme deliverables
Participants will learn how to:
• Generate creative ideas
• Learn the key barriers that affect creative thinking
• Use practical and pragmatic tools for creative thinking
• Learn how to deal with ideas that might be rejected (because it's never been done that way before)
• Techniques for getting colleagues to engage it the innovation and creativity process
Content can include
In designing a programme for your organisation we would select from the following topics, depending upon the desired outcomes and duration of training: Content can include
• Learning and using new tools & techniques
• Blocks to creativity (& how to overcome these!)
• Styles of creative thinking
• Left Brain Techniques
• Right Brain Techniques
• Mind mapping
• How to analyse and prioritise your creative ideas
• How to manage rejection of your creative ideas
• How package your whacky ideas and make them more acceptable for a formal presentation
• Putting it all together: case studies & simulations
Additional Information
• This is an in-house programme
• Support workbook & pack available