Creative Thinking and Innovation Techniques
5 DaysCreative Thinking and Innovation Techniques
Course Methodology
This course uses various interactive methods, such as self-awareness tests, exercises using newly learned creative techniques, games, lateral thinking exercises, puzzles, case studies, and video clips with in-depth discussions.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Analyze and contrast the fundamental concepts of invention, creativity, and innovation
- Assess their potential for creativity and innovation and increase their creativity power
- Discover how to apply creative thinking in work-related situations and foster organizational creativity enablers
- Practice a variety of creative thinking tools and techniques
- Examine the barriers to creative problem-solving and decision-making
Target Audience
This course will benefit supervisors, managers, team and project leaders, and all individuals who need to adopt a more creative approach in life or at work, solve problems, develop new initiatives, initiate and introduce changes, or deal with personal or organizational issues unconventionally. It will also benefit anyone interested in recognizing and developing their or a group's creative potential.
Target Competencies
- Thinking creatively
- Being flexible
- Creating an innovative workplace
- Persistence thinking
- Applying innovation
- Analyzing problems and situations
Course Outline
- Defining Invention, Innovation, and Creativity
- Invention, innovation, and creativity
- Pillars of creativity
- Creativity versus madness and intelligence
- Nine Types of Intelligence
- Best places and times to create ideas
- Creativity and civilization
- Assessing Your Creativity
- Understanding the two hemispheres of the brain
- Evaluate your potential for creativity: The brain indicator
- The whole brain theory
- Mental barriers to creativity and ways to overcome them
- Ten attitudes that kill creative ideas
- Creative thinkers' traits
- Creativity as a Business Tool
- Three enablers of creativity
- Factors influencing individual creativity in an organization
- Organizational barriers to innovation
- Building a creative and innovative organizational culture
- The cases of Google and 3M
- The five classical creative methods
- Critical thinking versus creative thinking
- Creative Thinking Tools and Techniques
- Theories of creativity
- Creativity tools
- Lateral thinking and applications
- Thinking hats for creative problem-solving
- SCAMPER
- Biotechniques in creativity
- Picture associations
- Mind mapping
- TRIZ
- The power of opposite thinking
- Barriers to Creative Problem-Solving and Decision-Making
- Stages in problem-solving and decision-making
- Anatomy of a problem
- Creative problem-solving steps
- Barriers to decision-making
- Creative problem-solving tips
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