CREATIVE THINKING TECHNIQUES

Overview

This course equips attendees with a practical, interactive approach to developing their own creativity and - equally important - teaches them how to unleash creativity in their colleagues. Delivered by experienced, creative consultants, who practise what they teach in organisations across all business sectors, the course ensures attendees understand the end-to-end innovation flow, and acquire a set of high-impact, creativity techniques, brought to life through real-life scenarios.

Duration

This is a 2 day course.

Prerequisites and evening study

The main pre-requisite for this course is that attendees come with an open mind and the willingness to try out new and exciting techniques. There may be some informal work on the evening of the first day of the course - but attendees will be creating this themselves!

Course Objectives

• Understand how creativity fits within the end-to-end innovation flow
• Use high-impact, creativity techniques
• Develop their own, new, creativity techniques
• Become more accomplished facilitators of groups of people who need to work together to solve problems or generate new ideas
• Assess, and build on, ideas in order to make sure they have the best chance of becoming reality
• Understand how to take new ideas through to reality within their organisations
• Use a set of time-saving templates to support all parts of the innovation and creativity flow

Who Should Attend

• Team Leaders
• Business and Change Consultants
• Facilitators
• Project and Programme Managers
• Business and Process Analysts

Course Content

What and where is Point C?
Why bother with innovation and creativity?
Innovation as a flow
How creative are you?
Creative warm-up activities and techniques
What and how to create the right environment for innovation and creativity
Making sure you solve the right problem
How and where to start mining for creative gold
Overview and description of the creativity techniques
Worked examples and demonstrations of the techniques
Application of the creative techniques to real-life scenarios
Activity review
How to build on early ideas
Deciding which ideas to take forward
How to ensure that ideas are implemented and deliver value to individuals and the organisation

Do you want:

• a training course run on your premises (reducing accommodation and travel fees)?
• a course written or tailored specifically for your staff?
• a standard course run just for your staff?

Do you have:

• four or more people to train?
• a definite time at which the training needs to be provided?

Then you're probably looking for "in-house" training.

We can run any of our standard courses just for you. If you require something special, or a combination of several courses, we can discuss this with you and tailor an event designed to meet your needs. These courses can be run at a time convenient to you, either on your premises or at a separate venue. The location can be specified by you or we can recommend a suitable venue if you prefer.

Need more help?

We can advise on combinations of training courses which typically prove the most effective. We can, if you wish, perform a full training needs analysis of your staff, to help you to identify training needs, and the programmes of training to put into place to meet both your current and future needs.

What to do next...

• Decide what you want from this training - what are your objectives?
• Decide which course(s) you need, or whether something tailored is required;
• Decide approximately when you would like the training to be run;
• Ascertain when your people can be available and how many people in total you need to train.

Then please contact us to discuss your needs.