Creativity & Innovation

The recent significant progress in technology has increased our communication and reach and this has made the environment highly competitive. To survive in this competitive market, people need to do everything they can to stand out and win or risk falling to the bottom. It is now clear that those who innovate and use creativity in their roles in just about any job stand to succeed while those who don’t use all the resources at their disposal may be overrun by others.

Creativity is not something people are born with; it is a skill. Like any other skill it can be mastered and channelled towards specific goals with incredible results. This one-day course attempts to teach people how to be creative using specific set of tools and techniques. Significant research and studies have proven that such techniques will increase individual’s creativity.

Innovative organisations don’t rely on geniuses to create the next best product or service. Instead, they work hard to create an innovation-friendly environment that energises the staff and helps to bring the best out of everyone.

This carefully designed course contains several step-by-step guides to teach delegates how to increase their creativity. The workbook and the trainer notes contain everything a trainer needs to teach delegates about creativity. You can’t learn creativity unless you practice it. Extensive exercises with detailed instructions allow the tutor to guide and monitor the delegates in exercises based on the techniques discussed in the course. Optional exercises are also provided to train those delegates working within a team on creative brainstorming and problem solving.

In this highly practical course delegates will learn:

• What is creativity?
• What is innovation?
• What is the relationship between creativity and intelligence?
• What are the tenets of creativity?
• What is Mind Mapping Technique?
• What is Alternative Opposites Techniques?
• What are the 4 stages of creativity and how can you take advantage of knowing about them?
• What are the fundamental principles of creativity?
• What is Confirmation Bias?
• What is Patterned Thinking?
• How to avoid negative thinking
• What is Expanding Problems Technique?
• How to manage risk
• What kind of attitudes can kill creativity?
• How to ask questions
• What is Morphological Mind Mapping?
• What is Lateral Thinking?
• What is 5 Whys Technique?
• What is Six Thinking Hats?

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