Creative Thinking & Innovative Decision Making
| Customized Programs | Duration: 2 days |
Overview
This 2-day interactive workshop will show you how to enhance your creative thinking ability and to find faster, better and smarter solutions to business challenges and opportunities. It will show you thinking techniques you can load and run, like a software, to make better quality decisions and solve problems in a more creative and effective way.Objectives
Discover the insights and the thinking tools you need to improve your ability in problem-solving and decision-making.Learn how to improve team-thinking, for better and quicker problem-solving, decision-making, planning, communication and presentations.
Discover the insights, the creative tools, and the applications you need to improve your skills in: creative thinking and innovation, design, new product development, process improvement, team-thinking, communication and presentations.
Content
1. Software for the Mind- The fundamental processes underlying productive thinking – the “Owner’s Manual for the Mind”
- Thinking as a skill – maximizing your greatest asset
- Broadening fundamental awareness for better problem-solving and decision-making– why and how
- State-of-the-art methods and theories, including Thinking Hats, and Multiple-Intelligences
- The problem-solving process and stages
- The decision-making process and stages
- The A-B-C-D-E© Process – five stages of any complete thinking process; from Aim to Evaluate
- Problems and Opportunities – from reactive to proactive thinking
- Problem-finding and definition
- Conceptual tools for discovering and changing perceptions, considering factors, others’ views, consequences, generating alternatives, evaluating ideas, and making decisions
- Leading groups and teams to think more effectively in less time
- How to translate thinking into action: adapting problem-solving to your needs, and developing your own plan of action
2. “Sow Creativity – Reap Innovation”
- The fundamental process underlying creativity – the “Owner’s Manual for the Mind”.
- Four “MythTakes” of creativity
- State-of-the-art methods and theories, including Thinking Hats, Mind-mapping, and Multiple-Intelligences
- Bypassing the “Immune System of the Mind”
- The 10 blocks that stop individuals and organizations from having new ideas- and how to overcome them
- Your own right-brain / left-brain profile
- Seven rules for effective brainstorming
- The different types of thinking processes, including “right-brain and left-brain” thinking – and when to use each
- How logical and creative thinking enhance each other
- Methods and techniques for broadening awareness and thinking “out of the box”
- Conceptual tools for discovering and changing perceptions, challenging assumptions, and generating alternatives
- How to use teams effectively in creative problem-solving
- How to translate thinking into action: adapting creativity to your needs, implementing new solutions, and developing your own plan of action
- Turning creativity into productive innovation in the work place
