Highlights
There are learnable strategies and techniques to enhance your creative thinking powers
Often a certain recalibration of attitude helps to make ideas start popping
Objectives
- Recalibrating your mindset from stuck to open to possibilities
- Enhanced design and planning mechanisms for sticky work problems
Learning Tools
- Role plays, simulations, improvisation
- Self-examination, peer/trainer feedback
- Games, challenges
- Discussion, exchange
- Video clips
Take-aways
- Tools and exercises to activate and enhance the brain's capacity to invent new solutions
- Planning checklist to apply to future scenarios
Prerequisite
- Highly recommended: The Art of Useful Feedback; Brainstorming: Unlocking Your Creativity
Seminar Essentials
What it really means & Why and how to do it
- Focusing on results instead of prescribed processes
- “Can do!” vs. “It can’t be done”: adopting a mind-set for better business, team cohesion, and personal satisfaction
- Tips, tricks, tools, and techniques to get your creative juices flowing
Stepping outside your comfort zone
- Adopting a willingness to suspend / dispel disbelief or criticism of ideas for working purposes
- Engaging in proven activities and mind games that help you tone up your creative abilities
- Increased productivity and ability to deal with change and unexpected requests
Deep thinking & Unleashing your creative powers
- Different perspectives for better results
- One problem - multiple solutions
- Tapping into the strength-in-numbers maxim