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Creativity
Training
Programme Outline
Theme
To
know a lot is not enough. To be a flexible and open thinker is not enough.
You need to know a lot and be an open and creative thinker. This gives
you and your organisation an edge which is hard, if not impossible,
for competitors to easily imitate.
The programme will explore how to enable individuals and teams to think more creatively and effectively. You will become a world class creativity trainer and facilitator.
Objective
- To skill participants in a range of creativity and decision making techniques that they can subsequently use to facilitate creativity sessions and meetings back at work.
Programme
content
Through
lecture, video, discussion and roundtable discussions and engaging practice
and debrief sessions, delegates will acquire a full grasp of a range
of thinking techniques.
The Ideas into Action Process
- Understanding how we create our worlds - that our world is our world and not the world.
- Understanding the creative/ideas into action process - analysis, goal setting, idea generation, growing and selecting winning ideas, making them happen.
- Ideas into Action video.
- Understanding your own thinking preferences - Kolb’s Learning Styles Inventory. Do you prefer ‘blue sky’/divergent, ‘red’/analytical, ‘green’/action-focused thinking? The importance of all three.
- Looking at different
organisations’ idea into action profile.
Goal Setting
- Problem framing, reframing and opportunity search.
Practice session.
Idea Generation Techniques/Process
- Creative facilitation skills.
Setting a creative climate - warm up exercises.
‘Yes...but’ balls .
1-D, 2-D and 3-D thinking.
- Force field analysis.
Practice session.
- Conventional brainstorming and variations. Overcoming production blocking and ‘group think’.
Practice session.
- Creative checklists.
- Practice session.
- Morphological analysis.
- Practice session.
- Computer aided creativity.
- Understanding your creative preference. Do you prefer evolutionary or revolutionary creativity? The importance of both. How to communicate to the different styles.
- Random links.
Practice session.
- Rent an Idea.
Practice session.
Selecting Winning Ideas
‘Yes...but...and’ balls.
Decision making techniques.
Action
- ‘Rigid digit’ balls.
- Selling ideas - winning the hearts and minds of other people.
- The Green Movie - the best way to predict the future is to create the future.
Coaching for a ‘can do’/success profile.
Programme
duration
3
days
Programme
location
Preferably
off-site and residential
More information
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