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Creativity and innovation course

12 November, 2012
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Improve innovation and creative thinking in your workplace.

Generate new perspectives and ideas, solve real problems and enhance decision making and team working

Course Objectives

By the end of the one day training course, the participants will have:

• Better ability to generate innovative ideas
• Better ability to view an issue from different perspectives
• Better retention of innovative or spontaneous ideas
• Better ability to turn an innovative idea into actions
• Better ability to think laterally
• Better ability to collaborate with others in generating innovative ideas and solutions

Course Outline

Introduction & Benefits of using a creative approach

• The limits of traditional thinking
• How the brain works
• Using the whole brain
• The benefits of innovative thinking

Recognising the difference between creativity & innovation
• Understanding the Principles of creativity and innovation
• Challenging of assumptions
• Generation of alternatives
• Suspension of judgment

Creating the future
• Creative our own future
• The power of visualization
• Visualization exercise

Generating alternatives: Some lateral thinking techniques
• Brainstorming
• Restructuring
• Reversals
• Random stimulation

Capturing ideas and relationships
• Mind-mapping
• Capturing spontaneous ideas from meetings without side-tracking:
• Setting up of a “parking lot”
• Pluses, minuses, and interesting

Turning ideas into actions
• Modeling after the best
• The Disney Strategy

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