The Course Suits

Any business professionals who wishes to learn how to be more creative & innovative

Training Benefits

Creativity is all about developing new perspectives, generating new ideas and solving practical problems. This is why creativity is essential for organisations who need to achieve and maintain a competitive edge - creativity isn't just relevant; it's essential. During the day the participants will be given the opportunity to apply one or more of the proven creative and innovative thinking process to live work-related challenges. Each participant will: • enhance their problem solving skills. • use logical and analytical thinking to generate creative ideas • boost their self confidence when tackling difficult challenges • use of a variety of proven creative techniques developed by Tony Buzan and Edward DeBono two of the greatest modern creative thinkers

Course Timetable

09:30 - 09:45 Coffee & course and individual objectives

09:45 - 10:00 How creative are you? – a self analysis

10:00 – 10:15 Setting the right climate for creative thinking Using colour, music, toys, powerful questions and energy to strip away the limitations people impose upon themselves.

10.15 – 10.30 The fastest way to overcome any fear of change.

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 11:30 Getting the creative muscles working A series of three simple exercises designed to stretch the imagination, think outside of the box and stimulate innovative thinking • Childs play • The 3rd party perspective – an alien! • Outrageous opposites

11: 30 – 12:30 Creativity for logical thinkers. Two systems each of which uses a step-by-step analytical thinking process to generate creative ideas. • The 3X3X3 matrix • The morphological matrix

12:30 – 13:15 Lunch

13.15 – 14.15 Thinking in groups Three proven techniques for creative thinking in groups • Brainstorming the ‘right way’ • Mind maps • Building blocks

14:15 – 14.30 Break

14:30 – 15 :30 The 6 Thinking Hats "Six Thinking Hats" is a powerful technique that helps you look at important decisions from a number of different perspectives. It helps you make better decisions by pushing you to move outside your habitual ways of thinking. As such, it helps you understand the full complexity of a decision and spot issues and opportunities which you might otherwise not notice.

16:00 - 16:20 Preparing a personal action plan. Each participant creates a list of actions to apply the principles taught on the course to their own situation. Attention is paid to preparing and planning how to use one or more of the creative and innovative thinking processes to live challenges back at work.

16:20 : Course review and close

16:30 Close