An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Powerful Creative Thinking & Problem Solving
Developing Key Leadership Skills and Principles in the Workplace
Course Introduction
This Powerful Creative Thinking & Problem Solving training course will equip you with the essential knowledge, understanding and tools for powerful creative thinking. By end of this training course, you will learn to open your creative mind and use the powerful techniques to find new ways of creating, exploring and evaluating ideas that can truly add value to individuals, teams and your organization. This will be achieved through practical, innovative and leading-edge methods designed to develop your creativity, problem solving and decision-making process effectively and efficiently. This is essential development for those who want to develop their creativity further.
This Oxford Management Centre Powerful Creative Thinking & Problem Solving training course will feature:
- Understand the principles of creative thinking using the creative process
- Stimulate new ways of thinking within the business so as to create constant stream of fresh and original idea
- Use a toolkit of creative thinking techniques to generate, evaluate and select new ideas
- To understand the best practices in “Creative Thinking” techniques
- To ensure that problems and decision-making process to achieving solutions is effective and efficient
Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Have a greater understanding of your own creative thought process
- Increased ability to think on your feet when under pressure
- Increased confidence when dealing with external clients and stakeholders
- Enhanced skills in collaboration and co-creation
- Develop skills in adapting to change, resilience, risk taking and team thinking
- Increased creative and innovative behaviors
Training Methodology
This Powerful Creative Thinking & Problem Solving training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes highly interactive group and individual activities, case studies and active discussion, as well as relevant targeted videos. The instructor will facilitate learning by direct input and encourage delegates to test and critically appraise theories and concepts. How to apply the learning acquired on the training course and transfer this into the workplace will be an important aspect of the training
Who Should Attend?
This Oxford Management Centre Powerful Creative Thinking & Problem Solving training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit those who will be undertaking a role that will involve having to think creatively to solve problems and make decisions:
- Engineers / Technical
- Designers
- Marketing
- Managers
- Senior Managers
Course Outline
Day 1
Creating Creativity
- Understanding the Creative Mind
- Skills to Improve a Positive Mental Attitude
- The Difference Between Creativity and Innovation
- The Power of Visualization Techniques
- Creative Leadership Outlook
- Creative Leadership Main Characters
Day 2
The Power of Mind
- How to Create the Eureka Moment? – Open the Mind to Ideas
- Lateral Thinking – ‘Defining the Box’
- Out of the Box Thinking
- There is Always Another Way
- Don't Imitate, Start from where others Left-Off, and then Develop
- The Power of Silence
Day 3
Solution Focused Creativity
- Thinking Styles
- Divergent and Convergent Thinking
- Mind Mapping
- Brainstorming Technique
- 6-3-5 Brain Technique
Day 4
Problem-Solving Techniques
- Introduction to Problem-Solving
- Clearing the Clouds
- The Power of Questions – the Key to Unlock the Problem
- Overcoming Self-Imposed Problem Pressures
- Creative Problem-Solving Models and Strategies (SCAMPER)
- 5-WHYs Method
- Fish-Bone Technique
- Slow vs Fast Thinking
Day 5
Creative Decision-Making
- Importance of Decision Making
- Types of Decision Making
- Decision Matrix
- Decision Tree Analysis
- Group Thinking and Decision-Making
- GROW and the Solution Focus Technique
- Optimizing the Creative Models in the Workplace
- Continual Creative Thinking
Certificate
Oxford Management Centre Certificate will be provided to delegates who successfully completed the training course.
Accreditation
In association with
