Creative Problem Solving Training
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Training Benefits & Deliverables:
- Make better decisions through critical thinking and creative problem solving training
- Generate more creative ideas with creative problem solving training
- Learn and apply creative thinking techniques to problem solving
- Use tools and a structured process for solving problems
- Apply the creative problem solving process to other improvement areas
- Foster an innovative environment in your workplace with creative problem solving training
- Recognize and remove barriers to individual and group creativity
- Learn a simple process to first discern the root causes of a problem
- Use expansive thinking to generate a large array of ideas
- Create and then focus a team on a specific, shared problem definition
- Prioritize options more effectively with creative problem solving training
- Leverage your personal thinking preferences using cutting-edge tools and techniques
Course Outline:
I. Overcome Barriers to Creativity
- Organizational barriers to creativity
- Personal barriers to creativity
- Interpersonal barriers to creativity
- Technological barriers to creativity
- Organizational benefits of creativity
- Personal and professional benefits of creativity
II. Enhancing Organizational Creativity with Creative Problem Solving Training
- Characteristics of creative organizations
- Characteristics of creative individual problem solvers
- Defining creativity and initiative
- Rules of creativity on the job
- Creativity as a learned behavior at work
- Questioning techniques help people see the bigger picture
- The manager’s role in supporting creativity
III. Creative Problem Solving & Implementation
- The creative problem solving process
- Focus: Define, prioritize and analyze the problem
- Idea generation: Generating creative and useful ideas, approaches and solutions
- Decision making: Making the best possible decision
- Implementation: Ensure that solutions are implemented
- Roadmap of creative problem solving
- Problem solving goal setting
- Action planning for creative problem solving
- Establish the correct priorities
- Being a proactive change agent
- Improved listening and other communication skills
- Unleashing employee creativity
- Enhancing creative skills and behaviors
- Discovering individual creativity
- Establishing creativity role models
- Transform your creativity into practical business solutions
- Develop an individual action plan for improvement
- Develop your skills as a critical thinker and problem solver