Creative Thinking & Problem Solving

Intermediate

Fire your imagination to create and resolve

Course Code: VS18

Duration: 2 days

Overview

Creativity and problem-solving skills are recognised as essential after all, being different is a major source of competitive advantage. Our programme will provide you with creative thinking skills and techniques to help you to unlock your creativity and innovation and transform ideas into reality.

We provide practical problem-solving training, introducing creative thinking models and strategies that will challenge you and help you to review existing perspectives and consider alternative ways of working. They are particularly effective for individuals who want to build on strong logical thinking capabilities and analytical skills by being able to think laterally as well.

Who Should Attend

The programme is for B2B or B2C sales, marketing, strategy and product managers. It is particularly beneficial to those who are required to regularly solve management problems and create new opportunities for their business.

Benefits

Creative thinking drives the ability to imagine or invent something new, and is a powerful skill in the work context spanning the spectrum of 'brilliant ideas' to 'better ways of doing things'. It is closely linked to problem-solving. During the programme we will help you to develop your own abilities and support you to foster a creative, innovative, culture in your team.

You will further examine concepts and models used to stimulate creative thinking and frameworks for problem-solving and assess their applicability and usefulness to your work. For example you might look at the work of experts such as Covey and evaluate ideas such as ‘left and right brain thinking’, ‘six thinking hats’ and a ‘solution focus rather than a problem focus’.

Learning Outcomes

• Foster a culture that values, nurtures, and rewards creative solutions
• Implement a methodology that overcomes barriers to innovative thinking
• Reframe problems, making new connections, and challenging assumptions
• Use questions to brainstorm and solve business problems more effectively
• Generate, test, and enhance new ideas, strategies, and techniques
• Solve business problems and make better decisions through creative thinking
• Gain practical tools for incorporating creative thinking
• Harness your team’s collective abilities to produce innovative solutions
• Approach business challenges with greater confidence
• Learn how to implement and manage the creative process
• Solve problems using analysis and prioritisation tools
• Translate creativity and analysis into practical application
• Inspect outcome-based thinking