Innovative & Creative Thinking

~ 2 day in-house course

Ignite your creativity!
A series of fast, impactful 90 minute training modules in
creativity and innovation
 
   
 
   
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Just imagine...your business launches a BIG idea and YOU were the person or team who came up with that idea and made it happen!

 

This highly practical course gives you all the tools and techniques to be able to come up with the idea and turn it into reality!

The two-day Innovative & Creative Thinking training course is designed to teach you our unique whole-brain creativity and innovation process. You will discover your personal creative thinking style, learn how to put together a dynamic and peak performing creative team, generate creative ideas using a tool-kit of practical creative thinking techniques, evaluate and select ideas, ‘sell’ those ideas internally and/or externally in order to gain the buy-in and commitment of others and transform ideas in practical initiatives.

 

See below for more details

   
 

 

 

Key Outcomes

1 To stimulate new ways of thinking within the business so as to create a constant stream of fresh and original ideas
   
1 To learn and apply practical creative problem solving techniques in order to generate new and original solutions
   
1 To learn how to pitch your ideas to others so as to gain their support and commitment to the project
   
1 To discover how to overcome the limiting mind-sets within the business which may 'kill' your idea
   
1 To use the six-step Innovation process to fast-track your idea through the innovation process from conception to implementation
 

 

 

Key Benefits

Know how to generate, evaluate and select ideas
   
Act on your ideas and make them happen
   
Have the confidence to contribute your ideas and know that you can overcome any obstacles that threaten to kill your ideas
   
    To apply a structured innovation process to generate, evaluate, select and implement new ideas
   


 

 

Recommended
Books

 
mind maps at work, tony buzan

This book presents 1001 tools and techniques for creating ideas and solving problems

 

   
mind maps at work, tony buzan

This is a pack of cards which will stimulate your brain to create new ideas and solutions

 

   

 

 
Workshop Agenda
 

Thinking About Thinking

 

The course starts with an introductory session which aims to unlock the team spirit and inspire learning and development. You will participate in a fun challenge that is designed to get you thinking about how you think! As you explore your creative brain, you will discover what makes you ‘tick’ and identify your personal creative thinking style

 

Creative Insight

 

This session focuses on identifying the need for creativity and gives the delegates a framework for defining the creative brief. Using the whole brain creative model, you will design the creative process to direct the project.

 

Creative Ideation

 

During this session, you will learn how to activate your personal creative ‘hot buttons’ using a toolkit of creative thinking techniques, each designed to tap into your unique creative brainpower. Using these thinking tools, you will generate creative new ideas and solutions in response to the creative brief. This will involve working in small groups and individually. You will also learn how to evaluate ideas in order to select the best ideas to progress.

 

Communicating Ideas

 

The aim of this session is to explore how to successfully present your ideas to others. You will learn tools and techniques to 'sell' your ideas to others and prepare a ‘pitch’ presentation to present to the group.

 

Innovation

 

This session focuses on how to progress an idea from concept to implementation. You will learn a practical 6-step innovation process to transform an idea into a practical business initiative. You will use a simple tool to physically map out the idea as a blueprint for its implementation.

 

Applied Creativity

 

The course concludes with a summary session during which delegates create a personal storyboard to show how they will apply the key insights and learning’s from the course within the work environment

 

 

 

How to Book

 

Call us on +44 1483 243624 to discuss your requirements
   
Email us with your request including your preferred dates and number of participants and we will contact you to discuss your requirements
   
Complete our enquiry form and we will contact you to discuss your requirements

 

 

Who Should Attend?

Anyone who has a need for new ideas and wants to convince the business to make them happen

 

 

 

Workshop Style

 

Hands-on and highly practical
   
Individual creative tasks
   
Group creative activities
   
Briefing and participative discussions
 

 

 

What Clients Think

"Jayne, we all really benefited from this course and it will certainly help us to fast-track our ideas through the business. Thank you for a great two days."
 
Director, Manufacturing

 

 

 
"I hope having done the evaluation like this you can see just how positive the feedback is about this event. The last two days will have been an enormous piece of learning for them. Even as a naturally creative person, highly receptive to learning, I've found my brain processing everything furiously over the last two nights and my personal evaluation is still going on. I really enjoyed working with you over the last two days too. The quality of your work and how you've analysed the evaluation is excellent and has exceeded my expectations so thank you very much indeed. "
 
Business Consultant, A4e