Creative Thinking Training
Boost idea generation and creativity in the workplace, with this one-day course
Creativity and Innovation Course
Improve innovation and develop creative thinking in your workplace.
An inspirational one-day creativity and innovation training course to develop creative thinking – for managers and work teams. Also available as a ‘bite-size’ virtual course, run collaboratively via Microsoft Teams or Zoom.
- 1 day course
- Download course PDF
- +44 (0) 1635 890450
To provide managers and specialists with a range of simple creative thinking techniques that they can use to generate ideas and solve problems at work. Real life work problems and opportunities can also be built into the training, to help generate some ideas and potential solutions that can be implemented at work.
Suitable for business teams, this course is designed to help enhance creativity and promote the generation of innovative ideas.
By the end of this creativity and innovation training, the participants will have:
- An understanding of why some people are naturally creative, but also how everyone can develop their creative skills.
- Knowledge of how to use a range of creative thinking tools and techniques to generate ideas and solve problems.
- The opportunity to apply the methods and tools to generate ideas for improving areas of their own work.
Benefits of using a creative approach
- Facilitator presentation, participant personal introductions and ice breaker
Defining creativity & innovation
- Understanding the cycle of innovation
- Facilitator presentation and group exercise
Breaking through thought patterns and assumptions
- Recognising left and right brain thinking
- Identifying how creative we are
- Individual creative thinking exercise, group review and self assessment questionnaire
Enabling and developing creativity
- Simple techniques to develop creativity
- Identifying ways to further develop creative thinking
- Individual practical exercises and group review
Analysing and looking around the problem
- Solving business problems
- STACK and STEEPLE techniques
- Facilitator presentation, group exercises with review and discussion
Creating innovative ideas
- Managed brainstorming
- Reversed brainstorming
- Role playing
- Forcing associations
- Charette technique
- Three mindsets
- SCAMPER
- Facilitator demonstration of techniques, small group exercise
Selecting appropriate solutions
- The Impact-Ability Matrix
- Facilitator demonstration of technique, small group exercise
Ensuring the right solution
- Reverse Ishikawa diagram
- Facilitator demonstration of technique, small group exercise
Next steps
- Review of learning
- Course feedback
The training will be supported with:
- Participant pre-course video and mini case study
- A participant journal with tips, techniques and space for personal notes. For a sustainable solution, we offer editable journals for online use
- Participant and Manager Coaching Guide to help embed the learning
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Testimonials from previous attendees
The trainer was very engaging and made you think of new and different ways to be creative.
The trainer was excellent, kept us all engaged throughout the day. The content of the course was relevant, and we were given many different ways to implement Creative Thinking in our day to day roles. I will definitely be using some of them with my team to improve a number of the tasks we currently do.
Excellent. New techniques for creativity.
Excellent. Great workshop to give some other perspectives looking for new ideas.
Really engaging and fun – exactly what you want from a course on creativity.
Really insightful and enjoyable. Good balance of theory and exercises.
I thought the course was run brilliantly! Very interactive and everyone got involved.
Excellent training – enjoyed the format of the course. 100% interactive. Takeaways include brainstorming, negative brainstorming, and SOCS.
Very enjoyable and I learnt new techniques which I will be able to apply day to day.
Fun, enabled me to think of new ways to create ideas.
Ann pushed us into achieving far more than we thought possible and has left us with tools and skills we didn’t know we had.
Enjoyed the day – developed a way of harnessing creative thinking in a workable process.