( A Two day Workshop on Creative Problem Solving )
CREATIVITY, the ability to conceive and develop new ideas for practical application in daily life is becoming increasingly important in today's highly competitive environment. Businesses cannot survive unless they learn to become creative. The business culture has to be conducive for creative thinking and for providing new solutions for problems.
The new mantra for leaders is not only to become creative themselves but also to encourage and develop creativity amongst the team members. The main focus of this workshop will be to help the participants to let go of the rigid mindsets and make them look at things from a new perspective / view points for innovative solutions.
Scientific research has proved that creativity is not the gifted few. It is for all. Anyone can learn to be creative, for everyone has the creative urge within.
The workshop will bring out the creative potential inherent in each person, show the limitations of Logical thinking and the limitless options of Creative thinking for problem solving. It will also focus on the creative strengths of teams and creative problem solving with practical applications.
| S.No | Enabling Objective | Content |
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| 1 | Introduction and setting of objectives | Frame setting and describing Methodologies and objectives |
| 2 | Understanding Creative thinking | Becoming aware of conditioned thinking and it's pitfalls,understanding creative thinking through creaative puzzles and case studies |
| 3 | Creative thinking and critical thinking : the differences and functional us | Comparing and contrasting creative and critical thinking |
| 4 | Efficiency vs effectiveness | Understanding efficiency and how it is different from effectiveness |
| 5 | Being creative and problem definition | Handling a group challenge activity and achieving the objective |
| 6 | Steps to problem solving | The five steps of problem solving |
| 7 | Steps to personal creativity | The basic elements of the creative process |
| 8 | Practical steps for being creative | Come out of the herd mentality Latch on to existing ideas with a new intent Change the way you look at things Keep on trying new things. |
| 9 | Functional problems and behavioral problems | Collecting one functional problem from each participant, at the work place,to come out with creative solutions in the course of the program |
| 10 | The five why method | Root cause analysis |
| 11 | The fish bone method | Getting an overall view of the problem state |
| 12 | Mind mapping | Using creativity to generate solutions |
| 13 | The right and left brains | Understanding the logic of the left brain and the creativity of the right brain |
| 14 | Thinking styles | Understanding the usage of different styles of thinking |
| 15 | Associative thinking | Focusing on similarities to generate new platforms for creation |
| 16 | Possibility thinking | Moving away from structured thinking to generate new possibilities |
| 17 | Lateral thinking | Parallel processing of data to come out with new solutions |
| 18 | Provocative thinking | To focus on " What if " thinking to break the limiting barriers |
| 19 | Random thinking | Focus on a random starting point to remove conditioning and come out with new approaches |
| 20 | Planning Function | The mind concept of planning |
| 21 | Egg drop game | Using the learnings to find a solution for a challenge |
| 22 | Conclusions and action plan | Summarising of the learnings8:00 AM - 9:00 AM |
