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CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES

INTERPERSONAL & SELF DEVELOPMENT

PROGRAMS

OVERVIEWGenius, Invention, Talent and, of course, creativity… These words describe the highest levels of human performance. When we’re engaged in the act of being creative, we feel we are performing at the peak of our abilities. Creative works give us insight and enrich our lives. Creativity is part of what makes us human. Although advanced “artificially intelligent” computer programs hold the world title in chess, and can crunch through mounds of data and identify patterns invisible to the human eye, they still cannot master everyday creative skills. “Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But, creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and spirit of adventure.” -- Stephen Covey

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CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES

KEY MODULES

• Creativity & Creative Thinking• Definition• Preparing To Be Creative• Analyzing Your Creativity• Increasing Creativity• Generating Creative Ideas• Fostering Creativity in the

Workplace

• Creativity Skills• Creative Fluency through

Brainstorms• Creative Flexibility through

Brainstorms• Creative Uniqueness through

Brainstorms

• Brainstorming Techniques for Testing, Assessing and Developing new ideas

• The Creative Team

• Creativity Blocks

• Innovation• The Concept of Innovation• The need for Paradigm Shifting.• Types of innovation• Does innovation mean new

products – Study• Johari Window – the Hidden

Potential

• Barriers to Creativity and Innovation

• Creativity Style Profile©

• Innovation Framework

• Creativity, Innovation and Invention

• Lateral Thinking

• Right and Left Brain

• “Positive Mind” – The Power of Positive Thinking

• Positive and Negative Vibes• I don’t believe in Defeat!• Expect the Best and Get It• Power to Solve Personal Problems

• Mind Mapping• Radiant thinking• How to draw a mind map• Mind maps application• Hands on experience on Mind

Mapping Software.

• A Bias for Action• Energy and Focus• Motivation and Willpower• The Three Traps of Non Action• Overwhelming Demands• Unbearable Constraints• Unexplored Choices• Unleashing Organizational Energy

for Collective Action• Comfort Zone• Resignation Zone• Corrosion Zone• Productive Zone

• Action Planning – Write Your Plan

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CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES

LEARNING OUTCOMES• Identify the stages of the creative process

• Recognize techniques that will enhance creativity

• Avoid personal and organizational factors that block creativity and innovation

• Develop creativity in different functions

• Develop more innovative organizational cultures

• Blend Right and Left Brain Thinking

• Acquire and apply the rules of thinking like the great inventors

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