About the Course

No one can deny that creativity and innovation are fundamental elements of success for a business. Most successful businesses develop a Culture of Creativity and Innovation.

In today’s world, creativity and innovation are more important than ever before with the rapidly changing global systems. If you do not constantly be creative and innovate, someone else will overtake the industry and you will run behind schedule. To be useful and efficient in any business requires employees to have creativity and innovation skills. Developing a business’s creative thinking and innovation can lead to enhanced efficiency, constant improvements, develop business ideas, and improvise the quality of current processes for swifter output in business services.

What is Creativity? And how can you improve your Creative Skills? Creativity is what drives ideas through distinct thinking of individuals which opens the doors to new opportunities in and round them. It is the ability to adopt new processes which results in more efficient production or develop a new product or a new service.

Your innovation and creativity will separate you from the others. Skills of putting your creativity to work make you Innovative. Creative thinking skills and problem-solving techniques can be developed and learned, and the most innovative companies run regular training programmes to develop these skills among their employees.

Through this 5-day interactive Best Practices in Innovation training course, the delegates will better on their competencies and knowledge so that they are well positioned to take a lead in business opportunities offered by the fast transforming world.

Core Objectives

This training course will provide delegates with competencies and knowledge, so that they will be able to come up with fresh ideas, adapt and show flexibility, and take a lead in business opportunities offered by the fast transforming world.

The delegates will achieve the following objectives:

• Define Creativity and Innovation
• Understand the use of imaginative ideas and convert it into strategies
• Acquire inspiration and self-confidence
• Know the Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivators
• Acquire on how to ‘gamify’ your ideas
• Overcome mental blocks towards difficult situations
• Eliminate Procrastination by creative thinking
• Know how to remove the fear of failure from your minds

Training Approach

This training course is very interactive as delegates from all backgrounds participate in this programme and share their own thoughts, ideas, and experiences and tasks, and it involves discussions, activities, case studies, videos, and role-plays.

The Attendees

Individuals looking to become more pro-active and productive in their lives and workplace. Business thinkers, strategists, innovators, planners, top management, managers, supervisors, consultants, executives and officers would require these practical sessions to improve their skills.

Every individual looking to think out-of-the-box and contribute to a growing business or community must undergo this training program in Creative thinking and Innovation.

Likewise, it will be valuable to the professionals but not limited to the following:

• Strategists
• Managers
• Planners
• Supervisors
• Team Leaders
• Administrators
• All Staff Members

Daily Discussion

DAY ONE: WHAT IS CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION? 

• Thinking Differently: What is Creativity?
• Acting Differently: What is Innovation?
• Problem Solving Skills
• Imagination and Motivation
• Creating Ideas Out of Resources Available
• Developing Creativity Skills
• Getting and Drawing Inspiration
• Removing the Mental Block
• Overcoming Fear of Failure
• Skills that Inspire Skills

DAY TWO: HOW TO DEVELOP INNOVATIVE SKILLS?

• Developing Innovative Skills
• Developing Strategies for Creative Ideas
• Thrashing Out Procrastination
• Purging Excessive Clutter
• Deleting Self-imposed Limitations
• Building on Successes Step by Step
• Starting From the End
• Foundations for the Beginning

DAY THREE: INNOVATORS’ ATTITUDES AND MINDSET

• Having an Open Mindset
• Being Critical and Judgmental
• Positivity of a Positive Mind
• Critical Questioning
• Problem-solving Questions
• Analysis and Evaluation
• Associating with the Right People Groups
• Maintaining a Thought Journal
• Assumptions and Being Practical
• Creativity and Confidence 

DAY FOUR: RISK TAKING AND STEPS TO SUCCESS

• Risk-taking
• Steps to Success
• Fake It Till You Make It
• Handling Criticisms and Discouragement
• Believing in Yourself and Your Goals
• Environmental Factors in Innovation
• Implementing Creativity and Innovation at Work
• Using Innovation to Climb Up the Ladder
• Self-discipline and Focus
• Challenges and How to Overcome Them

DAY FIVE: BEST PRACTICES IN INNOVATION

• Corporate and Group Creativity
• Having an Effective Meeting and Contributing Ideas
• Brainstorming and Gathering Collective Ideas
• Mind Mapping
• Visualisation
• Organising and Bringing Ideas Together to Work
• Project Implementation and Management for Innovation