Developing Creative & Innovative Skills for Business

About the Course

Many of us lose or have our innovative tendencies knocked out of us as we progress with our education and enter the world of business. We need a training experience that is lean, groundbreaking, engaging, and impactful. Leaders need to develop their innovative leadership skills and respond to the challenges that the external world throws at them. Never has this been truer than in the last two years as businesses have struggled to cope with the demands of a Covid world. 

Creative thinking is the psychological process of bringing something new into existence through imagination. Creative thinking skills will help individuals develop problem-solving skills, increase productivity, and enhance their ability to solve challenges more efficiently. During this training course, the delegates will acquire knowledge in various concepts related to creative and other thinking methods that will help them to embrace their knowledge and skills in leveraging thinking styles. 

Put simply, Creative thinking means ‘thinking differently’ or, in other words, it means thoughtfully approaching something from a new perspective. It’s a way of developing an original idea or overcoming a challenge – and that’s something that anyone can benefit from, whether you think of yourself as a creative person or not.

Core Objectives

The delegates will achieve the following objectives:

• Distinguish between creativity and innovation
• Introduce a creative problem-solving framework to give you a language and structure for leading creatively and managing the innovation process
• Develop the mindset of high performing creators and innovators
• Understand the different mindsets we have through the Behavioural Styles tool
• Learn how to generate, analyse, evaluate and implement creative and innovative ideas 
• Become an agile whole-brain thinker: Integrate right-brain imagination, Artistry and intuition with left-brain logic, Analysis and Planning
• Learn practical tools and techniques to unlock creativity in individuals and groups
• Create an idea-friendly environment that enhances creativity, innovation and collaboration

Training Approach

This training course is a mixture of lecture, video presentation, trainer-facilitated workshop exercises, and case study analysis organised through a Virtual Learning Platform anytime and anywhere.

The Attendees

This training course is a mixture of lecture, video presentation, trainer-facilitated workshop exercises, and case study analysis organised through a Virtual Learning Platform anytime and anywhere.

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

• Sales and Marketing Managers
• Project Managers who lead teams
• Finance, Legal or HR Managers
• Managers in the fields of Product Innovation, Development, or Engineering

Daily Discussion

DAY ONE: HOW WE TRADITIONALLY THINK

• Creativity & Innovation: The key difference
• Traditional ways of thinking and their limitations
• Key principles of effective Brainstorming
• Behavioural Styles tool and how it influences the way we innovate
• Bringing the environment around us as an influence

DAY TWO: NEW WAYS OF THINKING

• River Jumping: How to overcome the blocks?
• The 4 Rs to improve thinking
• Creative Mind Mapping
• How to think outside the box?
• Comfort zones and the importance of self-efficacy

DAY THREE: MARGINAL GAINS

• Working Smarter, not Harder
• Innovative Team Methods
• Marginal Gains
• Sky/Ineos Team Case Study
• Your Team Improvements