Objectives
By the end of the Innovation & Creativity training course participants will have:
- A clear understanding of what Innovation is and how to apply it.
- Completed several practical exercises using different techniques. An understanding of which techniques suit which problems.
- An understanding how to choose the smartest solution.
Outlines
What is 'Innovation, Creativity and Thinking Outside the Box', and why should we use it?
- Gaining Business Advantage
- Saving Costs
- Improving Efficiencies
- Its Very Simple
- Its Very Fast
- Its Very Effective
- Its Fun Who really is Innovative and Creative?
- Artists?
- Architects?
- Songwriters?
- Clerks?
- Salespeople?
- Managers?
- Children?
- Lunatics? Why we are taught NOT to be creative.
- Stopping your brain from exploding!! …..Its just too complicated.(oh no its not!)
- Because its not part of my job! Why Should we be Innovative
- Because problems just keep happening.
- Because the Competition is.
- Because ‘Standing Still’ is a slow death.
- Because we can. Different Techniques for Different Problems
- Business Problems
- New Product Ideas
- Business Advantage
- Business Streamlining
- Everyday Ordinary Issues Practical Exercises
- Practical exercises using the different techniques.
- Individual and team working activities.
- Really Stretching your Talents. Generating a'Shortlist' of Ideas
- These techniques generate so many ideas, choosing a shortlist can be an effort in itself
- Techniques to decide which ones to investigate further. Selecting the 'Best' Idea for a given Problem
- Making Balanced Decisions
- Not ‘Wasting’ other ideas
- Picking the Idea with Greatest Impact and Easiest Implementation.
Who Should Attend
Anyone needing to use creativity and innovation in their work
- Anyone who faces challenges that cannot be addressed by conventional thinking alone .
- Anyone who wants to unleash their own creativity and that of others .
- Valuable for everyone, including people who want to augment strong logical and analytical thinking skills with the ability to think creatively .
- Managers as part of a management or leadership development program.