Creative Problem Solving Training

Problem-solving experts recommend the use of specific problem solving models or the systematic approach to create solutions more efficiently, smoothly and quickly.

This Creative Problem Solving workshop teaches you the steps, tools and skills needed to implement a creative and systematic problem solving process.

The Creative Problem Solving training course teaches you the entire problem solving process - from identification of the problem to the implementation of the selected solutions, the various tools for data gathering, data analysis, evaluating potential solutions and selection of solutions to implement, how to identify improvements after the implementation and much more.

This comprehensive and valuable training course is now available across the U.S., including Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Jackson, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Miami, Orlando, New York, Philadelphia, San Antonio and Seattle.

Your Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will:

• Have a greater understanding of problems & the creative problem solving process

• Learn what types of information to gather with some key questions

• Use four different problem definition tools

• Learn to write concrete problem statements

• Master idea generating tools like affinity diagrams, word chaining, the box method, the Looking through a different Lens & the blink method

• Learn to evaluate potential solutions against specific criteria like a cost/benefit analysis or group voting

• Learn to perform a final analysis and selecting a solution

• Gain insight into the roles that facts & intuition play in selecting a solution

• Understand the why's & how's of refining & re-refining a shortlist

• Learn how to identify the tasks & resources necessary to implement a solution

• Understand how to evaluate & adapt solutions to reality

• Learn to utilize follow-up to celebrate successes & identify improvements