Creativity and Innovation

Course Objective

• Offer a new way of thinking through foster intuition, innovation, imagination and inspirational. 
• Discover the innovative potential in themselves and others. 
• Understand and apply the four stages of creative thinking to their fullest potential. 
• Acquire high range of ideas and techniques to help them think differently. 
• Apply divergent and convergent thinking during creative idea generation process. 
• Able to shape on a bigger picture by avoiding fixed pattern of perception. 
• Understand the interesting metaphors that would help them solve complex issues. 
• Apply the techniques for generating and capturing new ideas through lateral thinking process. 
• Combine creative thinking with routine activities and keep the flow of new ideas coming. 
• Break out of habitual of fixed thinking patterns by tapping into the hidden creative potential. 
• Unleash creativity to support continuous workplace improvement and efficiency. 
• Apply creative metaphors and different creative tools in their daily work context.

Target audience

• Executives
• Supervisors
• Team Leaders
• Department Heads
• Managers

Creative Potential Profile

• Finding Our Creative Intelligence
• Intuitive
• Innovative
• Imaginative
• Inspirational
• General intelligence vs creative intelligence

Creative Thinking: It’s so simple but we all do it differently

• Getting the same wavelength
• Avoiding conceptual block
• Convergent and divergent thinking
• Lateral thinking structure
• Cultural structure that reinforce convergent thinking
• Arriving is not the point – it’s the journey
• Intellectual mobility

Attitude toward Creativity

• An attitude ‘not invented here’, attitude take from everywhere
• Going out to find something new
• A process of discovery
• Uncovering or bring to light
• Finding Out the Thing
• Finding out thing that society hasn’t found yet
• Value adding the thing that has been found

Nurturing Your Creativity and Innovation Power

• How creative are you?
• A shift in paradigm for creativity
• Split brain theory
• Creativity through value adding

The Creative Tools for Successful Innovation

• Restructuring
• Morphological approach
• Forced relationship
• Using Analogy
• Discontinuity approach
• Telling lies: assumption buster
• Value engineering – idea generation

Creating Business Growth through Ideas and Innovation

• New ideas from innovative thinking
• How to find your ideas – Thinking about thinking
• Where to look for million-dollar ideas
• Putting the Idea factory to work