Creativity Hacks - Psychology and Tools for Creative Thinking

Like problem solving, everyone has the ability to improve their creativity skills. As team leaders, it's important to know how to foster your team's creativity and promote problem solving skills.

In the Creativity Hacks course, you will explore how to substantially improve individual creativity skills using simple techniques and tools.

In addition, this course will demonstrate how engineers, as group facilitators, may effectively use these skills to improve the problem solving with their teams.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for individuals who want to improve their creativity skills and for engineers who facilitate creativity and problem solving in teams.

What You Will Learn

• The systems model for creativity

• The psychology and neuroscience of creativity

• Tools and techniques for individual creativity

• How to facilitate group creativity

• A simple model for improving one’s personal creativity

• A group creativity and facilitation case study based on a popular visual problem solving methodology

How You Will Benefit

• Explore the basics of cognitive neuroscience and its impacts on creativity and problem solving.

• Identify strategies for creative problem solving.

• Determine effective methods for facilitating and fostering group creativity.

• Identify and practice using tools to improve individual and group creativity.