Creative Problem-Solving for Innovation: Getting Everyone Out of the Box - SYNCHRONOUS

Business innovations and scientific discoveries often result from romantic experiences, rags to riches stories, and chance. However, business insight and scientific discovery is also a way of thinking that can be learned and practiced. If you have always understood that optimal performance demands creativity, innovations and insight, then this course is for you. Learn to access and maximize the creative tools, energy, and skills you have to generate productive and sustainable solutions.

Facilitator: Jennifer Walinga

For more information about this course please contact Professional and Continuing Studies

Topics Covered:

Who is creative? Creativity myths and myth busters
Great stories of creativity, innovation and insight
What is creativity? The differences between innovation, insight, adaptation, divergence, convergence, and creative problem solving
Barriers to creativity: physiological and neurological blocks
Unlocking creative insight: physiological and neurological keyholes
Tools and strategies for sustaining and managing creativity and innovation: integrated focus, multi-think vs multi-task, visual brainstorming, idea management, remote association, assumption destruction, Blue Ocean Strategy, problem finding

Learning Outcomes:

Gain a deeper understanding of creative problem solving, and particularly insight problem solving
Improve your ability to solve problems in a more creative way
Exercise your research and analytical skills on a realistic issue or problem
Build and develop your ‘creative’ toolbox

This course can be taken on its own or as part of the Professional Communication Skills Certificate and the Supervisor Skills Certificate.