WINV060 - Creative Problem-Solving for Innovation: Getting Everyone Out of the Box

Course Description

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.

Course Outline

In this course you will explore:

• Who is creative? What is creativity?
• Creativity myths and myth busters
• The differences between innovation, insight, adaptation, divergence, convergence and creative problem solving
• Physiological and neurological barriers to creativity and they keys to unlocking them
• 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

Learner Outcomes

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Understand the field of creative and insight problem solving.
• Solve problems in creative ways
• Use your research and analytical skills on a realistic issue or problem
• Use your ‘creative’ toolbox

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

• Professional Certificate in Effective People Management : Core Courses
• Professional Certificate in Management & Leadership : Core Courses
• Professional Communication Certificate : Elective Courses
• Sport Leadership Micro-credential : Elective Courses