Nordic Business Creativity

 

Results:

• Realizing your creativity for your work and your life
• Improving quality of managerial decisions
• Solving your ten most important life problems
• Seven creativity techniques for different situations and challenges
• Discovering your personal mission
• Accessing your “creativity state” at any time
• Feeling positive about your own creativity

Skills:

• View possible solutions from different perspective
• Brainstorm creative and wise solution ideas
• Think with a “solutions view” rather than a “problems view”.
• Choose the right idea
• Generate new challenges and achieve them

Duration:

3 days

 

Work methods:

The course uses real life situations and projects of the participants. At the beginning participants are asked to record privately their top ten problems and challenges at the workplace and at home. Later in the course, participants solve their real life issues with the help of tools they have learned, while improving the proficiency of their skills. Participants learn techniques for solo creativity, creativity in a group, managing creative groups through practical exercises in the training room, and constant feedback. Eighty percent of the training is spent on exercises and practice.

 

Program contents:

1.     Creative thinking.

• Basic elements of creativity – goal, state and method. Thinking patterns of creative people. Creative thinking in business. Personal beliefs necessary for creativity: “Everything is possible”, “I am a creative person”, etc. Developing personal creativity.

2.     Defining the desired result.

• Goals of the creative processes.What is a well-defined outcome? How to agree upon goals within a group. Defining time limits and restrictions.

3.     Creative methods for generating ideas – creativity tools.

• The essence of creative methods. What creativity tools to use and when. How to make group members apply new methods instead of sticking to old practices.
• Picture association method. This method is used to pull the team out from the trap of traditional thinking. The essence of the method is to gain new solutions and fresh perspectives through different pictures and the associations they produce.
• Word association method. This method allows participants to find new solutions and fresh perspectives, by using unconnected words. It appears that examining words, objects or situations randomly produces unusual associations with the problem, and may give new energy to the brainstorming process that has stalled or come to a dead-end.
• Disney planning strategy. The Disney planning 3 basic consists of three basic thinking processes –idea generation, planning, and criticism. It makes us look upon any situation from three different perspectives. It takes a dreamer to generate new ideas and set goals. It takes a realist to transform the ideas into specific activities. It takes a critic to filter, evaluate, and provide feedback. Each perspective serves a valuable function.
• De Bono “six thinking hats” technology. The technology of De Bono separates 6 different thinking processes from each other – facts, emotions, negative criticism, positive criticism, generating ideas, and “choosing the thinking strategy”.

4.     Creative methods of generating processes.

• Mind-mapping. Mind-mapping is a visual process for creative planning that allows one to see all the problems and possibilities associated with any issue to be solved. This method simultaneously improves personal efficiency. 
•  “Storyboard” method.  “Storyboarding,” a method for planning ideas; provides a large overview and structures completion of the process. 
•  “As if” frame. This is a method for inventing new outcomes. We imagine the outcomes desired as real, and we look upon them from a future perspective, generating useful outcome-producing ideas for today.

5.     Creativity and personal state.

• The influence of personal states on our creative abilities (tiredness, discontent, lack of inspiration, etc). State management methods – the capability of quickly regaining the state of inspiration. Developing creativity “anchors” and applying them at work.
• Creativity in different spheres of life. Transferring creative skills from one context to another.
• Result-oriented approach versus problem-oriented approach.

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