Innovation and Creativity!

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Do you want to break out of restrictive mental habits and thinking patterns?  If you answer is yes, then this course is for you! A two-day experience that opens the creative flow. We help employees break out of restrictive mental habit patterns. The ability of both individuals and work groups to view problems and opportunities from fresh and novel perspectives adds immense value to all types of organizations and to all types of work situations.

To step back into the neutral arena of a tried and tested workshop experience enables people to freely experiment with techniques and to experience all the sense of achievement using approaches which are easily transferred to the work place.

If you attend this course, you have the opportunity to:

  • Gain the ability to more quickly shift into a brainstorming mode, both individually and in group situations
  • Develop a willingness to withhold judgmental thinking permitting others to spontaneously brainstorm problems and opportunities
  • Harness creative abilities when working together on plans and projects
  • Successfully bring about innovative change with processes and people
  • Enable participants to more effectively express their thoughts and implement ideas

Duration:

2 Days

Objectives:

After successfully completing this course, the attendee should be able to:

  • Brainstorm effectively
  • More quickly identify problem solutions
  • Develop new and better methods and processes
  • Describe ideas in more innovative ways

Content:

  • Apply a set of basic thought process steps which lead to creative thinking
  • Temporarily suspend judicial evaluation
  • Overcome the routine obstacles to creative thinking
  • Harness confusion
  • Use a process of idea generation to create a wider field of creative solutions to a broad range of applications
  • Use combinations, embellishments and improvements to find solutions
  • Withhold restrictive thinking, permitting a free flow of seemingly irrelevant ideas
  • Minimize competitiveness, rigidity and negativity
  • Re-channel a seemingly irrelevant array of approximations into targeted outcomes
  • Build trust, teamwork and commitment to work group innovation
  • Work more effectively in brainstorming teams and meetings

Methods:

The Lausanne Institute is committed to the application of classroom learning to the workplace setting. We employ a variety of instructional training methods to assure skills transfer. These include:

  • Group Dynamics
  • Guided Conferences
  • Simulations
  • Case Studies
  • Lecturettes
  • Skill Practice Exercises