Creative Thinking and Problem Solving for Busy People

Creative Thinking and Problem Solving for Busy People

Overview

According to the World Economic Forum, creative thinkers are in high demand in today’s workplaces and job market because creative thinking is one of the key skills needed both now and in the future.

Creative thinking is a valuable soft skill that enables you to look at problems and situations from new perspectives and develops different or unconventional frameworks to provide solutions that do not rely on past solutions. Many employees want to think creatively and to be able to present new ideas and ways of doing things but don’t know how or where to start.

The good news is that the Creative Thinking and Problem Solving for Busy People session will present you with multiple frameworks and methodologies applicable to typical situations in a team where you need to use creative problem solving to find solutions and breakthroughs to current issues.

Some of the Key Learning Outcomes

  • What problems do your team have that need to be solved now or in the future?
  • What are problems, and why do they need to be solved?
  • How to discuss problems more clearly.
  • Understanding the problem.
  • How to start devising solutions to solve the problems.
  • Best practices for working together in a team to creatively solve problems.
  • Different problem-solving techniques:
    • Flipping It
    • The Creativity Dice
    • Fishbone Analysis
    • Problem Tree
    • WOT Analysis
    • Agreement-Certainty Matrix
    • SQUID
  • How to choose the best solution for the problem that needs to be solved.

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Post Author: Paul Puckridge