Creative Thinking Program
This program can be customized to be anywhere
from 2 days to 6 months.
Objective
To bring innovation, improvisation and
creative thinking into a team or organization
Approach and Deliverables
A combination
of skill development training, real-time process facilitation, team and individual coaching, and interviews. This program
includes:
•
A repeatable Creative Thinking Process that can be used by the different teams
• Creative
thinking best practices, tools and techniques for individuals and teams
• Proven experiential and improvisational
methods for creative collaboration
• Improvisation experiences that help with group presentations
and thinking on one’s feet
• The Creative Thinking Workbook with exercises
and activities
Since creative thinking occurs through direct experience, the group sessions are highly experiential,
with a variety of diverse activities for all learning styles. Included is some lecture and discussion to ground the understanding.
This program focuses on learning, creativity, fun, risk taking, collaboration, adding on to other’s ideas in generative
ways, exploration, embracing "mistakes" as part of the process, new ways of interacting with each other and clients,
and, to use a well-known principle of improv, "Making everyone else look good."
Topics
• The Creative Solution Finding Process – a creative problem solving/solution generating
process that can be applied to any situation
• Divergent and convergent thinking – what they
are; how and when to use them
• The Creative Zone – what it is, how to get there and how
to use it
• Paradoxical characteristics of creative
teams
• Pattern breaking for innovative breakthroughs
• The different
creative thinking styles
• Effective vs. ineffective brainstorming and ideation techniques
• Shared agenda
• Thinking on Your Feet
• Principles
and practices of highly co-creative teams (i.e., Yes And)
• Maximizing and focusing the creative
resources in the group
• How to do more in less time using creativity methods
• Criteria for evaluating ideas and determining which are useful
• Reframing challenges into opportunities
Outcomes
• A greater understanding of themselves and each other
• Increased ability to think on your feet when under pressure
• More confidence
and ease when pitching and working with clients
• Enhanced skills in collaboration and co-creation
• Skill development in adapting to change, resilience, risk taking and team thinking
• Increased
creative and innovative behaviors
• Principles that can be applied outside of the workshop
setting
