Creative Problem Solving

Course Outline

Creative Problem Solving

Course Description

The course highlights critical thinkers and creative thought leaders who can generate inventive solutions to everyday problems. In this training course, participants will gain the knowledge and skills needed to leverage left- and right-brain thinking, analyze problems, spur creativity, and implement innovative ideas in a practical way for the workplace.

Learning Outcomes

  • Make better decisions through critical thinking and creative problem solving
  • Develop your personal creativity
  • Select the best decision given the specific situation
  • Apply processes to assess work issues and problems
  • Transform your creativity into practical business solutions

Teaching Methods

The course will utilize lectures with presentations and interactive class discussion. Trainees will also analyze case studies with the supervision of the trainer.

Course outline

  • Recognizing business reasons for creative problem solving in the workplace
  • Analyzing personal preferences
  • Assessing your preferred approach to thinking
  • Identifying thinking preferences
  • The creative environment
  • Group creative thinking
  • The iterative mind
  • Applying analysis models
  • Systematic approaches to problem solving
  • Decision analysis
  • Identifying problems
  • Avoiding analysis paralysis
  • Deploying the decision