Creative Thinking And Innovation Training

Overview

What is Creativity and Innovation

• Creativity and innovation: a breakdown
• Know your creative potential

Individual Creativity

• Know yourself
• Boost your creative juices

Get Creative

Developing the Right Environment for Creativity

• What does a creative environment look like?
• Build your creative environment

Creativity and Innovation in Business

• The role of creativity and innovation in business
• The birth of the Four Seasons: a case study

Where Does Creativity Fit Into the Problem-Solving Process

• Problem solving models
• Phase one
• Phase two
• Phase three

Defining the Problem

• Problem identification
• Eight essentials to defining a problem
• Tying it all together
• Power of Eight

Creative Techniques

• RAP model
• Shoe Swap technique
• Walk a mile
• Mind mapping
• Metaphors and analogies
• Making metaphors
• Situation/solution reversal
• Reverse it to solve it

Encouraging Creativity in a Team

• Brainstorming
• Rolestorming
• Acting it out
• The Stepladder Technique
• Brainwriting
• The Slip Writing technique

Putting it all Together

• Nancy Clue and the case of the software upgrade
• Create ideas and choose your solution