Creative Thinking and Problem Solving for Busy People

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Why this Course is Important

“Master the critical skills and tools to help drive innovation, create different alternatives and generate better solutions.”

Every day, leaders like you face problems to solve and decisions to make. Some problems are big and can significantly impact your team and organisation, while others are small and quick to fix. To solve problems and make good decisions, you need more than your gut. You must understand how to use and apply problem-solving and decision-making frameworks to whatever you and your team are working on.

If you know how the human brain processes, judges and makes decisions and how you can use proven problem-solving frameworks, you will be halfway to finding solutions to your work problems.

By attending the Creative Thinking and Problem Solving for Busy People, you’ll learn how to improve your problem-solving and decision-making ability. You’ll leave the session with new tools and frameworks so you will know how to approach any problem confidently to solve it.

Course Objectives

Successful completion of this course will increase your ability to:

Identify roadblocks that prevent creative thinking.
Develop creative attitudes and learn to see that all problems have opportunities.
Rediscover your creative ability.
Focus and direct creative efforts.
Overcome criticism and gain acceptance for new ideas.
Learn creative and effective techniques to recognise and identify problems.
Explore techniques for managing creative people.
Realise the significance of humour and how it impacts creativity.

What You Will Learn

Why as a leader, you must maintain innovation and creativity within your team to withstand business challenges.
How to overcome common misconceptions and creation myths.
Getting past the obstacles of problem-solving, including criticism, negativity and perfectionism.
The six basic laws of problem-solving.
How to take risks and learn from failure.
Problem-solving techniques include:
- The SCAMPER approach
- The 7×7 technique
- 6 Thinking Hats
- Other problem-solving matrixes to evaluate your ideas.

Personalised Certificate for Completion

31-cert-problem-solving At the end of each training session, participants will be asked to complete a short assessment based on the course covered and receive a personalised downloadable certificate.

Professionally Designed Workbook Included

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Your course comes with a professionally-designed downloadable workbook. The workbook will allow you to add information gained during the training, as well as add your own thoughts and observations. The last page of the workbook contains a personal action plan to help you implement the key lessons from this training session.

BONUS: For managers, team leaders, and supervisors attending this training, you will also receive a bonus coaching question sheet. This is the perfect tool for having powerful coaching conversations with individuals or your entire team about this topic.

Paul Puckridge

For the past 26 years, Paul Puckridge has been the training director and head instructional designer at The Success Institute. Over nearly three decades, Paul has trained over 10,000 managers and employees from any of Australia's most respected and well-known private and public organisations. Paul has a passion for professional development, ongoing learning, and a deep desire to help develop Australian managers' and employees' skills and work smarts.