In the new economy, organizations can no longer afford to miss opportunities that affect their sustainability and competitiveness. Complex challenges and opportunities require creative and innovative thinking. Creative problem solving provides a basis for generating solutions individually and as a team. It promotes the expression of new ideas and gives employees an opportunity to put forward their ideas without the risk of being criticized. This 5-day program aims at developing creativity at workplaces and provides an exposure to creative problem solving approaches.
Benefits of Attending
At the end of the program you will:
- Understand how you regulate your emotions
- Have a systematic and thorough mechanism for identifying and solving problems
- Gain an understanding of the environmental and interpersonal dimensions of the problem solving process
- Understand the mechanism of the mind and the way thinking happens lateral thinking
- Evolve a problem solving toolkit
- Familiarize yourself with the IDEAL problem solver
- Be able to come up with Knowledge Management System for Problem Solving
Program Content
- Psychobiology of the brain Split Theory / Triarchic Mind
- Mechanism of the mind
- Elements of practical thinking
- Creativity techniques
- Creative ethos in times of rapid change: The creative personality
- Personal roadmap for enhancing one's creativity and perceptiveness
- Perceptual flaws
- The IDEAL problem solving structure
- Film analysis for elements of creativity and problem solving
- Role of emotions and values in group problem solving: Revisiting MBTI
- Elements of knowledge management for organization-Wide problem solving
- Complex Skills solving problems from everyday work life: A case for Hard and Soft Skills
- Simulating Creativity and Brainstorming The Mckinsey Way
- Consensus building / Factor analysis
- Handling disruptive behavior
- Group problem solving exercise using a structured approach
- Case analysis to bring out the politics of group problem solving and boundary Management- Kurosawa's "Yojimbo”
- Learning Log
Who Should Attend? Senior and Middle Managerial Positions
Program Duration: Five Days
Methodology: Case studies, Role-plays, Exercises, Group Tasks, Presentations, Case/Film screening and discussion, Feedback integration |
