Creative thinking

Come up with creative solutions

Do you and your colleagues sometimes lack creative ideas and solutions? Is there resistance that causes the creative process to often be broken off before it has properly started?

Learning objectives

After this training, participants will be able to:

• be more creative
• gain insight into group dynamics and creativity
• deal with resistance
• achieve original ideas and solutions
• encourage teammates to think creatively
• facilitate brainstorming sessions

This training is intended for managers, project leaders and entrepreneurs who want to use the full brainpower of their teams to come up with innovative and creative solutions for complex challenges.

This training programme consists of 4 half-day modules. In each module, we first provide the general framework. Next, we put the principles and techniques into practice and the participants work out examples and cases that tie in with their own work situation.

Day 1: Stimulating creative thinking skills

1. 'Brain' techniques

• how to appeal to the different parts of the brain
• how perception works
• how positive psychology works
• how to stimulate associative thinking
• how to activate creative thinking

1. Reframing techniques

• how to deal with criticism and negative feedback
• how to frame and reframe
• how to develop a generative mindset
• using conversational reframing techniques

Day 2: Applications: brainstorming and gamestorming

1. How to facilitate brainstorming in teams

• what your role as a facilitator entails
• how to open and maintain a 'generative field'
• how to ensure everyone participates
• how to ensure people fully generate ideas
• Imagineering techniques (Disney)

1. Gamestorming methods

• how to use various methods
• visual techniques
• storytelling techniques
• working out scenarios
• exploring and summarising

This is a highly interactive training. You will receive principles and techniques that you immediately learn to apply through assignments. After each exercise, we reflect and you receive feedback. Afterwards, you will have tools that will help you use brainstorming as a tool for collaboration, problem solving, innovation and co-creation.

Aftercare

Following this, participants are given the assignment to further refine the case they started with during the workshop and to report back (online) to each other and the trainer.

Experience-oriented learning at The House of Coaching

The House of Coaching stands for experience-oriented learning. As a participant, you constantly work with the theory through practical, experience-oriented exercises that teach you to apply your skills in real situations. We facilitate the learning process through maximum interaction and sharing experiences. That is learning that really sticks!

Would you like to develop these 21st Century Skills in your people, team or organisation?

Then get in touch and we will work out a programme together!