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Creative thinking

Do you and your colleagues sometimes lack creative ideas, or does resistance break down the creative process before it has properly started? In this in-company training, you learn to use your team's brainpower and facilitate brainstorming sessions. The training consists of 4 half-days for 6 to 12 participants.

Creative Thinking
Creative Thinking

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Do you recognise this?

You gather the team around the table for a brainstorm on a difficult challenge. After ten minutes, the same ideas come up as last time, and as soon as someone suggests something new, the answer follows: we have already tried that.

The atmosphere collapses and you feel you should have managed it. You want everyone to think along, but you do not know how to turn that initial resistance into movement.

You want innovative solutions for complex challenges, and yet:

  • creative ideas are missing in your team;
  • the creative process often stops due to resistance or criticism;
  • you do not know how to facilitate a brainstorm so that everyone participates;
  • you stick to the same solutions you already know.

This training is meant for managers, project leaders and entrepreneurs who want to use the full brainpower of their teams.

Why do brainstorming sessions get stuck in what you already know?

Under time pressure, people reach for what is safe. A new idea feels like a risk, criticism comes quickly, and those who do not feel heard keep their thoughts to themselves. This way, you stick to the solutions you already know.

That costs your team energy and enthusiasm. The sessions feel like an obligation, the quiet voices remain quiet and real opportunities remain unexploited. As a facilitator, you carry that feeling with you, because you know there is more in your team.

It does not have to stay this way. Creative thinking and taking a group along in it are skills you can learn.

How do you get the best out of your team's ideas?

Creativity is not a gift that some have. You learn how your brain makes associations, how you reframe criticism and how you create an atmosphere where everyone dares to contribute.

Our coaches know the resistance in a brainstorm, and know how to use it instead of fighting it. You work with techniques for the brain, reframing, brainstorming and gamestorming, and you get a clear role as a facilitator.

Over four half-days, you practise with cases from your own work, with reflection and feedback after each exercise. This way, you lead the next brainstorm with more confidence.

What you can do after the training

After the training you can:

  • think and work more creatively;
  • use insight into group dynamics and creativity;
  • deal with resistance;
  • achieve original ideas and solutions;
  • encourage teammates to think creatively;
  • facilitate brainstorming sessions.

This is how we approach it

The programme consists of 4 half-days. In each half-day, we first provide the general framework. Then you put the principles and techniques into practice with examples and cases from your own work situation. After each exercise, we reflect and you receive feedback.

Part 1: stimulating creative thinking ability

  • Brain techniques: how you appeal to the different parts of the brain, how perception and positive psychology work, and how you activate associative and creative thinking;
  • Reframing techniques: dealing with criticism and negative feedback, framing and reframing, developing a generative mindset and using conversational reframing techniques.

Part 2: applications in brainstorming and gamestorming

  • Facilitating brainstorming in teams: your role as a facilitator, opening and maintaining a generative field, ensuring everyone participates and fully generates ideas, plus Imagineering techniques (Disney);
  • Gamestorming formats: various formats, visual techniques, storytelling techniques, developing scenarios, exploring and summarising.

Afterwards, you have tools to use brainstorming for collaboration, problem-solving, innovation and co-creation.

Aftercare

After the training, you further develop the case you started with. You report back on this (online) with each other and with the coach.

After that you keep practising

Every training is extended in the THOC Learning space. Your material remains available and you get an AI Coach who knows the lesson.

We work in an experience-oriented way: you immediately get to work with the material in exercises that resemble real situations.

Who gives this training

Our coaches can give this training. Tell us which challenges your team wants to solve, and we will tailor the cases to them.

Frequently asked questions

Who is the Creative thinking training for?

For managers, project leaders and entrepreneurs who want to use their team's brainpower to come up with innovative and creative solutions for complex challenges.

How long does the training take?

The training consists of 4 half-days. The first half is about stimulating creative thinking ability, the second about applications in brainstorming and gamestorming.

How many participants do you work with and in which language?

With six to twelve participants per group, in Dutch or English. You work with examples and cases from your own situation.

How much does the training cost?

Every training is tailored, so we work with a quote after we have heard your question. You can also request a tailored training.

Do I also learn to facilitate brainstorming sessions?

Yes. You learn what your role as a facilitator entails, how you ensure everyone participates and how you use gamestorming formats. You can find more about facilitating at Facilitation.

Practical details

  • Formula: In-company training
  • Languages: English, Dutch
  • Half-days: 4
  • Participants: 6 to 12

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