Do you and your colleagues sometimes lack creative ideas and solutions? Is there resistance that often breaks down the creative process before it has even started?

Learning objectives

After this training, participants are able to:

• be more creative
• understand group dynamics and creativity
• deal with resistance
• achieve original ideas and solutions
• stimulate team members to think creatively
• guide brainstorming sessions

This training is designed for executives, project managers and entrepreneurs who would like to use the full brainpower of their teams to come up with innovative and creative solutions to complex challenges.

This training programme consists of 4 half-day modules. In each module, we first bring the general framework. Then we put the principles and techniques into practice and participants work through examples and cases that fit their own work situation.

Day 1: Stimulating creative thinking skills

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

Day 2: Applications: brainstorming & gamestorming

• How to facilitate brainstorming in teams
• what your role as facilitator involves
• how to open and maintain a generative field
• How to make sure everyone participates
• How to get people to generate ideas fully
• Imagineering techniques (Disney)
• Gamestorming methods
• How to use various work forms
• visual techniques
• storytelling techniques
• developing scenarios
• exploring and summarising

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

Follow-up

Afterwards, participants are asked to further refine the case they started with during the workshop and to feed back (online) with each other and the trainer.

Experiential Learning at The House of Coaching

The House of Coaching stands for experiential learning. As a participant, you continuously engage with theory through practical, experiential exercises that teach you to apply your skills in real situations. We facilitate the learning process through maximum interaction and sharing of experiences. That's learning that really sticks!