Innovative Thinking: Ideas To Action

Learn how to break through mental road blocks and develop creative, practical and valuable solutions to your challenges.

 Creativity and innovation are mysteries to many people. This workshop cuts through the hype and fog by providing participants with clear definitions and frameworks and a simple 3 step approach which can be applied to a broad range of challenges. Learning this approach will enable you to start your creative efforts in the right place, generate quality ideas and select and refine ideas into a more actionable form. This highly interactive course is invaluable for improving creative thinking skills but also for creating a common language and understanding of organisational innovation.

The session will provide you with proven tools, techniques and tips and give you the opportunity to discuss your issues and develop practical solutions.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core elements of creativity and innovation
• Explain the difference between creativity and innovation
• Apply a pragmatic 3 step process for generating and refining new ideas
• Learn a varied set of tools and techniques to apply to your creative thinking challenges

This course can also be used as part of a programme to embed a culture of innovation in an organisation.

 Format options

• ½ day
• 1 day
• 3-12 participants

Target audience

• All staff

Areas covered

• Creativity
• Innovation
• Creative thinking process
• Prototyping