Creative Thinking Skills
How to Think Outside the Box for Creative Ideas?
What you'll learn
- Understand the link between creative thinking and problem solving
- Test thinking styles and the stages of problem solving
- Deal with problems creatively
- Define a problem and follow the right steps to solve it
- Present ideas and make the best decision
- Carry out the solution
- Assess your problem solving skills
- Assess your thinking style
About this course
This course teaches Creative Thinking Skills, and how to think outside the box to reach creative ideas that solve your problems. It starts with the question of whether you are an innovative person, then explains the link between creative thinking and problem solving, and tests thinking styles and the stages of problem solving. After that you learn how to deal with problems creatively, how to define a problem and follow the right steps to solve it. Then you move on to presenting ideas and making the best decision, how to make the right decision, and carrying out the solution. The course ends with an assessment of your problem solving skills and of your thinking style, with a presentation about creative thinking in problem solving. It suits employees, business owners, managers and anyone who wants to develop the way they think. No previous experience is needed. The course relies on questions and self assessments, so you find out your strengths and what you need to develop. After finishing, you will be able to define a problem, generate new ideas, and choose and carry out the most suitable solution.
Expected outcomes
- Enhance creative thinking skills to address problems.
- Ability to identify and analyze problems effectively.
- Develop innovative strategies for problem-solving.
- Make sound decisions based on well-founded principles.
- Implement solutions in an effective and impactful manner.
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Course content
1Creative Thinking Skills
8 lectures
- Are You an Innovative Person?Helps discover how creative you are through a circle-drawing exercise, shows indicators of variety and originality, explains how individual evaluation can kill collaboration, and how to track your creative times and conditions to repeat them.12:39
- The Relationship Between Creative Thinking and Problem SolvingClarifies that creative thinking is not about producing ideas quickly but a key element in problem solving and decision making, distinguishes it from analytical thinking, and explains the gap concept and why people see the same problem differently.15:32
- Testing Thinking Methods and Stages of Problem SolvingPresents two tests: learning and thinking styles (doing versus observing, practical versus theoretical) and what distinguishes styles like diverger and assimilator, and a problem-solving skills test, with an example of using surroundings and information to find a solution.13:14
- Dealing with Problems CreativelyExplains two ways to deal with problems: Stop, which tackles the root through prevent, eliminate or reduce, and Mop, which handles the effects through treating, tolerating or exploiting them, with examples such as a leaking air conditioner.9:56
- Defining the Problem and the Correct Steps to Solve ItExplains the steps of solving a problem instead of jumping to guesses: identifying it by comparing the current and acceptable situation, then analyzing causes down to the root, with examples like traffic congestion and falling sales.16:40
- Presenting Ideas and Making the Optimal DecisionExplains the idea-generation stage for solving a problem with creative thinking tools such as brainstorming, reversal, substitution and the reverse question, to gather as many ideas as possible before moving on to choosing a decision.20:46
- How to Make the Right DecisionExplains choosing the best option among many ideas using cost-benefit analysis and a comparison table with elements weighted by a sensitivity index, with the example of choosing a vacation city, and involving people with the competence to decide.8:45
- Implementing the SolutionExplains implementing the solution: planning who does what, when and how, then winning buy-in by showing what is in it for the people involved, then executing with review checkpoints and pre-set measures, and closes with a course recap.5:09
2Attachments
3 attachments
- Assessing Your Problem-Solving Skills
- Evaluating Your Thinking Style
- Creative Thinking Presentation in Problem Solving
Instructor
Ibada Ahmed
