Description

In a complex and fast changing environment, “off the shelf” thinking is not enough. You have to get off the well-beaten path and think “out-of-the-box”. Only in this way will you be able to reconcile apparently contradictory objectives, find innovative solutions to difficult problems and make decisions in an environment in which there are lots of unknowns. This is probably one of the key skills that companies are looking for, and in particular in team managers whose mission it is to implement strategy. A lot of people seem to find these skills hard to get: “I’m not creative”, we say about ourselves as if it were a fatality. On the other hand, the skill of being able to increase your creativity and free up the resources of your mind is just like any other skill. It is learnt. The first stage is to become aware of the role that emotions and representations can play in the creative process. Then you have to use some world-renowned tools to increase your creativity. You then organise your thinking more methodically and, finally, move on to the action phase. And that is precisely what this programme is going to teach you.

After this course, you will be able to:
• Understand the role and importance of your emotions in the creative process
• Use some tools that will help you to free up your creative resources: individual brainstorming, the walt disney method, the mind map method
• Use some tools to think in a methodical way and to pinpoint all of the aspects of a complex problem: the swot matrix, the issue tree method
• Improve your decision-making and set accessible objectives for yourself

The benefits of this course for you and your company:
• You will develop a sense of “thinking out of the box” to search alternative solutions to complex issues
• You will increase your capacity to meet challenges which have seemed impossible up to now
• You will feel more comfortable in making decisions in a complex and changing environment

Outline

Learning plan

Feeling more comfortable with the creative process
•Using individual brainstorming
•Using the Walt Disney three-step method
•Using the mind map method
•Becoming aware of the role of your emotions

Using your creative potential to tackle complex issues
•Using a SWOT analysis to pinpoint multiple perspectives
•Using an issue tree to dissect issues and pinpoint winning solutions

Improve your capacity to make decisions and take action on them
•Perceiving the role of our emotions in decisions and understanding the fact that some of our decisions are irrational
•Improving our capacity to make (or not make) a decision
•Setting ourselves accessible objectives

Additional Info

Languages

English, French

Course Length

40.00 hours

Duration of Access

3 months

Instructor

Prerequisites/Audience

This course is intended for:
• Business Unit managers
• Line managers
• Managers who hold jobs involving professional expertise

Requirements/Materials Included