Creativity for Logical Thinkers

Maximise on innovative thinking and unleash individual and team creativity with the complete creative tool-kit.

Creativity and innovation at work is all about developing new perspectives, generating new ideas and solving practical problems. This is why creative thinking is essential for organisations who need to achieve and maintain a competitive edge. Knowing how to generate new ideas consistently and inject new thinking, will benefit the development of any organisation - creativity isn't just relevant; it's essential.

This workshop will help to develop fresh thinking and new ideas with the hands on creative thinking tool and techniques it unleashes. It provides a unique introduction to how the creative process works and an understanding of how ideas are generated by using creative thinking techniques effectively. It includes a number of creative thinking exercises that enable you to generate a good quantity of quality 'new' ideas - and the required harvesting techniques - so that the best solutions may be captured and selected. 

The workshop is based on real life examples. We also encourage organisations and individuals to bring along their own examples, so that they can be tackled on the course with a broad range of practical creative thinking techniques - all relevant in the workplace.

Benefits of the course

Creativity for Logical Thinkers will maximise the return on your training investment, by combining creative thinking skills training with the opportunity for team building.

• Enhance problem solving skills.
• Augment strong logical and analytical thinking with techniques to improve creative thinking.
• Individual coaching by the course facilitator on how to use the techniques in the workplace - individually and when running your own creativity sessions with others.
• Confidence booster, being able to have faith in your own ideas so they are easily expressed.
• Learn how Mind Maps can be used to extract 'innovative' concepts and multiply the number of ideas you generate.
• Gain a number of proven practical tools to support creativity and problem solving in the workplace.
• Improves team working, enhances motivation and provides greater job satisfaction.

"Very useful - particularly in management of teams and aiding creative stimulation." Lead Buying Manager, Major UK Retailer

Who should attend?

Anyone who needs to think creatively or look at a problem from different perspectives - the course has been used for all levels of personnel within an organisation. It is perfect to fill identified gaps in development programmes or to bring a team or group up to speed with creative thinking.

We've found the main reasons for people to attend are the following:

• To address challenges that cannot be addressed by conventional thinking alone.
• To improve creative thinking - unleashing personal creativity and that of others.
• To augment strong logical and analytical thinking skills with the ability to think creatively.
• To add to exisiting management, leadership or graduate development programmes.

"The course was brilliantly delivered. The tutor had vast knowledge of the subject which always helps, also to get tips for reference after the course. The methods taught has helped me a lot in terms of looking at things/situations differently and applying techniques that helps to reach solutions in ways that I wouldn't look at before. So, from my point of view it was a very helpful course." Major Worldwide Charity

Course content

Comprehensive 1 day in-house course or public workshop or 2 day in-house course

The emphasis is on learning creativity techniques that have practical applications, with a clear understanding of how the creative process works.

• The need for fresh thinking - Learn why it is essential for individuals and organisations to be more creative. Understand what type of thinker you are so you can develop your own personal creativity and help others access theirs.
• The creative process - Discover why creativity is so important in today's competitive industry and understand how to develop your ideas by using Illumine's creative process model.
• Creativity techniques - Learn a range of practical and easy to use techniques for idea generating, problem solving and evaluation. You will gather a tool box that includes Mind Mapping, an introduction to de Bono's Six Thinking Hats®, situation/solution reversal, SCAMMPERR, analogies and other thinking and creativity approaches that are proven to revolutionise, save time, money and reach decisions quickly.
• Running sessions and harvesting ideas - Discover how to gain the confidence to facilitate your own creativity sessions, making sure that all the ideas in your organisation are generated, captured and effectively evaluated.

Do you need a highly tailored creativity course?

Creativity for Logical Thinkers can be tailored to meet your very specific requirements. Take a look at our Creativity in Business page to see a discussion of the options for building a tailored creativity course.

After you've attended

Many training companies only provide post course support in the form of course notes. Once you've this course we won't forget you - we provide you with EXCLUSIVE and FREE post course areas on our website to remind you of what you've learnt. Our creativity post course area contains helpful videos, downloads, checklists, hints and tips. Find out more about our post course areas here.