Creative Problem-Solving and Decision-Making

They say that creativity declines with age. But it doesn’t have to be that way! You can rekindle, maintain and even increase your creativity. This exciting programme features numerous tools and activities and a carefully structured progression of exercises, experiences and cognitive learning that will turn you into a creative problem-solver and decision-maker.

The workshop manual contains numerous creative problem-solving and decision-making tools, activities and exercises that will show you how your creativity is growing.

Objectives

• Generate innovative ideas with clockwork regularity
• Win support for your ideas and put them into action
• Identify and address root causes that offer the greatest payoff
• Improve your decision-making to impact the bottom line
• Translate your solution into practical actions and strategies
• Demonstrate your recommendation and win support

Key Topics

• Expanding your creativity
• Removing internal blocks to creativity
• Making the first problem assessment
• How to formulate an effective problem statement
• Identifying the root causes and effects
• The Why and How of setting objectives and finding solutions
• Assessing advantages using evaluation criteria
• Creating and evaluating critical success factors
• Preparing for specific actions and follow-up
• Selecting your most effective contingencies

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"A very interesting and useful programme and valuable skills for my job. The presenter made it easy to understand the concepts."