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Principles of Creative Problem Solving BUS_ADM 230-0
NEW IN WINTER 2010!
During this 2 day course, participants will learn the mindset, tool set and skill set necessary for innovation to become a reality at the workplace. With the Creative Problem Solving Process, participants gain a proven process, a common language and approach to problem solving that promotes meaningful collaboration and innovation. Personal feedback on the FourSight thinking style profile will help individuals leverage style differences when it comes to solving problems and use a variety of tools to create new options in response to problems and challenges. This course is particularly appropriate for anyone who needs to identify problems, generate ideas, or participate in implementing plans of action. Individuals in this program accomplish real work by applying their new innovation tools and techniques on real personal or organizational challenges.
Key Benefits:
* Enables individuals, groups and teams to share a common language and process for problem solving * Allows individuals to learn and leverage their creative strengths * Provides a framework and tools to bolster creative thinking * Provides creative thinking and innovation tools and techniques for generating and evaluating ideas * Drastically reduces the time required for implementing innovative solutions * Provides the root cause analysis skills to fully understand challenges to yield creative solutions to complex issues. * Gives participants a way to turn problems into opportunities * Gain a variety of creative tools that are used to help facilitate new product development, strategic planning and team building
