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Breakthrough Business Thinking
Is your organization long on
problems and short on solutions?
Do you ever wonder if creativity
is the missing ingredient in your corporate culture?
Are people uncomfortable about challenging the status quo with new ideas?
Do teams and even entire departments seem to be stuck on autopilot, and
you can't figure out why?
A yes to any of these questions is a good indicator that your organization
will benefit from the insights and solutions presented in Breakthrough
Business Thinking. This proven system is guaranteed to jump- start your
people's ability to come up with bold new ideas, solve problems and break
free of "comfort zone" thinking.
From receptionists and production workers to mid-level managers and
all the way up to the CEO, businesses thrive on fresh, innovative ideas.
In today's highly competitive corporate climate, having a culture that
values creative thinking can make the difference between setting trends
or falling hopelessly behind.
If your organization relies too heavily on the "tried and true" instead
of exploring riskier alternatives, then it's time to blast through some
creative roadblocks.
Who
will benefit most?
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All creative
services personnel |
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Team leaders
and managers |
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Sales and marketing
personnel |
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Decision makers
at all levels |
How we
present this material:
An on-site setting provides the perfect environment for learning how
to enhance creativity. Instructor-led discussions, group exercises and
hands-on practice will help develop important strategies to tap everyone's
creative juices. Plus, participants will get their questions answered
on the spot, receive "real time" coaching, and benefit from the synergy
of learning with co-workers.
Key
learning points:
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Gain new skills
and strategies for coming up with innovative ways to solve problems |
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Overcome old
negative beliefs ("But I'm not creative") |
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Discover exercises
guaranteed to knock you out of your traditional thought patterns
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Find new ways
to solve old problems by looking at them from an entirely different
perspective |
As a
result of this training, your organization will:
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Discover new
markets and new sources of income |
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Find innovative
ways to save time and money |
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Develop new
products and services |
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Discover faster
and less expensive ways to get products and services to customers
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Simplify and
streamline processes and procedures (or invent better ones) |
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Create an "innovation-oriented"
environment |
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Improve morale,
decrease turnover and empower people by giving them a chance to
make a real contribution |
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Enhance customer
service |
Program Agenda
Learn to "think like a creative person" (even if you think you're
not)
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How creativity
and innovation differ-and ways to cultivate both in yourself |
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Are you unknowingly
sabotaging your own creativity? How to tell-and how to stop |
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Tricks to getting
under, over or through typical "business roadblocks" to creativity
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Understanding
your own personal "filters" and the ways they affect your view of
the world |
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Spotting hidden
opportunities in every problem |
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Discovering
different thinking styles and techniques that promote new ideas
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The smart way
to ask "dumb questions"-and why they're one of your best creative
tools |
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Trends: 4 steps
to determine if they are worth watching or just fly-by-night fads |
Problem-solving techniques that generate innovative solutions, fast
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What exactly
is wrong? The "5 Whys" technique helps you pinpoint any problem
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How to use
the Scatter Gram, Fishbone and Affinity Diagram methods of problem
solving |
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Metaphoric
thinking and Mindmapping-2 techniques for hastening innovative solutions
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5 ways to put
yourself in a state of "alpha brainwave" thinking-the best place
for letting your creativity take wing |
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Pros and cons
of group problem solving |
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How to help
your team avoid the danger of groupthink (nothing kills great ideas
faster) |
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Making it fun:
why the solution process is as important as the end result |
Great new ideas, anytime you
need 'em!
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How to brainstorm
to encourage free thinking and idea generation v |
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Sticky notes:
Believe it or not, they can be one of your most important brainstorming
tools! |
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Using storyboarding
to solve complex issues |
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"Idea triggers"
to help you turbocharge your brain and flex your creative muscle
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How "what if"
scenarios can help you challenge "tried and true" business thinking
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Using your
computer as a "brainstorming buddy" |
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How to use
the 7x7 Technique, an Importance Matrix and Reverse |
Brainstorming to weed out the
rest and keep the best
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The SCAMPER
technique-what it is, how to use it to keep your ideas focused and
on target |
How to put your ideas into
action
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7 ways office
politics can derail good ideas- and how to work with the political
machine in your organization |
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There's no
success like failure: how to make defeat a priceless learning experience |
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Managing, supporting
and encouraging creative people and their ideas |
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How you can
overcome resistance to change when selling your ideas to others |
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Ways to change
negative thinking patterns into "constructive discontent" |
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How to recognize
and remove the roadblocks to creativity that your organization may
already have in place |
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Ways to transform
your environment so that it supports and rewards innovation |
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