Over the past few decades, psychologists and business professionals have found that successful problem solvers consistently follow a similar process to identify challenges and implement effective solutions. This approach works for problems of any size or complexity.
In the Creative Problem Solving workshop, you will gain a comprehensive overview of the entire problem-solving process, along with practical tools you can use every day. You will develop essential skills such as brainstorming, gathering and analyzing information, and identifying available resources, enabling you to approach challenges with confidence and creativity.
Course Objectives:
• Understand problems and the creative problem solving process
• Identify types of information to gather and key questions to ask in problem solving
• Identify the importance of defining a problem correctly
• Identify and use four different problem definition tools
• Write concrete problem statements
• Use basic brainstorming tools to generate ideas for solutions
• Evaluate potential solutions against criteria, including cost/benefit analysis and group
voting
• Perform a final analysis to select a solution
• Understand the roles that fact and intuition play in selecting a solution
• Understand the need to refine the shortlist and redefine it
• Understand how to identify the tasks and resources necessary to implement solutions
• Evaluate and adapt solutions to reality