THINK DIFFERENT !

– is a training program redesigned to specifically address the urgent need for employees and entrepreneurs to develop a much more modern, creative, critical and innovative mindset that would allow them to constantly develop new business ideas, services, and processes that is relevant to the current technologically-advanced environment.

– is a dynamic and highly interactive program that allows participants to tap into their creative, critical and innovative potentials. Participants learn modern ways to develop creative ideas and strategies through taking into consideration the endless potentials that new technologies can offer them.

– lays out simple yet highly effective modern creative and critical thinking tools that can be used and implemented in the real and highly modern business and working life.

PROGRAM CONTENT

PROGRAM INTRODUCTION & ICE-BREAKING

  • Introduction to Creative & Critical Thinking
  • Barriers to Creativity and Innovation

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DOERS AND THINKERS

  • Barriers to Creativity and Innovation

EFFICIENT TO EFFECTIVE

  • The difference between being efficient and effective and the need to have leadership creativity to move from simply providing customer service to embracing customer care.

EMPOWERING THE CREATIVE & CRITICAL THINKING MIND

  • The human brain – potential, energy, synapse, cells, corpus callosum etc.
  • Left & right brain functions
  • Activity : Brain dominance test – are you a left or right-brainer?
  • Left/right brain gym – expanding the creative and critical brain capacities
  • Achieving a better left/right brain potential

MIND-MAPPING AS A THINKING TOOL

  • Using structured thinking – application of left and right brain
  • See both the whole picture and the details within it
  • Application of Mind-mapping exercises.

PROBLEM SOLVING THROUGH DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND OPINIONS

  • De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats as a Model as a team problem solving and idea generating thinking pattern
  • Using interests rather than positions as a creative thinking pattern
  • Comprehensive perspectives consideration in problem solving and decision making
  • Application of critical and creative thinking patterns
  • Avoids biased and undemocratic problem solving and decision making.
  • Workshop: Applying the 6 Thinking Hats on a Business Idea

S.C.A.M.P.E.R AS AN INNOVATION TOOL

  • Using existing innovation as platform for reinvention
  • SCAMPER-ing Exercises
    • Invention Workshop – SCAMPERING of current processes and products (I)

CUSTOMER-CENTRIC IDEAS & PROCESS/PRODUCT INVENTION WORKSHOP (II)

  • Collation of creative ideas developed during the program using the creativity tools learnt. Ideas are to be developed and applied at the workplace.