Code: PDCPS
Length: 1 Day
Overview
This Creative Problem Solving workshop will give participants an overview of the entire creative problem solving process, as well as key problem solving tools that they can use every day. Creativity can be learned and fostered as a professional skill, and can provide individual inspiration as well as being a useful team building tool.
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OBJECTIVES
PREREQUISITES
None.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
In this course participants will:
- Understand the complete process of creatively solving a problem.
- Learn some key questions to ask when gathering information about a problem
- Take home tools to effectively determine what 'the problem is'
- Learn to write concrete problem statements
- Discover idea-generating tools like affinity diagrams, word chaining, the box method, the Looking through a different Lens & the blink method
- Learn to evaluate potential solutions against specific criteria like a cost/benefit analysis or group voting
- Learn to perform a final problem analysis and then select a solution
- Understand the why's & how's of refining & re-refining a solution shortlist
- Learn how to identify the tasks & resources necessary to implement a solution
- Understand how to evaluate & adapt solutions to reality
COURSE OUTLINE
In the past few decades, psychologists and business people alike have discovered that successful problem solvers tend to use the same type of process to identify and implement the solutions to their problems.
This process works for any kind of problem, large or small, in any organisation in New Zealand. This Creative Problem Solving workshop will give participants an overview of the entire creative problem solving process, as well as key problem solving tools that they can use every day.
Creativity can be learned and fostered as a professional skill, and can provide individual inspiration as well as being a useful team building tool.
Lesson 1 -
Getting Started
| Lesson 2 - The Problem Solving Method
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Lesson 3 -
Information Gathering
| Lesson 4 -
Problem Definition
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Lesson 5 -
Brainstorming Basics
| Lesson 6 -
Generating Solutions - Part One
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Lesson 7 - Generating Solutions - Part Two
| Lesson 8 -
Evaluating Solutions
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Lesson 9 -
Selecting a Solution
| Lesson 10 - Planning your Next Steps
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Lesson 11 - Recording Lessons Learned
| Lesson 12 -
Wrapping Up
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