Welcome to the Inner Circle for January 2019. Happy New Year!

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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.

The Creative Problem Solving workshop will give you an overview of the entire creative problem solving process, as well as key problem solving tools that you can use every day. Skills such as brainstorming, information gathering, analysing data, and identifying resources will be covered throughout the workshop.

Webinar 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

Before you begin, you can download a pre webinar quiz and see what you already know about creative problem solving:

Welcome to “Creative Problem Solving”

Webinar - Part 1

Webinar - Part 2

Webinar - Part 3

From around the web:

Learn Creative Problem-Solving Techniques to Stimulate Innovation in Your Organization
https://www.smartsheet.com/problem-solving-techniques

The Basics of Creative Problem Solving – CPS
http://www.innovationmanagement.se/imtool-articles/the-basics-of-creative-problem-solving-cps/

The Psychology of Problem-Solving

How to Manage for Collective Creativity
https://www.ted.com/talks/linda_hill_how_to_manage_for_collective_creativity

What is Creative Problem Solving?

My recommended reading this month is: Lateral Thinking: Creativity, Step by Step by Edward deBono

Cheers

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