Creative Thinking Skills
Jogjakarta Plaza Hotel | 4-6 Februari 2013 | Rp. 6.000.000, -/peserta
DESCRIPTION
How to think out of the box of limitation? How to generate new ideas and discover new solutions to old problems? How to develop a mind set that can always think fresh? What kind of attitude is necessary to have to be able to be creative? How to develop an ecology in the work place that has the ability to be strategic/creative? Creative thinking skills is integral part of strategic thinking in that both thinking skills are futuristic. Being strategic has to have a creative element about it without which strategic thinking becomes rehash of old ideas and is ineffective. Important part of creative thinking are MIND LIVENERS , which are special exercises that are designed to make the mind bright and fluent. Another important ingredient is to ability to feel FREE and not mind making mistakes or being judged. Therefore CREATIVE thinking training is highly specialized and enables people to consider the unknown, many options, consequences, possibilities, ways and means and solutions. Highly recommended program for mid and upper management.
OUTLINE
Creative thinking skills use very different approaches to critical thinking skills. They involve a much more relaxed, open, playful approach. This can require some risk-taking. Creative thinking skills involve such approaches as:
- Looking for many possible answers rather than one.
- Allowing yourself to make wild and crazy suggestions as well as those that seem sensible.
- Not judging ideas early in the process – treat all ideas as if they may contain the seeds of something potentially useful.
- Allowing yourself to doodle, daydream or play with a theory or suggestion.
- Being aware that these approaches necessarily involve making lots of suggestions that are unworkable and may sound silly.
- Making mistakes.
- Learning from what has not worked as well as what did.
In this section, you can learn more about the processes and what creative thinking really involves:
A state of mind
Creative thinking skills are as much about attitude and self-confidence as about talent. Creativity is often less ordered, structured and predictable. As you are not looking for ‘one’ answer, you are likely to come up with lots of suggestions that are not ‘right’. This can be difficult if you are more used to analytical and logical approaches. It can also be experienced as ‘risky’ as the prospect of making a mistake or not coming up with an answer is more likely.
Creativity and emotions
Strong emotional self-management is often needed in order to allow creative thinking states to emerge. It is important to be able to cope with risk, confusion, disorder and feeling that you are not progressing quickly.
Creative thinking techniques
There is no limit to ways there are of thinking creatively. Some techniques you can begin with are:
- Brainstorm ideas on one topic onto a large piece of paper: don’t edit these. Just write them down.
- Allowing yourself to play with an idea whilst you go for a walk.
- Draw or paint a theory on paper.
- Ask the same question at least twenty times and give a different answer each time.
- Combine some of the features of two different objects or ideas to see if you can create several more.
- Change your routine. Do things a different way. Walk a different route to college.
- Let your mind be influenced by new stimuli such as music you do not usually listen to.
- Be open to ideas when they are still new: look for ways of making things work and pushing the idea to its limits.
- Ask questions such as ‘what if….?’ Or ‘supposing….?’.
Combine analytical and creative thinking skills
Many important breakthroughs in science and innovation have resulted from:
- Focusing on a subject in a logical, analytical way for some time, thinking through possible solutions.
- Daydreaming or distracting the mind, but holding the same problem lightly ‘at the back of the mind’.
- The answer has often emerged on dreams or daydreams when the innovator was not trying so hard to find the answer. However, the daydream on its own did not achieve anything.
TRAINING METHOD
- Presentation
- Discussion
- Case Study
- Evaluation
INSTRUKTUR:
Fauzan Asmara
FACILITY
- Training Kit/flashdisk/tas/jaket
- Handout
- Certificate
- Lunch + 2 X Coffee Break
- Souvenir
TIME AND PLACE
- 4-6 Februari 2013
- Jogjakarta Plaza Hotel
BIAYA PELATIHAN
Rp. 6.000.000,- / Peserta / non residential