Creativity and Innovation Training

What is creativity?

(or lateral thinking) and ‘how to be more creative?’, are the questions that creativity courses and innovation training, should answer.

Practical tools and techniques and a thorough understanding of the creative process.
Generate fresh thinking AND solve problems effectively
Practical strategies and approaches to robust decision making
A toolkit to facilitate structured and critical thinking
High paced half day full of creative thinking techniques
The official De Bono course that teaches a robust creative process
A structured and effective approach to problem solving De Bono’s workshop to enhance group thinking and meetings
Short sharp sessions to enhance communication skills

Our highly practical courses have been providing answers for leading companies and public sector organisations since 1996. Innovation courses and training in creativity should result in changes in working practices so that fresh thinking and new ideas are developed. Understanding how to be creative and how innovation and lateral thinking happen, are important first steps in building organisations’ creative capacity. That then needs to be backed up with usable techniques that show people how to be creative and how to make innovation at work a reality. Creativity and Innovation are recognised as essential – after all, being different is a major source of competitive advantage.

Our workshops will provide you with creative thinking skills and techniques to help you to unlock your creativity and innovation and transform ideas into reality. Our courses provide practical problem solving training, introducing creative thinking models and strategies that will challenge you and help you to review existing perspectives and consider alternative ways of working. They are particularly effective for individuals who want to build on strong logical thinking capabilities and analytical skills by being able to think laterally as well. Drawing on methods, techniques and exercises developed by leading experts on thinking and creativity, Tony Buzan and Edward de Bono, we have a comprehensive range of highly participative, challenging and enjoyable training courses and workshops for you to choose from. If creative thinking and innovation play a major part in your life or you would like to add creativity to strong logical thinking skills, these courses will be invaluable:

Creative thinking training courses and workshops

Creativity for Logical Thinkers is THE ideal creativity workshop. A highly participative training course that utilises our own creative process model. The model ensures you understand how creativity works before learning practical tools and techniques that help you and your organisation to unleash creativity. For creativity in business it’s worth remembering that everyone can be creative, aid problem solving, decision making and generate new ideas.

The workshop turns that possibility into a reality. Perfect if your natural talent and preferred mode of thinking lies in logical or analytical thinking – but you want to add the ability to think more creatively about the challenges facing you and your organisation.

Generating Ideas is a half-day workshop that proves that generating ideas doesn’t just have to depend on brainstorming. An understanding of the creative process, allied with a flexible armoury of idea generation exercises and techniques and problem solving activities can make an enormous difference to the creative thinking and skills of individuals, teams and whole organisations who need fresh thinking to generate or maintain competitive advantage.

Creative Thinking and Problem Solving course starts with an understanding of the nature of creative thinking and a structured approach to problem solving. It is this understanding and structure that allows participants to learn quickly how to solve problems, generate fresh ideas and then work with those ideas effectively.

For more information about our creativity courses de Bono Thinking Tools.