Incentives of creative thinking
Goal
- Encourage the creative thinking of the seminar participants in solving every-day problems
- Encourage searching for unconventional solutions
- Give inspiration and methods for creating new ideas
- Learn to control the activity of the brain hemispheres depending on the specifics of the task in order to optimalize the solution
- Widen the horizons, decrease the stress of everyday life, ordering of priorities, "outside of the box"
Target audience – up to 12 participants in the group
- For people of any field of activity in companies that are innovation-oriented and open to change
Methods
- Seminar in the form of presentations, discussions and training with active involvement of the participants
- The participants are divided in teams, during the entire seminar there are team presentations and competitions
- The participants retain the seminar materials
Time – optimally 2 days
Content
- Introduction: Significance of creative thinking, creative people (art, technology, business), creative thinking and innovation:
Why should we be creative?
What have creative people given to the world?
What stifles creative thinking?
The significance of creative thinking in a business context
A short practical work for the conclusion - The principles of brain operation in the context of creative and rational thinking
The operation and role of brain hemispheres
Phenomena of memory and imagination and their control
Control and stimulation of brain operation
Several practical tasks are made during this section - Paradox as a method of creative strategy and thinking
- Methods of stimulating creative thinking and imagination
Various methods for obtaining unexpected and creative solutions
Exercises for breaking the accustomed way of thinking
Innovation-oriented tasks - Creative criteria
What are the criteria that characterize creative work?
What separates creative and innovative work?
Practical tasks that involve creative criteria - Simple thinking (seeing things as they are) and its role in an "out of the box" worldview
Why do people think similarly?
How to get out of the "box" in the mind?
Independent work
Trainers – Ģirts Ozoliņš, Sandijs Lūsēns