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The following summaries show the types of courses Andi Roberts designs and delivers in the
Practical Creativity Techniques: 1 day
The need for creativity in organisations is higher than ever as more businesses focus on delivering new products and services to retain and capture market share. The core competence in most businesses is the people and only the people in the organisation can be the catalysts for new ideas that help the business move forward in an environment of increased competition and an ever increasing speed of business. Creativity is a skill set of tools and techniques that can be learnt by anyone rather than a special gift with which some are born.
This course is a very practical and hands on one and provides a range of tools and techniques that cover the convergent and divergent aspects of the creative process. Course participants are required to bring a range of work issues they are currently challenged with to the session, so that the tools learnt can be applied to the real situations.
In this course participants will:
- Learn and practise 6 different techniques for generating ideas.
- Learn and practise 4 techniques for evaluating ideas.
- Generate ideas for a range of business issues.
- Analyse and make decisions around a range of business issues.
- Develop an action plan to take the ideas developed during the day back to work .
Business Creativity : 2 days
What value does your company put on creativity? It's not just media and high-tech companies that have to invest in the creative minds of their employees: every organization must make creativity a top priority in order to last beyond the next reporting period and in to the next year! The principle competitive advantage in the 21st century is the intellectual capital stored in the minds of the employees, that is transformed into new products, services and business improvements that decrease time to market, increase sales and reduces costs.
During the two days participants will not only learn the theory behind creativity and a range of techniques but also solve organisational issues as they apply the tools on real business issues. The course is very practical with approximately eighty percent of the course time applying techniques or tools.
In this course participants will
- Undertake the "FourSight" breakthrough thinking profile and understand personal implications of the outcomes.
- Learn and practise a range of divergent creativity techniques
- Learn and practise a range of convergent decision techniques
- Identify additional issues and challenges that could be resolved through creativity techniques
- Develop ideas on how to make the culture of their team / department / organisation more creative
- Create a creativity implementation action plan to take back to the work place
Structured problem solving : 2 Days
All organisations, in both the manufacturing and service sectors, experience problems in their operations. The problems may be technical in nature, or may be people related; the problems may be detected within the manufacturing or service organisation or, more seriously, be identified and reported by the customer. This course will allow your participants to find your problems - the true problems, define them in terms of how they effect organisation performance. Determine where to focus your limited resources to get the best resolutions in the current circumstances. Generate practical solutions that works. Implement it in such a way that the problems stays solved. This hands on workshop provides the tools to do all this and help organisations drive your organisational performance upwards.
In this course participants will:
- Recognise the various traits of simple, complex and 'wicked' problems.
- Understand the 8 phases of the 8D problem solving process.
- Learn and practice the key problem solving tools.
- Practice the Root Cauase Analysis on true business challenges.
- Understand and use a range of implementation management and planning tools.
- Comprehend the human side of problem solving through a better understanding of thinking preferences.
All courses can be delivered in English or Spanish by Andi Roberts and Andi has a broad international network if a multi language / country rollout is required.
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