INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPING HIGHLY CREATIVE STRATEGIES IN INNOVATION USING NLP IN MANUFACTURING AND WORK PROCESSES FOR LEADERS AND MANAGERS

An inspirational two-day creativity and innovation training course to develop creative thinking – for managers and work team leaders. This workshop incorporates tools and ideas used in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) that make a real difference by enhancing and developing your skills in creativity and innovation to achieve significant results.

Creativity and innovation are integral to an organization’s ability to survive and thrive in today’s competitive marketplace. This course provides participants with an understanding of how creativity and innovation can be facilitated and managed in a work setting. Participants will learn about theoretical conceptualizations of creativity and innovation as well as practical applications involved in fostering creativity and innovation in the workplace. Participants will be expected to play an active role in learning through class exercises, class discussions, dialogue with guest speakers, and presentations about real (or planned) innovations in organizations; whether it be to increase output, enhance productivity, efficiency or cost-effectiveness.

And indeed in these challenging times of economic slowdown, leaders are feeling and facing much more stress, especially in delivering diverse solutions to our customers. So, why not decide now to choose to learn and develop new ways to improve our critical and creative thinking abilities instead of waiting or relying on the flickers of inspiration, to deliver those innovative solutions which our customers now demand?

COURSE AIM

This practical course will provide managers and specialists with a range of simple creative thinking techniques that they can use to generate ideas, solve problems and be highly innovative at work whether to reduce cost or improve productivity. Real-life work problems and opportunities can be built into the workshop, enabling participants to leave with some ideas and potential solutions that can be implemented at work.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the two-day creative thinking training, the participants will have:

After completing this course, the students should be able to:

• Understanding the application of NLP in Innovative and Creative Mind processes
• Explain the key aspects of the innovative process.
• Validate why creativity and innovation are important for entrepreneurial and corporate growth.
• Assess creative development and prescribe a plan of action to enhance the ability to think more creatively and foster innovation at the workplace.
• Apply four primary tools for encouraging individual and group creativity.
• Understand Supply Chain Management and apply it to improve Process Flow.
• Applying NLP techniques to facilitate creativity and innovation.
• Explain and Explore the primary dimensions of the Levels of Change in people, processes, products and environment.

LEARNING METHODS USED

In this fun-filled highly experiential training, the training facilitator adopts a coaching and facilitative approach. It is very important to engage the participants in reviewing their outcomes in enhancing productivity or reducing costs.

The fun-filled activities are designed to illustrate key issues that the participants are facing in achieving excellence and greater performance as a change leader at work by using management tools to create illustrations, demonstrations and activities such as role plays, Creative and Strategic Problem Solving exercises, advance brainstorming, reversal techniques and group discussions.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Suitable for All HODs, General Managers, Operations Managers, Plant Managers and Engineers; this creative thinking course is designed to help enhance creativity and promote the generation of innovative ideas.

COURSE OVERVIEW

DAY 1

• Benefits of using a creative approach
  • Introduction to NLP and the creative mind processes
  • Facilitator presentation, participant personal introductions and icebreaker

• Recognising the difference between creativity & innovation
  • Understanding the cycle of innovation
  • Facilitator presentation and group discussion

• Breaking through thought patterns and assumptions
  • Recognising left and right brain thinking
  • Identifying how creative we are
  • Individual creative thinking exercise, group review and self-assessment questionnaire
  • How the Body and Mind Connect to Shift Thinking
  • Exercise: Applying Eye Cues to Elicit Outstanding Creativity

• Strategic Situational Analysis
  • Strategic planning involves analysis of the current situation
  • SWOT analysis – understanding the current situation
  • Option Evaluation – Next possible steps to Move Forward

• Methods and tools for generating ideas
  • Brainstorming or ‘piggy-backing’ thinking session
  • Reverse Brainstorming for Highly Creative Cost Reduction
  • Sort cards or mind maps
  • Visualization techniques to turn-on the Creative Mind
  • Identifying when best to use each idea generation technique
  • Facilitator technique demonstration with group plus learning review

DAY 2

• Creative problem solving
  • Creative problem-solving techniques
  • Using the problem checklist and the Power of Chunking
  • Productive Thinking Skills – Divergent versus Convergent Thinking
  • Root Causes of Inefficiencies and Weaknesses in Systems
  • Applying to work-related problems – areas of cost-effectiveness
  • Facilitator demonstration of techniques, group exercise and problem-solving game

• Supply Chain Management
  • Describe the steps in the resource planning process
  • Classify material management problems.
  • Appraise how a structured process for Supply Chain Management planning enhances decision-making in process efficiency and productivity.
  • Case Study: Identity and Resolving Areas of Weakness

• Implementation, Monitor & Control
  • Control and monitor the implementation of a strategy using a feedback/monitoring model
  • Describe the steps involved with the strategic evaluation and control process:
    • Process Flow
    • Work Flow
    • Output/Result monitoring

• Applying the learning to Current Work Process
  • Innovation and Change Management
  • Developing Creative Break-through in a Challenging & Changing Situations
  • ‘Calm Water’ Metaphor – Implementing and Freezing Change
  • Exploring and Turning creative ideas into innovative action in People or Products or Processes (Services) Innovation
  • Advanced Brainstorming: Up Lifting the Company’s Business to the next level

• Reviewing the learning and next steps
  • Review of learning and action planning

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