CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

Enhancing Analytical & Creative Thinking Skills

Smart companies need smart thinking people. For a company to grow and flourish and move beyond the business barriers to creativity and change, people must transform and breakthrough in their thinking abilities. It challenges the old paradigm and helps managers and executives to truly break out of the box... breakthrough thinking in action!

This programme develops the techniques of thinking, which can be enhanced and improved through attention, practice and use of various analytical and creative tools. The operating skills are quite different from intelligence and very often many intelligent people are actually bad thinkers because they are caught in the “intelligence trap”.

Objectives

Upon completion of this programme, you will be able to:

· Free your mind and open doors to better problem-solving skills in your organisation

· Consider all factors (CAF) when analysing

· Transform decision-making effectiveness

· Set better aims, goals and objectives (AGO)

· Inspire more successful teamwork

· Encourage more effective communication

· Stimulate more new and creative ideas

· Build up more powerful thinking skills

· Apply the analytical and creative skills

Who Should Attend

Mid Level Managers

Managers and Executives who need to develop their thinking skills to resolve and prevent problems, come up with new products or services and make positive changes in the organisation

Learning Outcome

At the end of this programme, you will have gained the following knowledge and learning:

· Systematic problem-solving

· Creative approach in problem-solving

· Create new products or services

· Resolve difficult situations

· Anticipate conflicts and problematic situations

· Strengthen your thinking process

Programme Outline

Day 1

Thinking as a Skill

· Developing Thinking As a Skill

· Developing the Big-Four: Respect-Trust-Commitment-Recognition

· Analytical Thinking versus Creative Thinking

· Eight Thinking Pitfalls to Avoid

Enhancing Analytical Thinking Skills

· Situation Review and Environmental Scanning

· Analysing Problems, Objectives and Solutions

· Problem Potential Analysis

· Vertical and Deliberate Thinking

Day 2

Enhancing Creative Power Thinking Tool

· Improving Brainstorming Application

· Applying Practical Lateral Thinking

· Fish-Boning Techniques

· Mastering Force-field Analysis

Breakthrough and Transformational Thinking

· What is Breakthrough Thinking?

· What is Transformational Thinking?

· Application of Breakthrough and Transformational Thinking

· Thinking Simulation and Practice

Training Facilitator

Peter Chin, AMIM, MIM-CPT

New Zealand Certificate in Commerce (NZCC),

Accounting (Technician Certification Authority, New Zealand),

MBA (University of Bath, UK)

Administrative Details

Fees:

MIM Member: RM1,300

Non-Member: RM1,600

Duration:

2 days

Time:

9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Venue:

MIM Management House

Kuala Lumpur

Dates:

· 14-15 April 2008

· 21-22 July 2008

· 20-21 November 2008

PSMB Scheme:

CPD Hours: