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Turning Ideas into Gold: Essentials Workshop

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Workshop Description

Consider these scenarios:

  • You are in the midst of an important project when you encountered a tough problem, don’t you wish you can generate a few ideas to resolve the situation?
  • Your current process is inefficient and obsolete; your boss wants you to find a better way. How are you going to find new ideas to improve it?
  • Recession is round the corner. You need to think of various ways to reduce cost and improve profit margin.
  • Your major customer expresses the need for a unique solution and looks upon you to help him create it. How are you going to think out-of-the-box to help your customer?

If these scenarios are familiar and close to your heart, then this workshop is for you.

All of us are born creative. You can rediscover your creative thinking mind through our fun and interactive workshop.

Workshop Objectives

At the end of this workshop, the participants will be able to:

  • Understand the differences between creativity and innovation
  • Convert Ideas Killers into Ideas Growers
  • Understand the various phases in the Wheel of Innovation
  • Utilize the various Ideas Generation Techniques to generate 1000 ideas in 28 minutes
  • Systematically select the best of the best ideas out of the 1000 generated
  • And lots more.

Workshop Content

  • Introduction to Creativity and Innovation
  • Ideas Killers and Ideas Growers
  • The Wheel of Innovation
  • The Innovative Mindset
  • Formulation of Innovation Statements
  • Ideas Generation Techniques
  • Ideas Selection Technique
    • o Perspective-Criteria Matrix
  • Incubation Technique – P.E.N.S.
  • Presentation of Ideas

Intended Audience:

This is an introductory workshop designed for professionals and managers who want to TURN IDEAS INTO GOLD. It is suitable for anyone who seeks better and faster ways of resolving problems and/or optimizing opportunities. There is no pre-requisites for this workshop.

Workshop Methodology

This dynamic highly interactive workshop will be conducted with a good blend of instruction, problem brain-storming, discussions and games. Participants are encouraged to bring their real-life ideas / problems to the class for discussions and ideas generation.

Workshop Duration:

2 days or 3 days (with additional Selling Ideas workshop)