This course aims to provide an understanding of the two basic thinking styles required for creative thinking; assess your preferred style, using tools appropriate for each thinking style, and identify how to best use these thinking styles in the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) learning cycle intrinsic to lean thinking. The test can be conveniently taken from the comfort of ones home, library, or workplace. Upon successful completion and passing of the test a digital certificate will be issued to validate ones achievement.
Course Overview
1.What is Creative Thinking?
2.The Four Key Principles of Creative Thinking
3.What are Creative Thinking Skills
4.Examples of Creative Thinking Skills
5.How to use Creative Thinking skills at work
6.Methods of encouraging Creative Thinking
7.Why process improvement depends on Creative Thinking
8.Isn’t Process Improvement Incompatible with Creativity?
9.Benefits of Creative Thinking
10.How to add creative thinking to Lean Thinking
11.Key elements found most effective in Creative Thinking
12.The power of creativity in process improvement projects
13.Application of Creative Thinking
14.Conclusion & Sources
Course Objective
Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
- Know why divergent thinking and convergent thinking are important and why we can’t do them at the same time
- Be able to identify when divergent thinking and convergent thinking are needed in a PDCA cycle
- Know what thinking style you are most comfortable with
- Know two tools for each thinking style
- Know the questions a manager should never ask
Target Audience:
Creative Thinking can be used by R&D leaders, product development leaders, project managers, engineers, scientists, product development team members, lean deployment professionals charged with lean transformation in R&D or product development
Estimated time to complete:
Open format, self-paced
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 29 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Creative Thinking34
- 1.1What is Creative Thinking?
- 1.2The Four Key Principles of Creative Thinking
- 1.3What are creative thinking skills?
- 1.4Examples of creative thinking skills (and how to use them)
- 1.5How to use creative thinking skills at work?
- 1.6Methods of Encouraging Creative Thinking
- 1.7Brainstorming
- 1.8How to Distinguish the Two Types of Creative Thinking
- 1.9Creative Thinking Quiz 15 Questions
- 1.10Practice Using the Two Types of Creative Thinking
- 1.11Guidelines of the two types of Thinking
- 1.12Two tools for divergent thinking (ALL divergent thinking tools are based on brainstorming)
- 1.13Illustration of Brainstorming Sheet
- 1.14Brainstorming Structure
- 1.15The Creative Rhythm and PDCA
- 1.16Why Process Improvement Depends on Creative Thinking
- 1.17Isn’t Process Improvement Incompatible with Creativity?
- 1.18Creative Thinking Quiz 25 Questions
- 1.19Improve Your Convergent Thinking
- 1.20Develop Better Divergent Thinking
- 1.21Bring Your Creativity Together
- 1.22Benefits of Creative Thinking
- 1.23How to Add Creative Thinking to Lean Thinking
- 1.24A couple of key elements that found most effective
- 1.25The Power of Creativity in Process Improvement Projects
- 1.26Creative Thinking Quiz 32 Questions
- 1.27Breaking Free from Conventional Thinking
- 1.28Fostering a Culture of Innovation
- 1.29Solving Complex Problems
- 1.30Creative Thinking Quiz 42 Questions
- 1.31Enhancing Customer Experience
- 1.32Empowering Cross-functional Collaboration
- 1.33Application of Creative Thinking
- 1.34Creative Thinking Final Quiz5 Questions
Target audiences
- Creative Thinking can be used by R&D leaders, product development leaders, project managers, engineers, scientists, product development team members, lean deployment professionals charged with lean transformation in R&D or product development