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?Copy
- 1.2The Four Key Principles of Creative ThinkingCopy
- 1.3What are creative thinking skills? Copy
- 1.4Examples of creative thinking skills (and how to use them) Copy
- 1.5How to use creative thinking skills at work? Copy
- 1.6Methods of Encouraging Creative ThinkingCopy
- 1.7BrainstormingCopy
- 1.8How to Distinguish the Two Types of Creative ThinkingCopy
- 1.9Creative Thinking Quiz 1Copy5 Questions
- 1.10Practice Using the Two Types of Creative ThinkingCopy
- 1.11Guidelines of the two types of ThinkingCopy
- 1.12Two tools for divergent thinking (ALL divergent thinking tools are based on brainstorming)Copy
- 1.13Illustration of Brainstorming SheetCopy
- 1.14Brainstorming StructureCopy
- 1.15The Creative Rhythm and PDCACopy
- 1.16Why Process Improvement Depends on Creative ThinkingCopy
- 1.17Isn’t Process Improvement Incompatible with Creativity?Copy
- 1.18Creative Thinking Quiz 2Copy5 Questions
- 1.19Improve Your Convergent ThinkingCopy
- 1.20Develop Better Divergent ThinkingCopy
- 1.21Bring Your Creativity TogetherCopy
- 1.22Benefits of Creative ThinkingCopy
- 1.23How to Add Creative Thinking to Lean ThinkingCopy
- 1.24A couple of key elements that found most effectiveCopy
- 1.25The Power of Creativity in Process Improvement ProjectsCopy
- 1.26Creative Thinking Quiz 3Copy2 Questions
- 1.27Breaking Free from Conventional ThinkingCopy
- 1.28Fostering a Culture of InnovationCopy
- 1.29Solving Complex ProblemsCopy
- 1.30Creative Thinking Quiz 4Copy2 Questions
- 1.31Enhancing Customer ExperienceCopy
- 1.32Empowering Cross-functional CollaborationCopy
- 1.33Application of Creative ThinkingCopy
- 1.34Creative Thinking Final QuizCopy5 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