Master Class - Creative Problem Solving & Decision Making
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Gone are the days when Problem Solving and Decision Making often happened within the four walls of a top boss’s cabin. In the beginning of this century – As we blinked our eyes, the world changed, cabins broke down to give way to open offices, traditional management hierarchy collapsed and saw a horizontal spread. With delegation and authority batons being passed to the executive and trainee levels, Problem Solving and Decision Making skills became a must have quality at all levels in an organization. In simple words it is – have it or leave it.
That’s less said – Just learning the skill of solving problems and taking good decisions isn’t enough. Today, the modern workplace demands the new age executives and managers to expand their potential of creative thinking and bring it to the table while solving problems and making decisions. There is one more news for you, Creativity, Problem Solving and Decision Making skills are no more confined to the management and leadership levels, students who aspire for their dream jobs to be a reality, also will have to bring these skills along with their candidature.
That is why, we decided to offer this practical and highly researched course with all these 3 skills clubbed into 1 course so that you may not have to search anywhere – anymore.
If at any point of your life, you ever felt the need to work upon your creative thinking ability or your problem solving skills or even your decision making capability, look no further, this course is just the right one for you.
Get ready to have learning with fun and tickle your hidden potentials to see the daylight as you move along with me in this course.
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Introduction to Creative ThinkingLearn to unlock your Creative Thinking skills; a companion to Critical Thinking, thereby helping you to develop novel and unorthodox solutions to the Problems.
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Thinking Styles
This lecture focuses on what Creative Thinking is and how it is related to three different types of thinking styles - Divergent, Convergent and Lateral Thinking
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Thinking Styles - Case Study
Let's take a quick glimpse of solving a problem using Divergent & Convergent Thinking Styles.
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Lateral Thinking
Introduction to Lateral thinking to bring about creativity and insight restructuring and improving creativity quotient using Right Brain.
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The Scamper Model
Trigger your mind to SCAMPER - an idea generation framework to boost creativity.
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Mind Mapping Part 1
Unleash the brain's Creativity and Potential using the Mindmap Tool. Mind mapping tool helps you think, collect knowledge, remember and create ideas. Most likely it will make you a better thinker.
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Mind Mapping Part 2
Practical application of the versatile creativity tool - Mind Mapping.
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Out of the box thinking
Hone up your out-of-the-box thinking skills. Make an effort to push your thinking beyond its limit every now and again. Think creatively, freely and off the beaten path.
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Out of the Box thinking- Exercise - Part 1
A few activities that prompts you to think creatively and try to come up with out of the box solutions.
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Out of the box thinking - Exercise - Part 2
Try out few more simple exercises to get the creative thinking flowing.
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Other Techniques - Bio-mimicry, COCD Box & Challenging Assumptions Technique.
Learn few more fantastic Creativity Techniques like:
Biomimicry : A method for creating solutions to human challenges by emulating designs and ideas found in nature.
Challenging Assumptions : A sense-making creativity technique designed to break apart a statement and discover where assumptions may be limiting your options.
COCD Box : A creative idea selection tool helping to find out the most promising ideas after an idea generation session.
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Introduction to Problem Solving
Problem-solving skills help you determine the source of a problem and find an effective solution. Although problem-solving is often identified as skill on its own, there are other related skills that contribute to this ability. This lecture will focus on those related skills.
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Clearing the Clouds
Learn few common mistakes that people make when defining their problems and how to avoid them.
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Creative Problem Solving Model
This video explains the five problem solving steps and provides strategies on how to execute each one.
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Brainstorming Technique
Learn Brainstorming - A Creative Technique, that combines a relaxed, informal approach to problem solving with lateral thinking.
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6-3-5 Brain Writing Technique
This video covers 6-3-5 Brainwriting: a group-structured brainstorming technique used for generating new unusual ideas and / or their systematic further development in a group.
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Reverse Brain Storming & Role Storming Techniques
Dive deep into few more techniques of Problem Solving:
Reverse brainstorming : helps you to solve problems by combining brainstorming and reversal techniques. By combining these, you can extend your use of brainstorming to draw out even more creative ideas.
Role Storming : a unique form of group brainstorming that involves role playing.
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Pareto Analysis
This video will take you through Pareto analysis , a formal technique used to assess and prioritize competing problems and focus your efforts on the issues that matter most.
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Drill Down Technique
The drill down technique is an excellent problem solving method for getting to the root of the problem.This technique looks to break the key problem down into its elements and hence find a solution to these factors, with the overall aim of solving the key problem.
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5 "Y" Technique
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Fish Bone Analysis - Part 1
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Fish Bone Analysis - Part 2
This video will take you through a practical case study on solving problems using Fish Bone Analysis.
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FMEA Analysis
FMEA is a structured approach to discovering potential failures that may exist within the design of a product or process and their impact on process.
