Who should attend:
Anyone wishing to learn how to use creative thinking
to:
- Solve business problems.
- Generate new ideas and
products.
- Use creative thinking for day to day business
improvement.
- Be successful in managing organisational
change.
- Be better at decision making.
Keep their company
competitive now and in the future!
The course will give you confidence in
you own creative ability and simple to understand creative thinking tools
and techniques that really work. It is
designed to be used by anyone at any level - even if they think they're not
creative.
Duration:
One Day (10 - 5 pm)
Objectives:
This course uses presentations, examples and
exercises to introduce theories of creative thinking, practical
creativity techniques from musical activities and performance and provides
an inventory of creative thinking tools and techniques that can be quickly
understood and used. This is practical and interactive course
which requires no previous knowledge of creativity or music.
Topics and Content:
Session One
- Myths, Facts and Rumours about creative thinking.
- Defining creativity.
- Music and creative thinking.
- Finding and developing your own creativity.
- First steps in becoming a creative thinker
Session Two
- Using
creative thinking for problem solving and idea generation.
- Generating and evaluating ideas.
- Recognising and removing blocks to creative
thinking
- Music and Innovation
- More on becoming a creative thinker
Session Three
- Applying creative thinking to real problems
- Putting your creativity to the test
- Managing resistance to new ideas
- Herding cats - managing creative people
- Discussion and summary
Costs:
Total course fee is £200 + VAT (£235 total) This includes a
course workbook.
To book this course or for further
information please send a blank email
to
cmb_twilight@freeautobot.com
Trainer Backgrounds:
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Maria Thomas
Maria Thomas is a musician with wide experience of
performing, leading workshops and management.
After working in the Orchestral Management department at the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden, Maria started her own business supplying tailored
music workshops to schools, local authorities and other organisations. Maria
has also been instrumental in the launch of the new professional chamber
orchestra the Manning Camerata
which launched earlier this year.
She
has a BMus (hons) and an LTCL from Trinity College of Music, London
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Brian Hunt
Brian Hunt has a business and engineering background and has worked
at all organisational levels from shop floor to senior management.
Over the
last ten years he has been creatively applying his design and engineering
experience to helping organisations simplify their business processes
and quality management systems. He has a special interest in
creative thinking and ideas schemes in organisations.
He also runs
the websites www.creativeideas.org.uk and
www.sanguma.com
He has a BSc from the Open University, and an MSc from the University of
Hertfordshire.
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