Today's environment demands creative solutions. In this unique one-day workshop, you'll use our proven CREATIVE FOCUS processes to generate new solutions to your toughest business challenges, and put the positive force of new ideas to work. You'll learn new tools, techniques, and strategies to be a more creative problem solver, and help your team increase its capacity for innovation.

Tomorrow's winners will be people who can go beyond left-brained thinking. If you can't think in new ways about problems and challenges, you'll be stuck in the past. Tomorrow's winners will be people with the full range of thinking skills:

• Not just implementers, but also creators.
• Not just number crunchers, but also meaning makers.
• Not just the details, but also the big picture.
• Not just function, but also design.
• Not just logic, but also intuition.
• Not just observers, but pattern recognizers.

Key Outcomes

	Transform your problems into a framework that facilitates creative solutions.
	Use the principle of incubation to give yourself many opportunities to be inspired in seeking solutions.
	Learn new mental models for sizing up situations and seeing the big picture.
	Generate new ideas using the best tools for creative thinking.
	Generate new options when existing ways won't work.
	Use pattern recognition techniques to develop new insights and perspectives about a problem or situation.
	Know when to act on your instincts and when to stop and analyze.
	Learn strategies to coax creative solutions from non-creative people.
	Effectively prioritize and evaluate ideas in groups.
	Turn your creative ideas into solution plans.
	Stimulate breakthrough ideas, methods, and approaches.

CREATIVE FOCUS Modules

Creative Process	Engage your "other" brain. Identify which problems can benefit most from creative solutions and which require more analytical techniques. Learn framing techniques to initiate the creative problem solving process.
Fluency	Stimulate large quantities of ideas.  The aim of fluency thinking techniques is to generate lots of ideas. You'll learn tools that go way beyond brainstorming to find fresh, innovative ideas and solutions.
Intuition	You know more than you think you know. Developing your intuition skills will make you a better decision maker. You'll learn tools to help you test your instincts and build your intuitive problem solving skills.
Flexibility	View possibilities from different perspectives. In this module, you'll use techniques to challenge your habitual thought patterns and view issues from completely different perspectives.
Originality	Combine ideas, concepts and perspectives. You'll learn how to create new solutions by combining seemingly unrelated concepts and ideas. You'll learn techniques to generate truly original solutions.
Idea Management	How to develop raw ideas into practical solutions. You'll learn techniques to organize and evaluate ideas, and create a blueprint for turning promising ideas into effective solutions.