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Overview
Innovation slows when teams stay locked onto the wrong problem or settle for the first safe option. Acceleration, overload and rising expectations mean organizations need creative thinking that is disciplined, practical and tied to outcomes. In this 3-hour mastery workshop, participants bring live creative challenges and work through a shared scenario that keeps ideas anchored in real constraints. The session focuses on reframing the core problem, widening perspective without drifting, combining unlikely inputs and running the smallest possible test experiments, sharpened through structured peer challenge. Participants leave with straightforward routines that keep innovative thinking active in day-to-day delivery and lift the quality of creative progress over time.
Prerequisites
Participants should have:
- Experience leading teams, projects, or cross-departmental initiatives.
- A working understanding of organisational strategy and innovation practices.
- A willingness to experiment with facilitation techniques and creative problem-solving tools.
Target audience
- Senior professionals, innovation leads, and change agents seeking to build organizational creativity.
- Leaders responsible for driving transformation, strategic planning, or new product and service development.
- Professionals aiming to cultivate collaboration and creative confidence across diverse teams.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the principles and enablers that guide creative mastery in modern work.
- Use creative tools to reframe, test, and improve ideas under real-world conditions.
- Apply reflective questioning to reframe assumptions and uncover new creative possibilities.
- Design visible habits and routines that embed creative thinking into daily work.
What will the course cover?
- Exploring core principles: Live creative challenges are framed against modern pressures, then anchored in shared principles for practical originality.
- Creative design lab: Concept lenses stretch thinking through reframing, combination and smallest test experiments with real next steps captured.
- Peer challenge lab: Peer challenge breaks weak frames and assumptions, turning “more ideas” into sharper options and better decisions.
- Creative thinking today and beyond: Routines and mechanisms are set to keep curiosity, iteration and collaboration active in daily delivery.
Exams and assessments
There are no formal examinations for this workshop. Learners will take part in collaborative exercises, selfassessment activities, and practical challenges designed to evaluate how effectively they apply creative and analytical thinking in their work.
Hands-on learning
This session includes:
Participants will take part in live facilitation practice, guided creative workshops, and teambased innovation simulations. Through peer feedback and expert coaching, learners will refine techniques for supporting collaboration, managing ideation complexity, and applying creative thinking in their work.
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