Everyone has a natural creative side, but it’s not always easy to tap into it – especially if your creative muscle hasn’t been flexed for a while. The good news is, you can condition those muscles by learning a few creative thinking techniques to enhance your creativity in the workplace and your personal life.

If you want to develop your creativity, Unleashing Your Creativity is an online program that will explore the characteristics of creative people, how to build creative thinking techniques to arrive at creative ideas, including via brainstorming and role-playing. 

You will also learn how to verify creative ideas by using research and simulations, and how to enhance and build upon suitable creative ideas to benefit your organisation.

On completion of this course, you will be able to suggest, verify and enhance ideas effectively. This will unleash your creative capabilities and help you foster them in colleagues as well.

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes achieved by this creative thinking techniques course include: 

• Enhancing creativity in the workplace
• Share and contribute ideas
• Personal characteristics of creative people
• Overcoming personal barriers to creativity
• Enhancing creativity
• Promoting and fostering team creativity
• Five brainstorming steps
• Roleplaying to generate creative ideas
• Stages of the creative process
• Purpose and activities of each stage
• Clear, relevant, and practical ideas
• Adopting canvassing and simulation methods
• Three steps use when building an idea
• Evaluate the effectiveness of a suggestion
• Checking the workability of an idea
• Build on ideas effectively
• Developing a team of creative gurus
• Cultivating cross-functional team collaboration
• Leading innovation

 

What is Creative Thinking? 

Thinking creatively is simply the ability to look at things differently. Creative thinkers see situations and problems in a different light and can offer unique solutions. 

Creative thinking techniques are not just for ‘creative-types’ like artists, actors, and musicians. In fact, creative thinking skills are essential across many industries, from science to medicine and business. 

So, whether you regard yourself as creative or not, you can learn how to think creatively by tapping into your ‘right-brain’ thinking and spark innovation in your business, career, or personal life. 

 

8 Creative Thinkers Who Changed the World   

Creative thinkers are important in business, science, medicine, and the arts. These eight notable people were creative thinkers who changed the world in one of these industries. 

1. Albert Einstein

One of the most famous scientists of all time, Einstein’s theory of relativity is one of the two pillars of modern-day physics! 

2. Oprah Winfrey 

American talk show host, actress, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Winfrey tackled issues such as abuse, infidelity, racism, and addiction and created charitable foundations that made a real difference in people’s lives. 

3. J.K Rowling 

British author and screenwriter famous for the much-loved Harry Potter series has received many awards for her contribution to literature, including an OBE for services to children’s literature and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. 

4. Elon Musk 

An engineer, industrial designer, tech-entrepreneur and philanthropist, Musk is the creative mind behind PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla. 

5. Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was an American inventor, designer and entrepreneur who was the co-founder, chief executive, and chairman of Apple. Apple’s innovative products, which include the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, dictated the advancement of modern technology.

6. Elizabeth Kenny 

Sister Elizabeth Kenny was a self-trained Australian outback nurse who developed a new method for treating people with poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio, which was controversial at the time.

7. Leonardo Da Vinci

A painter, an architect, an engineer, and theatrical producer, Leonardo Da Vinci wore many different hats, but primarily he was a painter. The Mona Lisa is the most famous of his works and the most famous portrait ever made. 

8. Marie Curie 

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in Physics, and with her later win, in Chemistry, she became the first person to claim Nobel honours twice. Her efforts with her husband Pierre led to the discovery of polonium and radium, and she inspired the development of X-rays.

 

5 Creative Careers for Creative Thinkers 

The following five careers prove that whether your passion is business, law, science, medicine, or the arts – there’s no shortage of career options that call for creative thinking techniques. 

 

1. Digital & Social Media Marketer 

A digital marketer promotes a company’s products or services online. The role is responsible for marketing campaigns and finding opportunities to increase online revenue. Creative thinking techniques are important to explore new ways to generate online traffic. 

2. Research Scientist 

Research scientists are responsible for conducting experiments and reporting their findings in detailed papers. This role relies heavily on creative thinking techniques as they devise new and often unconventional ideas for experiments and research. 

3. Public Relations Manager 

Helping people and businesses to maintain a positive public image, public relations managers require strong writing skills to create compelling (and creative) angles for press releases, speeches, articles, and advertising materials. 

4. Copywriter 

A copywriter creates engaging (and highly creative) content for many platforms, including social media, websites, television, or print. Copywriters need strong written communication skills, attention to detail, the ability to balance several projects and, of course, creative thinking skills.

5. Lawyer 

Lawyers prepare legal documents and appear before courts of law to defend clients for criminal or civil cases. This profession must use creative thinking skills to interpret the law and legal precedents as it applies to their client’s unique case.  

 

Are you interested in developing creative thinking techniques? Enrol in Unleash Your Creativity today and discover how to think differently for success!