Creative Thinking for Managers

Creative Thinking for Managers

Introduction

So, what is Creative Thinking and why is it so critical to today’s Managers? Creative Thinking simply means, the ability to come up with new and unique ideas or solutions! Today, more than ever, Managers are expected devise new and creative ways to improve service, quality, processes, systems, culture, performance and results!

The performance of a Manager is directly tied to his/her ability to use an arsenal of Thinking Tools and the absolute maturity to ask the Right Question that come with those types of thinking. The ability to think and lead at a higher level is what separates real leaders from accidental ones. This is why Creative Thinking is so crucial to today’s Managers. The ability to think and develop creative ideas or solutions also paves way for promotion and job success.

This 2-day Self-empowerment program equips the Managers with knowledge, skills and tools of an arsenal of Creative Thinking Tools to improve their leadership capabilities in generating creative ideas and solutions.

Organization

Diya Training & Development Consultancy Sdn Bhd

Outcome

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

- Learn the importance of creativity and out-of-box thinking to your role as leaders and to solve problems effectively
- Develop basic creative / out-of-box thinking skills
- Adopt proactive thinking and take initiative, ownership and responsibility
- Challenge the status quo by applying disruptive leadership thinking
- Learn advanced questioning skills by asking the right questions as leaders when solving problems, holding staff accountable or arriving at a decision
- Learn reframing technique to help change a person’s negative perspective
- Use abundance thinking to influence people to go for win-win
- Use divergent & convergent thinking tools to discover possibilities and the right solution
- Use analytical, critical, logical, design thinking and strategic thinking tools to improve your leadership creativity to address various challenging situations at the workplace

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No	Topic	Topic Description
1	Module 1 – Creative Thinking Fundamentals	What challenges do you face? How do you effectively solve problems? What is creative thinking? The purpose of creative thinking Specific uses of creative thinking Why is creative thinking so vital to managers? Left brain vs. Right brain – What does the research say? Are creative thinkers born or made? Can we develop our creativity? The 5 key behaviours to optimize your creative brain Group exercise – qualities of a creative thinker? How to develop creative thinking? Are you a creative person? Creativity boosting exercises
2	Module 2 – Creative Thinking Tools	Paradigm-shift & Proactive Thinking What can you see & learn? Do you believe you can? How do you respond to adversity? What is a paradigm / shift? Proactive thinking How do you make the right decisions, everytime? Group discussion Victimized thinking – the opposite of creative thinking Challenging the Statue Quo What status quo situations should you challenge? Disruptive leadership thinking self-assessment exercise Advance Communication Tools Do you ask the right questions? How leaders ask the right questions? Re-engineering your thinking to be more solution-focused Re-engineering exercises to hold people accountable Re-framing technique to influence a person’s paradigm
3	Module 3 - Abundance Thinking	Abundance Thinking Abundance vs. Scarcity thinking – why it matters to you Applying abundance / win-win thinking at work Case study Analytical & Critical Thinking Skills What are analytical & critical thinking skills? Qualities of a critical thinking leader The red model & steps of critical thinking Exercise – applying analytical & critical thinking skills Logical Thinking Skills What is logical thinking & why is it important to you? Deductive reasoning Exercise – applying logical thinking to situation you face Design Thinking, Divergent & Convergent Thinking What is design thinking? The 5 stages of design thinking Pov method Root cause techniques Divergent & convergent thinking Strategic Thinking Skills Are you a strategic thinker? What is strategic thinking & why is it important to you? When to use strategic thinking? Exercise – thinking strategically to conduct internal & external strategic analysis of their environment / swot Re-cap, summary

Topic

Topic Description

Module 1 – Creative Thinking Fundamentals

What challenges do you face?

How do you effectively solve problems?

What is creative thinking?

The purpose of creative thinking

Specific uses of creative thinking

Why is creative thinking so vital to managers?

Left brain vs. Right brain – What does the research say?

Are creative thinkers born or made?
Can we develop our creativity?
The 5 key behaviours to optimize your creative brain
Group exercise – qualities of a creative thinker?
How to develop creative thinking?

Are you a creative person?

Creativity boosting exercises

Module 2 – Creative Thinking Tools

Paradigm-shift & Proactive Thinking

What can you see & learn?
Do you believe you can?
How do you respond to adversity?
What is a paradigm / shift?
Proactive thinking
How do you make the right decisions, everytime?
Group discussion
Victimized thinking – the opposite of creative thinking

Challenging the Statue Quo

What status quo situations should you challenge?
Disruptive leadership thinking self-assessment exercise

Advance Communication Tools

Do you ask the right questions?
How leaders ask the right questions?
Re-engineering your thinking to be more solution-focused
Re-engineering exercises to hold people accountable
Re-framing technique to influence a person’s paradigm

Module 3 - Abundance Thinking

Abundance Thinking

Abundance vs. Scarcity thinking – why it matters to you
Applying abundance / win-win thinking at work
Case study

Analytical & Critical Thinking Skills

What are analytical & critical thinking skills?
Qualities of a critical thinking leader
The red model & steps of critical thinking
Exercise – applying analytical & critical thinking skills

Logical Thinking Skills

What is logical thinking & why is it important to you?
Deductive reasoning
Exercise – applying logical thinking to situation you face

Design Thinking, Divergent & Convergent Thinking

What is design thinking?
The 5 stages of design thinking
Pov method
Root cause techniques
Divergent & convergent thinking

Strategic Thinking Skills

Are you a strategic thinker?
What is strategic thinking & why is it important to you?
When to use strategic thinking?
Exercise – thinking strategically to conduct internal & external strategic analysis of their environment / swot

Re-cap, summary

Expert

Sunny Savinderjit Singh

Savinderjit Singh (or Sunny as he is commonly known as) is a professional with 27 years of LEADERSHIP experience from 4 industries, including 15 years as a professional CONSULTANT TRAINER in the training and consulting business. Sunny brings a wealth of working experience at both Strategic & Operational levels from the following 4 industries: 1. Hospitality Industry2. Petroleum and Logistics Industry3. Education Industry4. Training & Consulting (present) Throughout his illustrious career in all these industries, Sunny has acquired tremendous experience in people and organizational development at both operational and strategic levels which includes functions such as Human Resources, Policy-Making, Administration, Operations, Sales and Training functions. Upon leaving employment in 2006, Sunny embarked on his dream quest as a professional Consultant Trainer and founded Diya Training, a professional Sdn Bhd training and consulting company. Sunny's passion and knowledge for training and development has led him to formulate, design and deliver DIYA's very own signature Leadership, Culture-Building, Service, Sales, Strategy & Performance Improvement Programs for HODs, Execs, Supervisors and Non-Execs (top-down approach). Besides training, Sunny's PROJECT consulting experience include Balanced Scorecard & KPIs PROJECT, Performance Management & Appraisal PROJECT, Leadership Culture PROJECT and Culture Transformational PROJECT. Sunny's world class programs and facilitation skills have met with very high scores and approval ratings from leading international corporations, leading MNC companies (American, Japanese and European) and local public-listed companies all over Malaysia. This includes consulting work. In short, Sunny has conducted training and consulting work for 8 industries. Feedback received is nothing less than excellent! (Diya FB Page, Diya Website and up-coming HRDF Training Effectiveness. Sunny's trademark includes creating highly engaging and learning environment and at the same time equipping participants with practical step-by-step tools to apply back at the workplace. Sunny has conducted training & consulting work for 8 industries over the past 15 years. Sunny is a Certified Train The Trainer from PSMB and founder and Managing Consultant of Diya Training & Development Consultancy Sdn Bhd.