CREATIVE THINKING

Overview

In a dynamic landscape, organizations face challenges from evolving customer expectations, societal responsibilities, and the need for inclusivity. To thrive and stay competitive, leaders and employees must adopt creative thinking enabling them to identify opportunities, drive innovation, collaborate effectively, and differentiate the organization through unique solutions.

Course Description & Learning Outcomes

The course, Creative Thinking, is a critical core skill endorsed by SkillsFuture Singapore. It provides learners with a process to develop and apply creative thinking. It helps learners to understand how data may be collected and analysed to yield insights into user needs. It gives learners the techniques to engage in divergent and convergent thinking, both of which are essential in innovation. It provides learners with the concept to design and conduct experimentation and iteration. When learners apply these competencies, they will be able to collaborate with others to apply creative thinking to a problem and propose innovative solutions. Course Outline Pre-read Personal mindset • Introduction to learning and unlearning for Good Work • Unlearn to Learn • Influences on Mindset Unit 1: Creative Thinking Process • The Creative Thinking Process • Managing Creativity Unit 2: Identify Improvement Areas • Research and information collection tools and techniques • Analysing quantitative and qualitative data Unit 3: Idea Generation • Facilitation Techniques • Divergent and Convergent Thinking • Actionable Brainstorming • Drivers and Barriers of Innovation Unit 4: Collaborate and Communicate • Visual Communication Techniques for Impact. • Visual Tools for Collaboration Unit 5: Evaluate and Improve • Designing Iteratives Experiments • Measuring and Iterating