Effective Project Creativity Techniques
Creative Thinking for Projects
The demands on Project Managers and Business Analysts are increasing beyond those of basic technical skills to now include facilitator, mentor, creative thinker and innovator. In today’s business climate, job functions that are repeatable, predictable and stable are candidates to be outsourced. We can safe guard the role of Project Manager and Business Analyst by supplementing existing well-defined processes with creative thinking. To do this we must first understand our own thinking patterns and learn how to utilize our whole brain. Whole brain thinking enhances living, logic, intuition, analytical skill, and leadership abilities. By using whole brain thinking, the impossible becomes possible.
This 2-session virtual course Effective Project Creativity Techniques will help attendees build excitement and enthusiasm on their teams by learning creative techniques that geniuses like Leonardo da Vinci leveraged. Implementing these practices will differentiate your projects and yourself. Attendees will leave with ideas on how to spawn new solutions to problems and methods to engage and excite teams. Class participants will also take part in exercises to improve creative thinking and problem solving.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course is intended for Project Managers, Business Analysts and any project personnel wanting to inject innovation into work life and teams. This course is appropriate for anyone looking to be more creative, seeking methods to inspire themselves and others, and wanting to learn mind mapping and art techniques.
COURSE FEATURES
This 2-session course on Effective Project Creativity Techniques will cover the skills needed for innovative problem solving on projects. This course includes many creative exercises, including a brain test. Upon completion of this one-day course, you will be able to:
· Kick off your project in a new and fun way
· Apply new brainstorming techniques
· Explain and use Mind Mapping
· Employ tips from geniuses
· Use visual problem solving methods
· Describe your brain dominance (right or left)
· Deal with creative and logical minds
· Feel comfortable saying what needs to be said
· Tell the story of your project
· Leverage artistic techniques that make project deliverables design appealing
· Apply Strategies for dealing with change and stress
COURSE OUTLINE
Creativity and Innovation
· Eight simple practices to use everyday
· Project Differentiators
· Principles of art and design
Visual Problem Solving Methods
· How to solve problems
· Productive thinking
· Learning to see what no one else sees
· Abstract the problem
· Finding the missing links
· Tools and Diagrams
Mind Mapping
· Project Case Study
· Mind Mapping process
· Maps and tools
Pursuit of Whole Brain Thinking
· Creativity Test
· Linear Thinking
· Random Thinking
Corporate Creativity
· Corporate collage
· Project vision
· Project journaling
SUPPLIES NEEDED
Pencil, ink pens (black, red, blue), fresh notebook or journal, color pencils, markers, scissors, glue and a couple favorite magazines.
KNOWLEDGE AREAS ADDRESSED
This course addresses the following knowledge areas of the Project Management Institute’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge:
- Project Communications Management
- Project Human Resource Management
- Project Scope Management
- Project Integration Management
- Project Risk Management
Duration: 2 evenings
Earn: 7 PDUs
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Eastern