4 Creative Thinking Hats & Free Team Ideas e-System
[Competencies: Creativity, Innovation, Thinking, Team Ideas]
Introduction to the 4 Creative Thinking Hats:
Re-invent your business, products, and yourself through innovation and revolutionary creative thinking outside the box. This is an outrageous crazy, fun, free-flowing, fast-paced creative workshop. This workshop is designed to stimulate, stretch and expand your thinking beyond the proverbial boxed-thinking.
COMPETENCIES:
OUTLINE:
• The Need to Innovate
• Butterfly Thinking
• 4 Creative Thinking Roles:
1. Explorer ▪ researching for info
2. Artist ▪ changing info into ideas
3. Judge ▪ evaluating an idea
4. Warrior ▪ implementing your idea into an action plan
COMPETENCIES:
- Creativity
- Innovation
- Team Ideas
OUTLINE:
• The Need to Innovate
• Butterfly Thinking
• 4 Creative Thinking Roles:
1. Explorer ▪ researching for info
2. Artist ▪ changing info into ideas
3. Judge ▪ evaluating an idea
4. Warrior ▪ implementing your idea into an action plan
Introduction to Free Team Ideas System
Front-line employees see a great many problems and opportunities that their managers don’t because employees are the ones doing the day-to-day work. But most organizations do very poorly at tapping into extraordinary potential source of revenue – enhancing and savings-generating ideas.
Objectives:
How to makes ideas part of everyone’s job.
How to set up and run an effective process for handling ideas
How to help people come up with more and better ideas.
How a strong flow ideas can have a profound impact on an organization’s culture.
Content Outline:
How the team idea revolution is liberating people and transforming organizations.
How to run a good Idea System
The 8 Characteristics of a Good Idea System
How to get 1 idea per staff per month.
Point 1: Go after small ideas
What makes Employees step forward with ideas?
Point 2: Stay away from trying to reward individual ideas
The obvious reasons why a Reward Scheme doesn't work
What kind of reward schemes work?
Point 3: Make ideas part of everyone's job
Point 4: Set up a Good Process to Handle ideas
The 8 Characteristics of a Good Idea System
1. Ideas are encouraged and welcomed
2. Submitting ideas is simple
3. Evaluation of ideas is quick and effective
4. Feedback is timely, constructive, and informative
5. Implementation is rapid and smooth
6. Ideas are reviewed for additional potential
7. People are recognized and success celebrated
8. Idea system performance is measured and improved
Point 5: Focus employees on the ideas you want
Point 6: Help people come up with more and better ideas
Objectives:
How to makes ideas part of everyone’s job.
How to set up and run an effective process for handling ideas
How to help people come up with more and better ideas.
How a strong flow ideas can have a profound impact on an organization’s culture.
Content Outline:
How the team idea revolution is liberating people and transforming organizations.
How to run a good Idea System
The 8 Characteristics of a Good Idea System
How to get 1 idea per staff per month.
Point 1: Go after small ideas
What makes Employees step forward with ideas?
Point 2: Stay away from trying to reward individual ideas
The obvious reasons why a Reward Scheme doesn't work
What kind of reward schemes work?
Point 3: Make ideas part of everyone's job
Point 4: Set up a Good Process to Handle ideas
The 8 Characteristics of a Good Idea System
1. Ideas are encouraged and welcomed
2. Submitting ideas is simple
3. Evaluation of ideas is quick and effective
4. Feedback is timely, constructive, and informative
5. Implementation is rapid and smooth
6. Ideas are reviewed for additional potential
7. People are recognized and success celebrated
8. Idea system performance is measured and improved
Point 5: Focus employees on the ideas you want
Point 6: Help people come up with more and better ideas