Creativity is a key skill when problem-solving.
Develop your convergent and divergent thinking by building a toolkit of practical exercises to help you innovate at work.
Ever wanted to be more creative? If so, this training is the perfect starting point.
But how can you do this more effectively at work?
This training will guide you through a self-assessment of your current creativity to discover your strengths and weaknesses. Then, through a range of practical exercises, you’ll learn how to generate ideas using divergent thinking and select the best ones using convergent thinking.
You’ll also apply these skills to real problems at work, nurture your creative mind; discover ways of building confidence when sharing your ideas, and pick up invaluable techniques to help you work creatively with others.
By the end of this training, you will be able to:
* Explore practical techniques to nurture your creative capacity.
* Apply divergent and convergent thinking to hone your creativity.
* Apply creative thinking tools to problem-solve in the working world.
This training receives government funding managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (National Agency for Research) under the plan France 2030, with the reference ANR-21-EXES-0004.
Part 1: Explore Practical Techniques to Nurture Your Creative Capacity
1\. Get the Most Out of This Course
2\. Assess Your Current Creativity
3\. Overcome the Fear of Failure
4\. Supercharge Your Ability to Focus
5\. Identify Physical Activities That Nurture Your Creativity
6\. Quiz
Part 2: Apply Divergent and Convergent Thinking to Hone Your Creativity
1\. Generate New Ideas
2\. Develop Flexible Thinking
3\. Think Outside the Box
4\. Apply Logic to Examine Your Ideas
5\. Assess Problems Using Evaluation Tools
6\. Reflect, Reexamine, Rethink
7\. Quiz
Part 3: Apply Creative-Thinking Tools to Problem-Solve in the Working World
1\. Become Aware of Your Conceptual Blind Spots
2\. Facilitate Group Creativity at Work
3\. Develop Positive Creative Workspaces
4\. Apply Creativity to Job Applications and Interviews
5\. Design a Personal Creativity Toolkit
6\. Quiz
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It's an e-learning course in english that takes place on the OPENCLASSROOMS platform with full independence. You have three months to complete it.
The course is punctuated by videos covering all the key notions of the training and texts that go into greater depth on the subject.
A certificate of achievement will be issued by the OPENCLASSROOMS platform when you have completed the course. To confirm that you have completed the course, please send this certificate by email to formations.innovation@u-bordeaux.fr.
WARNING: you must wait to receive the link to create your account before you can start the course (email sent by OpenClassrooms). Only this account will activate the license that will allow you to obtain the certificate of achievement to send to us. Training completed with an account other than this one will not be considered valid.
Registration for this course commits you to completing it (we pay a license), so please only register if you are sure you will complete the course.