Lateral-Thinking Seminar
The Lateral-Thinking Seminar will teach you how to think ahead. Creatively, it turn your problems into opportunities, finds alternative solutions to them and generates new and practical ideas. Sometimes, it’s not about the end result but what you learn in the way. Lateral-thinking opens the doors of a new way of aproaching problems.
Who Needs Lateral-Thinking?
This seminar is aimed for people who want a disciplined process for innovation, idea generation, concept development or creative problem solving. If you face fast-changing trends, fierce competition and the need to work miracles on a regular basis, you need Lateral-Thinking techniques.
Lateral-Thinking Techniques:
Alternatives / Concept Extraction: Break old concepts to breed new ideas.
Focus: Sharpen and/or change your focus if you want to improve your creativity.
Challenge: Break free from the limits of accepted ways of operating to find the best ways of operating.
Arbitrary Entry: Use unconnected input to open new thought patterns.
Provocation: Turn a provocative statement into an useful idea.
Harvesting: Select the best early ideas and shape them, developing them into useable approaches.
Treatment of Ideas: Develop ideas and shape them to fit perfectly in an organization or situation.
How Might You Use Lateral Thinking in Your Business?
- Constructively challenge the status quo to enable new ideas to appear.
- Learn the concept behind a good idea then use it to build new good ideas.
- Solve problems in new ways that you initially would not think of.
- Use alternative solutions to liberate and harness your creative energy.
- Turn problems into opportunities.