Course description
This bespoke session can be delivered online or face-to-face.
This workshop is designed for university staff.
Critical, creative and collaborative thinking are in demand more than ever before. In a world of uncertainty,creative thinking and critical thinking are all about nurturing curiosity and fluidity, being able to generate lots of different ideas and being willing to try out different approaches to solving problems.
We are all creative thinkers but can often create our own barriers to tapping into this effectively. We tell ourselves we aren’t creative, that we don’t have time, that we don’t want to risk failure by trying something new or we convince ourselves that a creative approach just won’t work.
This session will help you unpick some of these barriers, encourage you to tap into your natural creativity using practical tools that you can apply to typical scenarios you face as well as everyday situations so that you will be confident in creative thinking and critical thinking.
The session will focus on participants’ context and input to help guide the themes presented.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Our Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking programme is is specifically for university staff and 7 Skills For the Future works with a range of leading universities delivering these workshops, including the University of the Arts, London Southbank University and University College Birmingham.
Training Course Content
Face-to-face interactive and experiential workshop
Aim:
- To empower university staff to focus on the how, take different perspectives and try new approaches to get things done.
- To promote agency and the confidence to experiment for better solutions, and to make this part of their everyday.
Learning Outcomes:
For managers focus on the “how” - how to do things more creatively, and to make this part of their everyday through provision of practical tools which they can apply.
· To develop the confidence to try new approaches, question and experiment more.
· To encourage a move away from linear thinking and promoting curiosity and reflection
· To understand and embrace the benefits of making time to do this
We will cover the following areas:
What is creativity and what is critical thinking?
The Alternative Uses Test
Creating restrictions to boost creativity
Problem-solving techniques
How to boost collaboration within your team
ONLINE WORKSHOP
A highly interactive live 90-minute session packed with essential and impactful tips and strategies. Sessions include interactive exercises and break out rooms for online engagement.
Aim:
- To empower university staff to focus on the how, take different perspectives and try new approaches to get things done.
- To promote agency and the confidence to experiment for better solutions, and to make this part of their everyday.
Learning Outcomes:
For managers focus on the “how” - how to do things more creatively, and to make this part of their everyday through provision of practical tools which they can apply.
- To develop the confidence to try new approaches, question and experiment more.
- To encourage a move away from linear thinking and promoting curiosity and reflection
- To understand and embrace the benefits of making time to do this
We will cover the following areas:
What is creativity and what is critical thinking?
The Alternative Uses Test
Creating restrictions to boost creativity
Problem-solving techniques
How to boost collaboration within your team
Course delivery details
Face-to-face session delivered on-site at your university or online via teams.
Why choose 7 Skills For The Future
We deliver hundreds of courses and materials to key clients across the globe.
All our work is backed up by research and based on the internationally selling book "7 Skills for the Future" by Emma Sue Prince and published by Pearson Business.
We offer free membership and an array of free resources to boost personal development.
Reviews
Average rating 5
fun-filled session - really engaging and interactive and learned loads - thank you.
Very interactive activities with plenty of time given to discussions and exploring different ideas and topics.
Expenses
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Being able to go to breakout rooms and have a discussions with colleagues was very helpful in maintaining focus and absorption of information throughout.