Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 10 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Paul Sloane
Rating
Course Overview
Become a Creative Problem-Solver; Find Fresh Ideas.
Do you and your team sometimes get stuck for ideas? Do you keep tackling the same problems and not cracking them? Lateral thinking is an essential skill for anyone who wants to be a smarter problem-solver, an ideas person and a creative thinker. This course covers all the key elements of lateral thinking and shows you step by step how you can harness its techniques to boost your brain power and creative thinking. It contains many inspiring stories and examples as well as tips, tricks and methods to improve your mental agility. You will come up with better ideas at work and in other walks of life. Lateral thinking skills will help advance your career. And you will be a more interesting person - because you think differently.
In this course you will learn:
What is lateral thinking and why is it so potent?
How to challenge assumptions
How and when to break rules and conventions
Why you need to ask searching questions and how to do it
How to deliberately take a different point of view
How great lateral thinkers conceived breakthrough ideas
How to use random inputs to displace your thinking
How lateral thinking puzzles can exercise the brain and improve questioning skills
How to generate really creative and radical solutions for problems big and small
You can use these techniques on your own or with your team.
Course Content
- 6 section(s)
- 18 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Dominant Ideas, Assumptions, Rule-Breaking
- Section 3 Questioning and Taking a Different Point of View
- Section 4 Random Input and Use of Chance
- Section 5 Lateral Puzzles and Illusions
- Section 6 Summary
What You’ll Learn
- Become a Creative Problem-Solver and find Fresh Ideas and Solutions, What exactly is lateral thinking and how can you use it?, How conventional mindsets and assumptions hold you back, How to deliberately take a different point of view, How to use chance and random inputs to generate novel ideas, Best lateral brainstorm methods, Improve your problem solving skills, Boost your intelligence and creativity
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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MMelissa Hewitt
It's a very interesting subject matter.
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JJoan Burke
Found it a fascinating topic
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PPatience Molemane
I got a clear understanding of what lateral thinking is and how to move into thinking and doing things differently instead of one traditional way of doing things.
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TTebogo Seshabela
The good match for me on this course is to start believing in me and take a change on this that I see will make a good value for my future
