Module 2, Course 2: Serious Creativity – Creative Problem Solving (June 9-10, 2022)

Creative Problem Solving (CPS) is an explicit process that stimulates creative thinking and helps to develop new solutions for defined challenges. As a process it consists of a number of specific steps to guide the thinking.
It can be used as a reactive and proactive approach for open ended problems and challenges. Open ended means that the final result and / or the way to a solution is not clear or predefined and creative thinking is necessary in order to solve the problem

CPS works so well because

• it is similar to the natural way of how most people solve problems.
However, CPS organizes this process in an efficient way and makes this often intuitive process explicit. 

• it combines thinking with doing and helps people to turn ideas into specific action steps. 

• it helps, through specific thinking steps to organize the thinking of individuals and especially groups and thus make it more productive. 

• it is a flexible and modular process that can be combined with numerous creativity and thinking tools.

Training contents

• Understanding creativity and innovation
• Basic principles of creative thinking: Divergent and convergent thinking
• Introduction to the steps of the Creative Problem Solving process
• Thinking tools and creativity techniques for understanding the challenge
• Thinking tools and creativity techniques for the systematic generation of ideas
• Thinking tools and creativity techniques for idea evaluation, idea selection and prototyping of ideas
• Thinking tools and creativity techniques for creating acceptance of new solutions
• Reflection of key learnings and transfer to the daily work

Methods

• Interactive presentation
• Individual exercises
• Group exercises
• Rounds of feedback and reflectiIon

Information about the trainer.

Nadine Krauss is trained as a fully qualified lawyer. She studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Università degli Studi di Ferrara (Italy) and completed her traineeship in Germany and the USA. After gaining experience as a freelance journalist, she worked as a PR consultant at an international communications agency (2014-2016). There, she supervised the Public Relations of global IT companies. Since 2014 she also organized and facilitated events of a non-profit organization for brainstormings and creative methods. As team member of creaffective she contributes many skills – she supports the team as a trainer, facilitator, innovation coach and blogger.