Student who complete this programme will be able to:

• Deal with problems, opportunities and challenges
• Understand how our brains work and the different types of thinking
• Appreciate creativity and innovation; what they are and why we need them
• Identify and understand the characteristics of creative individuals, groups and organisations and personal styles of creativity
• Recognise the structure and stages of the creative problem solving process
• Explore and analyse problems and their causes
• Write and refine problem/goal statements
• Apply techniques for creativity and ideas, using visual, word-based and spatial techniques including brainstorming, random stimuli and assumption-busting generation
• Evaluate ideas and make decisions
• Plan for the successful implementation of solutions in the workplace
• Overcome barriers to creativity in the workplace
• Manage group creative problem solving sessions – use facilitation skills