Master Class - Creative Problem Solving & Decision Making

Learn to unlock your Creative Thinking skills; a companion to Critical Thinking, thereby helping you to develop novel and unorthodox solutions to the Problems.

This lecture focuses on what Creative Thinking is and how it is related to three different types of thinking styles - Divergent, Convergent and Lateral Thinking

Let's take a quick glimpse of solving a problem using Divergent & Convergent Thinking Styles.

Introduction to Lateral thinking to bring about creativity and insight restructuring and improving creativity quotient using Right Brain.

Trigger your mind to SCAMPER - an idea generation framework to boost creativity.

Unleash the brain's Creativity and Potential using the Mindmap Tool. Mind mapping tool helps you think, collect knowledge, remember and create ideas. Most likely it will make you a better thinker.

Practical application of the versatile creativity tool - Mind Mapping.

Hone up your out-of-the-box thinking skills. Make an effort to push your thinking beyond its limit every now and again. Think creatively, freely and off the beaten path.

A few activities that prompts you to think creatively and try to come up with out of the box solutions.

Try out few more simple exercises to get the creative thinking flowing.

Learn few more fantastic Creativity Techniques like:

Biomimicry : A method for creating solutions to human challenges by emulating designs and ideas found in nature.

Challenging Assumptions : A sense-making creativity technique designed to break apart a statement and discover where assumptions may be limiting your options.

COCD Box : A creative idea selection tool helping to find out the most promising ideas after an idea generation session.

Problem-solving skills help you determine the source of a problem and find an effective solution. Although problem-solving is often identified as skill on its own, there are other related skills that contribute to this ability. This lecture will focus on those related skills.

Learn few common mistakes that people make when defining their problems and how to avoid them.

This video explains the five problem solving steps and provides strategies on how to execute each one.

Learn Brainstorming - A Creative Technique, that combines a relaxed, informal approach to problem solving with lateral thinking.

This video covers 6-3-5 Brainwriting: a group-structured brainstorming technique used for generating new unusual ideas and / or their systematic further development in a group.

Dive deep into few more techniques of Problem Solving:

Reverse brainstorming : helps you to solve problems by combining brainstorming and reversal techniques. By combining these, you can extend your use of brainstorming to draw out even more creative ideas.

Role Storming : a unique form of group brainstorming that involves role playing.

This video will take you through Pareto analysis , a formal technique used to assess and prioritize competing problems and focus your efforts on the issues that matter most.

The drill down technique is an excellent problem solving method for getting to the root of the problem.This technique looks to break the key problem down into its elements and hence find a solution to these factors, with the overall aim of solving the key problem.

This video will take you through a practical case study on solving problems using Fish Bone Analysis.

FMEA is a structured approach to discovering potential failures that may exist within the design of a product or process and their impact on process.

We all take decisions when we make a choice among the available options. However, taking a good decision is a skill that requires you to undergo certain process. Let's get introduced about Decision making in this section.

This video introduces you to different types of Decision Making - Programmed, Non-Programmed, Operational & Strategic Decision Making.

To minimize effort and avoid difficult trade-offs, people tend to rely too heavily on experience, impulses, gut feelings, and convenient rules of thumb. These shortcuts are helpful, however they also tend to distort our rationality. These Common biases are prejudices or decisions that are not fair and balanced.

Some more Biases and errors that affect our decision making.

In this video, 4 Decision Making Approaches will be covered : Rational, Bounded Rationality, Intuitive and Creative Decision Making.

While the individual cognitive ability for decision making will depend on each individual, however, we can follow a well-structured process for decision making as covered in this video

In decision analysis, a decision tree can be used to visually and explicitly represent decisions and decision making.

Need to Make a Tough Decision? A Decision Matrix can help to consider all of the factors that you deem as important and gives you a clear answer about which of your choices stack up the best.

Kepner Tregoe's - a detailed Problem Solving & Decision Making model has been helping teams and individuals find the root cause of problems faster, make better decisions, manage risk, and prioritize what to work on first.

Paired Comparison is a useful and easy technique for rating and ranking alternatives where the evaluation criteria are subjective by nature.

Futures Wheel: a method for graphically developing a visualisation of direct and indirect future consequences of a certain change or development.

Managers often rely on patterns and intuition to make quick decisions. Intuitive decision making can be very beneficial in the business world and differs from rational processes in several ways. Learn more about this decision-making tool in this video.

Group decision-making commonly known as collaborative decision-making is a situation faced when individuals collectively make a choice from the alternatives before them.

Six Thinking Hats is a good decision making technique for group discussions and individual thinking.

Bonus Lecture on Ethics & Values as fundamentals of Decision Making