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
Requirements
- No prerequisites
Description
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.
Who this course is for:
- Professionals, Managers, Students, Anyone who wants to think better
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 3,420 Reviews
- 27,721 Students
- 22 Courses
Paul Sloane gained a first class Masters degree in Engineering from Cambridge University. He came top of Sales School at IBM. He went on to become a Marketing Director, Managing Director and CEO of software companies. He has written over 20 books which have sold over 2 million copies in total. His most popular books are entitled:
Lateral Thinking for Every Day
How to Be a Brilliant Thinker
The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills
Think like an Innovator
Lateral Thinking Puzzlers.
Paul runs leadership, lateral thinking and innovation master classes with top corporations around the world. Clients for his talks and workshops include Nike, Unilever and Microsoft. He has been a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, Lancaster University, Henley Business School and the Mumbai Institute of Technology. His Tedx talk is available on Youtube. It is entitled 'Are your Open-Minded?' He is a facilitator at Careers Springboard where he helps job-seekers get back into work.
He has over 40,000 followers on Twitter.