"We have to continuously be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down." Kurt Vonnegut

Businesses are now conducted at breakneck speed with new technologies and innovation. The new mantra of today’s successful organization is to innovate or die an untimely death. Competition is abundant and for you to survive you need to continuously learn and come up with new and innovative ideas to keep your organization from becoming redundant. To survive and thrive effectively in such a brutal environment you need to use every ounce of your creative juices in your brain to make impossible ideas possible. This may look and feel like a daunting task however if you have the right mental toolset you can do whatever is necessary to come up with creative solutions to seemingly impossible situation. Think how flying was considered an impossibility until the Wright Brothers proved this to be a possibility. Think how going into Space was considered as merely science fiction and today we have defied gravity and manage to put man in space and on the moon. However, your ability to do overcome impossible situation is not going to occur overnight and require you to engage in a process of nurturing your thinking process. This is where you can use the S.C.R.E.A.M technique to direct your thought-processes to come with innovative and creative solutions that will work effectively and productively. S.C.R.E.A.M methodology will help you identify opportunities that will allow you to become an excellent creative thinker and innovator and thus becoming an asset for the organization that you are working with. In this result-oriented workshop, you will learn on how to remove barriers that block or limit your creativity. You will learn how to improve your imagination, divergent thinking and mental flexibility. You will be taught on how to do individual brainstorming and when to recognize and look for what inspires you to become more creative. Specifically, this is what you will learn:

Objective

By the end of the workshop you will be able to:

• Understand the hidden potential of your brain to think creatively
• Understand and apply convergent and divergent thinking
• Boosting your imagination and inspiration from something out of nothing
• Removing the Mental Block, self-imposed limitations and beating procrastination
• Appreciate and apply the universal process of innovation
• Adapting the six stages of creative imagination - Initiation; Internalization; Intensification; Imagination; Innovation and Implementation
• Learn to make a paradigm shift and change the impossible into the possible
• Looking for short-term solutions and long-term solutions based on the acute or chronic nature of the problem
• Understand S.C.R.E.A.M application - Substitute; Combine; Rearrange; Elaborate; Adapt and Magnify.

Outline

What you will cover in this action oriented one day workshop

Module One

• What is creative imagination?
• Improving your creative mindset
• Learning to think like a child
• Creating a conducive environment that promotes creativity

Module Two

• Questioning assumptions and developing creative confidence
• Sparking your curiosity and engaging in creative problem solving
• Case study on how creative imagination works
• Underlying premise of creative imagination and how to adapt this in the workplace

Module Three

• Preparing the mind to think creatively with the six-stage process
• How to do individual brainstorming
• How to do group brainstorming
• Introduction to the S.C.R.E.A.M methodology

Module Four

• Application of S.C.R.E.A.M to turn creative ideas into reality
• Creation of an action plan to nurture creative imagination regularly in organization
• Taking risks
• Adopting a "Fake it till you Make it" approach
• Identifying returns of investment in thinking creatively

Who should attend

All staff of an organization. Specifically, if you are in marketing, research and development, human resources, policy making and leadership position.

Methodology

This is a high-impact result oriented workshop consisting of very short concept sharing followed by group discussion, individual reflection, and focusing attention to specific problem-solving puzzles that the trainer will challenge you throughout the workshop. There will also be short video presentation to demonstrate creative thinking throughout the ages.

Daniel Theyagu's Profile

• Accredited ICAgile Authorized Instructor
• Certified Lean Six Sigma (Master Black Belt)
• Certified Professional Project Manager [PMI]
• Certified Advanced SCRUM Master [Scrum Alliance] [CSM]
• Certified SCRUM Master [Scrum Alliance] [A-CSM]
• Certified Product SCRUM Product Owner [CSPO]
• Certified Advanced SCRUM Product Owner [A-CSPO]
• Certified Agile Leader [teams and organisations] [CAL-E.T.O]
• Certified SAFe (5) Agilist
• Certified SAFe Lean Portfolio Manager
• Certified SAFe DevOps
• Certified ICAgile Coach
• Certified ICAgile Professional
• Certified ICAgile Team Facilitator
• Certified ICAgile-CAT
• Certified ICAgile-LEA
• Certified Project Management Professional
• Certified Business Analytics Specialist [GICT]
• Certified Critical Thinking and Research Analyst [GAQM]
• Certified Problem and Change Manager [GAQM]
• Certificate in System Thinking [MIT]
• Executive Certificate in Design Thinking [SMU]
• Certified Behavioural and Career Coach [DISC profiling]
• Certified Advanced Behavioural Specialist [DISC profiling]
• Certified The Big Five®Personality Profile Coach
• Certified Emotional Intelligence Facilitator
• Certified Genos™International Emotional Intelligence Coach
• Certified Enneagram Spectrum Practitioner and Coach
• Certified Stress Management Consultant
• Certified Practitioner in Data Protection
• LEGO® Serious Play – Certified Facilitator
• Licensed Master Practitioner of NLP®
• Licensed NLP® Coach
• Certified Applied Neuroscience Coach
• Certified Train-the-trainer in Design Leadership and Design Thinking [SMU]
• ACTA – certified trainer (Singapore)
• Associate Adult Educator (Singapore) [IAL]
• Bachelor of Laws (Hon) University of Buckingham (UK)
• Master in Education, University of Sheffield (UK)
• Diploma in English, University of London (UK)
• Graduate Diploma in Communication and Innovation [SMU]

Daniel Theyagu is a professional corporate trainer in Thinking Strategies, Agile Project Management, Lean Methodologies and Personal Productivity. He is a professional Neuroscience Coach and is an authorized trainer in ICAgile certifications. With a track record of 32 years in training and development, Daniel has trained more than 1000 companies internationally. His participants come from more than 100 countries and range from C-Suite to frontline officers in both the public and private sector. Known for his light-hearted and humorous approach to training, Daniel incorporates many hands-on activities to keep his participants actively engaged in the training. Through the generous use of tactile learning, Daniel is able to impart the most difficult concept succinctly with participants able to see the returns on investment within a short time.