Lateral Thinking 2-Day Agenda

Lateral Thinking Day 1

7:30–8:30	Continental Breakfast (if desired) / Registration
8:30–10:30	Introductions: instructor, participants, and program Focus technique: When and how to change the focus of your thinking Alternatives technique: How to use concepts as a breeding ground for new ideas and how to look beyond the obvious alternatives
10:30–10:45	Break
10:45–12:00	Alternatives technique continued
12:00–1:00	Lunch
1:00–2:30	Challenge technique: The willingness to explore the reasons why we do things the way we do
2:30–2:45	Break
2:45–4:00	Random Entry technique: Use an unconnected input to open up new lines of thinking
4:00–4:15	Break
4:15–5:00	Creative Session: using the techniques of Focus, Alternatives/Concepts and Random Entry
	Q & A

Lateral Thinking Day 2

7:30–8:30	Continental Breakfast (if desired)
8:30–9:00	Questions and answers from Day 1; Review
9:00–10:00	Provocation technique: Generating provocative statements and using them with Movement techniques to build new ideas
10:00–10:15	Break
10:15–12:00	Provocation technique
12:00–1:00	Lunch
1:00–2:45	Formal Creative Session: Demonstrating what a creative session would be like using the techniques with the same Focus. Ideas generated will be used for Harvest and Treatment
2:45–3:00	Break
3:00–4:30	Harvest technique: Double the output from your creative skill Treatment technique: Develop ideas and shape them to fit an organization or situation
4:30–5:00	Complete course evaluation forms Dismissal of two-day training participants Evaluation form completion