Lateral Thinking 2-Day Agenda

Continental Breakfast (if desired) / Registration

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

Break

Alternatives technique continued

Lunch 

Challenge technique: The willingness to explore the reasons why we do things the way we do

Break 

Random Entry technique: Use an unconnected input to open up new lines of thinking 

Break 

Creative Session: using the techniques of Focus, Alternatives/Concepts and Random Entry 

Q & A

Continental Breakfast (if desired)

Questions and answers from Day 1; Review

Provocation technique: Generating provocative statements and using them with Movement techniques to build new ideas

Break 

Provocation technique

Lunch

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 

Break 

Harvest technique: Double the output from your creative skill
Treatment technique: Develop ideas and shape them to fit an organization or situation

Complete course evaluation forms
Dismissal of two-day training participants
Evaluation form completion