How To Be More Creative At Work. Problem Solving Superpowers

Develop your creative thinking and problem solving with 4 creative habits

What you’ll learn
4 Creative Habits: Steal/Explore/Connect/Play
Boost your creative thinking and problem solving skills
How to ‘Be more Bowie’
How to ‘Be more T’
How to ‘Become a time traveller’
Be more curious, ask ‘What if?’
7 tops tips to boost your creativity
How to interpret a live brief

Requirements
Curiosity and willingness to try new things
Desire to develop your creative thinking and problem solving skillset

Description
This is the first course from Future Skills Club. We are based in Nottingham and from August 2023 to January 2024 we have been funded by a Creative Catalyst grant from InnovateUK to produce the first brain content, a learning community platform and initial steps into personalised learning.Industry is telling us the number one skillset they need from new employees is creative thinking and problem solving, hence this course – How to be more creative at Work – Problem solving Superpowers..We have made the content like a TV documentary following the journey of in-person workshop students as they discover, develop and boost their creative thinking and problem solving for live client briefs.Watch our workshop students learn and practice the 4 creative habits of steal, explore/connect and play. There are supplementary explainers of each habit. There are live clients from the music industry and local business together with Poppy the dog and Rikki the quickdraw illustrator.You will learn to ‘Be More Bowie’, ‘Be More T’ and even ‘How to become a time traveller’. More importantly you will increase your creative thinking and problem solving for real work scenarios. If you are learning online, we encourage to collaborate with friends and colleagues as you will generate more ideas.Learn happier, deeper and smarter with Future Skills Club.

Overview
Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome

Lecture 2 What is creativity?

Lecture 3 Introduction to the course

Lecture 4 How does creativity work?

Section 2: Creative Habit 1 – Stealing

Lecture 5 Stealing

Lecture 6 Start with this 1

Lecture 7 Inspiration

Lecture 8 Listen to Jim

Lecture 9 Start with this 2 – Be more Bowie

Section 3: STEAL WORKSHOP, watch other students learn

Lecture 10 STEAL Workshop with live Album Cover brief

Lecture 11 Homework – Louie Walsh album cover brief

Section 4: Creative Habit 2 – Exploring

Lecture 12 Exploring

Lecture 13 Going t-shaped

Lecture 14 Start with this 3

Section 5: Creative Habit 3- Connecting

Lecture 15 Connecting

Lecture 16 Start with this 4

Section 6: EXPLORE & CONNECT WORKSHOP, watch other students learn

Lecture 17 Explore & Connect Workshop part 1

Lecture 18 Explore & Connect Workshop part 2

Section 7: Creative Habit 4 – Playing

Lecture 19 Playing

Lecture 20 Start with this 5

Lecture 21 Try to fail

Lecture 22 Start with this 6

Section 8: PLAY WORKSHOP, watch other students learn

Lecture 23 Play Workshop part 1

Lecture 24 Play Workshop part 2

Section 9: Summary

Lecture 25 Growth mindset

Lecture 26 Summary

Section 10: Extra additional content

Lecture 27 Bash the brief

Lecture 28 Top 7 Tips

Particularly for final year students and graduates,Employees looking to lead creative workshops,Entrepreneurs who want to build their innovation toolset