Wide Angle

1. Wide Angle A Training Program on Creative Thinking

2. Module I Opening, welcome & group formation

3. Opening, Welcome & Group Formation Welcome

4. Objectives The course will help you to: Recognize myths & realities of Creativity. Learn tools & techniques to think creatively. Understand & learn the process to unleash your Creativity. Identify the ways to fight traditional thinking.

5. Individual Activity: Folding Hands • Fold your hands • Observe your style of folding the hands • Now unfold the hands and quickly refold it in exactly opposite manner • Share your experience with the group

6. Discussion • Share your experiences…. • How was the task? • What problem did you faced in completing the task? • What other situations (at home or work) are like this?

7. Need to be Creative • In today's continually changing, competitive and challenging world, those who can think Creatively will persist. • It opens you up to new possibilities and to change. • It helps you “Stand out of the crowd”. • It helps you in problem solving. • It helps you to bring liveliness to your life.

8. Individual Activity: Greeting • Greet people in different way / style • Style used by the previous participant cannot be repeated • Introduce yourself in a brief way.

9. Discussion • Share your experiences… • What difference you find between normal / routine greeting and this activity? To get what we have never had We must do What we have never done

10. Applying Creative Ideas • There is nothing more marvelous than thinking of a new idea. • There is nothing more magnificent than seeing a new idea working.  • There is nothing more useful than a new idea that serves your purpose. 

11. Module II Myths & realities

12. Creativity: Some Myths • It is RARE & MYSTERIOUS • Only ARTISTS are CREATIVE • It is INBORN Quality • GOD given ability to SOME

13. Creativity: Some Realities • Generation of NEW IDEA • It’s a simple SKILL • It can be LEARNED • It’s within …EVERYONES’S REACH

14. Individual Activity: Uses of a Refrigerator • List out uses of “Out of order” Refrigerator. • Conditions: • You cannot get it repaired. • You cannot sale it or dispose off. • You cannot give it as a gift.

15. Barriers to Creativity • Knowledge • It’s not possible • It seems very funny • No one has done it before Learn – Unlearn - Relearn

16. How to Apply Creative Ideas • Everyday Creativity • Specific Creativity

17. Module III Tools & techniques of creative thinking

18. Individual Activity: Held up in Elevator • Imagine you are held up in an elevator. • You are alone. • What will you do……..

19. Tools Tools to think CREATIVELY • Believe it can be done • Don’t let tradition paralyze your mind • Ask yourself “How can I do it better” • Ask yourself “How can I do more” • Practice asking and listening • Stretch your mind

20. Team Activity: Best Ideas • Working in a team look out around the room and choose any one object at random. • As a team come up with the best way to make money with the chosen object. • Just let your imagination run wild, and exercise your creative thinking ability. • Total 20 Minutes 10 min: Discussion + 2 min / team for presentation

21. Team Presentations Presentations • Team will present their idea of making money out of the selected object. • Each team gets 2 minutes for presentation

22. Techniques of Creative Thinking • The Creative Pause • Focus • Alternatives • Provocation

23. Module IV UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY

24. Team Activity: Concept Combination • Working in a team take two concepts or objects and combine them in some novel way. • Example: What can you come up with from the combination of a chair and a microwave? • Total 20 Minutes 10 min: Discussion + 2 min / team for presentation

25. Team Presentations Presentations • Team will present their idea of combining two different objects in a novel way. • Each team gets 2 minutes for presentation

26. Unleash Your Creativity • Capturing Grab Ideas, Carry writing pads • Challenging Put your self in difficult situation • Broadening More knowledge – more diverse • Surrounding Put unusual things on your desk.

27. Module V How to fight traditional thinking

28. Team Activity: Human Machine • Each team to form a human machine using all the members of the team to represent parts of the machine. • Human machine must resemble the machine selected by the team as far as possible. • Each team will demonstrate their machine with action & sound effect and other teams will attempt to guess the machine & its products. • Example: Photocopier • Total 15 Minutes 10 min: Discussion & Preparation + 2 min / team for presentation

29. Team Presentations Presentations • Each team will demonstrate their machine with action & sound effect and other teams will attempt to guess the machine & its products. • Each team gets 2 minutes for presentation

30. How to fight Traditional Thinking • Become receptive to ideas • Be an experimental person • Be progressive not regressive

31. Module VI Closing

32. Objectives: We talked about Recognize myths & realities of Creativity. Learn tools & techniques to think creatively. Understand & learn the process to unleash your Creativity. Identify the ways to fight traditional thinking.

33. Happy Creativity Don’t be one of many…. Be Unique Nothing much will happen with creativity unless someone makes it happen.  Have  Wide Angle, Wider Angle In Life

34. ? Wide Angle • Questions?