Generating ideas

Generating ideas is a core part of innovation, problem solving and continuous improvement. This workshop gives participants specific techniques to help them generate more and different ideas.

Max 12 participants

100 mins

Light bulbs shining representing the process of generating ideas

Impact

On your business

Enhanced creativeness throughout the company – developing better strategies for generating ideas promotes new and exciting concepts, driving growth and innovation from the individual upwards.
Improved efficiency – having better ideation strategies means new concepts and projects can be tackled quickly and successfully.
Be at the forefront of innovation – good ideation drives creativity- by developing better ideation strategies organisations can enable themselves to be at the forefront to develop new and innovative ideas!

As a result of this workshop participants will

Have a better understanding of the ideation process, and how it fits into innovation and problem solving.
Practice using different ideation tools to generate more creative, diverse and exciting ideas.
Be able to select and adapt ideation tools to suit their specific situation.
Identify practical actions they can take to boost their ideation going forwards.

Learning activities

Workshop

Discussion

Online resources

Action plan

Want to know more?

Generating ideas is a core element of problem solving and continuous improvement. After all, without ideas, there is no innovation! Ideation tools can help to spark more unexpected, exciting and diverse ideas, so that we can find creative solutions that are still profitable and productive. By improving the capacity for idea generation, it can help drive creativity throughout the team.

The workshop will explore specific techniques that we can use to generate a diverse range of ideas. It examines the role of play, curiosity and divergent thinking, and how these can be used to overcome barriers to creativity and consider how we can boost these at work.

Participants will be introduced to various ideation tools, and learn how to select the best technique for generating ideas in any situation. They will also learn how to adapt the techniques to best suit their own way or working. Finally, the workshop explores some top tips to facilitate more focused and free ideation sessions, leaving participants with a better understanding of the value and power of ideation and a bank of tools to structure their own ideation sessions.