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Creative Problem Solving Courses
Creative Problem Solving Training
Every organisation needs an ideas machine. But creative problem solvers don’t just think them up, they know how to put the best ones into practice.
You’ll learn where ideas come from, and map the journey needed to turn them into innovations. This includes overcoming creative blocks, building on ideas so they don’t float around, and getting the right people to make them work, even if you’re working at opposite ends of the Earth.
Get Stuff Done
Get Stuff Done
Get Stuff Done
Get Stuff Done
Trying to improve or innovate can seem like impossible work.
🟣You know something has to change but you’re lost as to how to do it.
🟣The fixed way of approaching challenges is keeping you stuck in a rut.
🟣There are blocks to putting ideas into action, perhaps from others…
In my problem solving training and coaching, you’ll discover methods to easily tap into a free flow of creative ideas and move those blocks.
Who I help
Whether you’re working in a creative agency or you’ve a technical specialist, my Creative Problem Solving training sessions are designed to help you unearth practical tools that make ideas a reality.
My clients cover:
- ⚪Finance;
- ⚪Pharma;
- ⚪Agriculture;
- ⚪Fintech.
A fuller (but not finite) list is here.
Why choose me, Frankie Kemp?
With three books of plays, two businesses (one sold at 28), and having written and produced award-winning sketch comedies, I know how to turn a blank page into a master plan. I’ve helped clients ranging from civic leaders to marketers release their creativity so that they solve problems quicker – and enjoy the process.
The Features
- Vibrant
If it’s not enjoyable, we bin it.
- Personalised
Creative problem solving skills aren’t a one-size-fits-all solution. The interventions are built around your challenges and goals.
- Pragmatic
You get practical tools and techniques that you can use at will either independently or with others.
- Ongoing Support
Even after your problem solving training or coaching, I’ll be here to offer booster sessions to make the skills stick or tweak them for other situations.
frankie MADE me DO IT.
Check out my services, packages and pricing
View PricingTrying to improve or innovate can seem like impossible work. The need to create can feel like it’s beset with problems. In this course, you’ll get unstuck and find opportunities to encourage the free flow of creative ideas. In addition, you’ll filter and action them. Resourcefulness will become a habit.
- Help you or your team break out of ‘that’s the way things are’ mentality.
- Get out that rut: unearth practical tools that make ideas become reality.
- Learn how to tap into ideas at will, test them safely and see them come to fruition.
Discover the features of Problem Solving Training here.
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Get into the problem solving mindset
Nothing will happen if you’re not in the ‘right mind’ to think more innovatively, especially solo. When this is pertinent, we explore how to get you in the mood to be unknot those issues:
- Define Approaches to Creative Thinking: Determine vision and explore challenges to group and individual problem solving.
- Environment: Determine environmental factors that prevent creative thinking.
- Pinpoint Personal Factors: Define personal blocks to ideation and discover how to overcome them.
Ideate Your Way
How to you come up with answers to problems? Where can you start? I can help you with a bundle of practical ways to do this alone or in teams, in ways that fit your situation.
- Use Improvisation and Visual Techniques: Generate and expand ideas with improvisation, visual techniques, and word play.
- Avoid Groupthink: Learn strategies to foster independent thinking.
- Meld Existing Ideas: Combine existing concepts to create something new.
Let’s say you’ve got a bag of ideas and solutions. How do you know which ones to run with? When you’re working in dispersed teams this can be a bit of an obstacle. We pin down how you can smooth out the process quickly.
- Filtering: Explore techniques like Dot Voting to filter and prioritise ideas.
- Action Plan: Develop a simple action plan with delegation and benchmarks.
- Determine Asynchronous and Synchronous Methods: Build and filter ideas in different settings.
Involve & Get Buy-In
Engaging different personalities and determining what’s working and what needs to be changed business-wide can be overwhelming. Then you’ve got sell the idea…Do not fear. Help is here:
- Deploy Appreciative Inquiry: Create lasting change across the company by looking at what works.
- Engage Extroverts and Introverts: Find strategies to utilise everyone’s resourcefulness.
- Pitching: Learn the 5-minute structure for selling an idea to senior leadership.
Get Started
Book a free 15-minute call with Frankie. No pressure – just a chat about how you (or your people) can become better communicators.
Zap problems. Unleash Your Creativity.
What the sessions look like
The options are customised and can include:
- One-to-one coaching or group sessions
- One hour to one-day workshops
- Series of creative problem-solving sessions
- Delivered in-person or online