Master Lateral Thinking

Do you and your team sometimes get stuck for ideas? Do you keep tackling the same problems and not cracking them? Lateral thinking is an essential skill for anyone who wants to be a smarter problem-solver, an ideas person and a creative thinker. This course covers all the key elements of lateral thinking and shows you step by step how you can harness its key techniques to boost your brain power and creativity. It contains many inspiring stories and examples as well as tips, tricks and methods to improve your mental agility. You will come up with better ideas at work and in other walks of life. Lateral thinking skills will help advance your career. And you will be a more interesting person - because you think differently.

In this course you will learn:

• What is lateral thinking and why is it so potent?

• How to challenge assumptions

• How and when to break rules and conventions

• Why you need to ask searching questions and how to do it

• How to deliberately take a different point of view

• How great lateral thinkers conceived breakthrough ideas

• How to use random inputs to displace your thinking

• How lateral thinking puzzles can exercise the brain and improve questioning skills

• How to generate really creative and radical solutions for problems big and small

You can use these techniques on your own or with your team.