Course Description
In today’s competitive landscape, HR professionals are more than administrators—they’re key drivers of innovation and culture within organizations. This course equips HR practitioners with creative thinking tools and problem-solving techniques tailored to the HR domain, enhancing their ability to foster a vibrant, adaptive workplace. Through practical exercises, engaging discussions, and real-world case studies, participants will develop a creative toolkit to solve HR challenges, from talent acquisition and employee engagement to conflict resolution and policy innovation.
Course Duration
5 Days
Who Should Attend
- HR managers and executives seeking innovative approaches to HR challenges
- Learning and development specialists focused on enhancing employee engagement
- Talent acquisition professionals interested in creative sourcing and recruitment strategies
- Organizational development consultants working on culture transformation projects
- Any HR professional aspiring to foster a culture of creativity within their organization
Course Objectives
Participants attending the Creative Thinking for HR training course will:
- Assess their own thinking and communicating style preferences through a variety of critical thinking, creative thinking, and design thinking tools
- Appreciate the vital importance that communication and active listening have in building a sustainable environment, where dispassionate measurement and assessment, coupled with critical and creative thinking are consistently taken
- Have obtained the necessary skills to make better business decisions
- Recognize the difference between solving problems and finding solutions
- Takeaway a toolkit of creative and design thinking techniques to enable them to cope with the challenges which lie ahead
Course Outline:
Module 1 - Identifying Potential Risks and Future Problems
- Identify potential risks and future problems that may arise from company decisions related to employees and from applying exceptions
- Recognize appropriate questions during investigations to gather relevant information and avoid irrelevant details to critically evaluate a situation
- Managing the risk
- Decision making applied
- Establishing the right climate
Module 2 - Critical Thinking Models & Process
- Use the Critical Thinking Process to gather and interpret relevant information and come to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions
- Idea generation and problem-solving
- Influencing for success – a critical evaluation of our preferred style of influencing
- Developing a Stakeholder Analysis – Power versus Influence
- The steps for effective problem solving and decision making – using several different models
Module 3 - Clarifying the Reality - Visualisation and Fact-finding
- Employ visualization and fact-finding to verify and identify the real cause of the problem
- Avoiding Jumping to Conclusions
- Visual thinking
- Opportunities and Challenges as opposed to problems
- Developing a “meetings strategy” to solve measure and assess our approach to risk
Module 4 - Critically Evaluating the Alternatives
- Critically evaluate alternatives using different tools such as deductive and inductive reasoning strategies and logic trees
- Checklist for new ideas
- Choosing your problem-solving language
- Importance of correct information
- Combining reasoning and emotion
Module 5 - Interpreting Business Focused Information Able to identify the root cause of the problems
- Able to interpret information to reach effective decisions and recommendations
- Able to evaluate the credibility of received answers
- Develop critically SMART objectives
Customized Training
This training can be tailored to your institution needs and delivered at a location of your choice upon request.
Requirements
Participants need to be proficient in English.
Training Fee
The fee covers tuition, training materials, refreshments, lunch, and study visits. Participants are responsible for their own travel, visa, insurance, and personal expenses.
Certification
A certificate from Ideal Workplace Solutions is awarded upon successful completion.
Accommodation
Accommodation can be arranged upon request. Contact via email for reservations.
Payment
Payment should be made before the training starts, with proof of payment sent to outreach@idealworkplacesolutions.org.
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