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Creative Inferno

Workshop
7 hours

A big, bold creative day to inspire your team

This one-day workshop includes a variety of creative thinking techniques to help a group generate fresh ideas for their project.
  • Gain valuable fresh perspectives to bring to your work projects
  • Learn and practice using powerful creative thinking tools
  • Evaluate, prioritise and plan to make your ideas happen
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Creative Inferno

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In Detail

If your team needs to generate some fresh ideas or approaches, look no further than this workshop. You can bring your projects or goals to this session and we'll guide you through these powerful techniques to help you gain new insights and big ideas.

You'll start by viewing things anew, with a beginner's mindset, then move on to consider a range of different perspectives to help you see new opportunities and approaches.

We'll then consider the constraints around your project, stretching and squeezing to tease out radical and innovative solutions. We'll also try two quick-fire techniques for solving problems.

The workshop closes with an evaluation exercise to assess and prioritise your ideas, and a quick planning exercise to help you determine next steps.

TESTIMONIAL
“After the session, my colleague and I couldn’t stop talking about the new ideas we had generated in our heads, all of which happened in such a short period of time. I would recommend Creative Huddle to any company who have reached a creative stalemate.”
Heidi Swain
Quality and Placements Officer
University of Sussex

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Beginner's Mind

Innovation Skills
CONTENT DETAIL
We can sometimes be weighed down by the "curse of knowledge", believing we know everything about a role or problem. Instead, tap into the beginner's mindset by imagining today is your first day in your current role. How would the new you approach things differently?
OUTCOME
Participants view their work through a fresh set of eyes, revealing new insights and opportunities previously unconsidered. This tool is especially useful for people who have been working in a particular role or industry for a long period of time.

Perspectives

Innovation Skills
CONTENT DETAIL
Looking at a problem from different angles or vantage points can change how it is perceived and interpreted. This might mean taking on a different persona, or changing your thinking style slightly. We can use an "Empathy Mapping" template and a "Personality Swap" worksheet to help with this.
OUTCOME
By putting themselves in the shoes of their customers, stakeholders or colleagues, gaining empathy by seeing the world through their eyes, participants are quickly able to see their work from a variety of different perspectives. This leads to new insights and innovative ways of solving problems.

Constraints

Innovation Skills
CONTENT DETAIL
Constraints are often the source of our best ideas. Think of Twitter's 140 character limit, or the 18 minute limit for TED Talks. We invite participants to write a list of all the constraints on a current project, then make them worse or introduce more severe constraints to force more radical, ambitious approaches. What new ideas does this provoke?
OUTCOME
This technique offers a quick route to innovative suggestions. It challenges participants to be much more bold and groundbreaking than usual, in response to the unusually harsh constraints they are presented with.

Problem Swap

Innovation Skills
CONTENT DETAIL
Participants think of a current problem they are experiencing in their work. They then pair with another participant and swap problems. How would each solve the other’s problem?
OUTCOME
Research shows that swapping problems is a highly productive method of discovering new insights and solutions. We can get new perspectives and novel solutions by seeing how others might respond to our issue.

Solved!

CONTENT DETAIL
We ask participants to imagine they could solve a key business problem, just by clicking their fingers. What would they solve and what difference would it make? This can reveal perceived blocks to progress, and provokes fresh thinking.
OUTCOME
Sometimes we imagine barriers to progress that don't exist - conveniently putting off a key decision or action because another element is in the way. By imagining the removal of these barriers, we can see the benefits of moving forwards.

Big Idea

Innovation Skills
CONTENT DETAIL
Think about the project you’re working on. What’s a really big idea that could help you achieve your objectives? Use our worksheet to detail all the different elements of your idea.
OUTCOME
Our simple worksheet helps participants to break down the key elements of their idea and define its value, outcomes and potential obstacles. It also helps plan next steps and how to communicate the idea to others.

Easy High Impact

Planning
CONTENT DETAIL
Which of your ideas and projects should take priority? Which will offer the best return for the least resources? If some of your ideas look great but seem hard to achieve, can you simplify or streamline them so they take less resources or effort?
OUTCOME
This approach is great for working out priorities, identifying strengths and making decisions. It can also help you use constraints to focus your thinking. Teams find it really useful to get clarity on what's worth working on first, and what has the greatest potential.

In Detail

If your team needs to generate some fresh ideas or approaches, look no further than this workshop. You can bring your projects or goals to this session and we'll guide you through these powerful techniques to help you gain new insights and big ideas.

You'll start by viewing things anew, with a beginner's mindset, then move on to consider a range of different perspectives to help you see new opportunities and approaches.

We'll then consider the constraints around your project, stretching and squeezing to tease out radical and innovative solutions. We'll also try two quick-fire techniques for solving problems.

The workshop closes with an evaluation exercise to assess and prioritise your ideas, and a quick planning exercise to help you determine next steps.

Creative Inferno

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About our workshops

The informality of our workshops enables participants to relax, express themselves freely and find common ground with others. This lends itself perfectly to ideation and team-building by encouraging positive interactions and idea sharing.

Team Workshop
Bring Your Work

Bring Your Work

Our workshops are practical in nature, so to get the best results we encourage you to come armed with a few live projects or briefs, ready to apply our tools and methods to your work immediately during the session.
Full Engagement

Full Engagement

Our meetings and workshops get everyone collaborating equally and effectively to harness their collective strengths and make insightful contributions. They’re carefully designed experiences that help people of all kinds speak up, generate ideas, solve problems, share opinions and make decisions.
Tools & Techniques

Tools & Techniques

We’re avid collectors of useful approaches to spark new thinking and enable vibrant conversations. From World Cafe to Open Space, Team Canvas to Unconference, Customer Journey Mapping to Scenario Planning, we use the most relevant tools & techniques to fit your brief perfectly.

What exactly is a Talkshop?

We're glad you asked! Simply put, a Talkshop is a cross between a talk and a workshop. They're short, punchy, thought-provoking sessions. We take a key concept and explain it clearly, then help your team explore it together to understand how it can help them in their work.

Team Workshop
Bring Your Work

Bring Your Work

Our workshops are practical in nature, so to get the best results we encourage you to come armed with a few live projects or briefs, ready to apply our tools and methods to your work immediately during the session.
Full Engagement

Full Engagement

Our meetings and workshops get everyone collaborating equally and effectively to harness their collective strengths and make insightful contributions. They’re carefully designed experiences that help people of all kinds speak up, generate ideas, solve problems, share opinions and make decisions.
Tools & Techniques

Tools & Techniques

We’re avid collectors of useful approaches to spark new thinking and enable vibrant conversations. From World Cafe to Open Space, Team Canvas to Unconference, Customer Journey Mapping to Scenario Planning, we use the most relevant tools & techniques to fit your brief perfectly.

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