About This Course: The ability to adjust, innovate and pivot is essential to success in business. This unique Innovating & Problem Solving course introduces proven practices for stimulating creativity and strategic innovation in a team. Learn how to break through the common traps and mindsets that prevent forward motion and innovation. Power past your biases In this course, you will learn how to recognize confirmation bias and functional fixation in yourself and others. You will experience looking at things through entirely new lenses, and recognize small actions that will create big results. Stimulate creativity and innovation in others If you are a manager, this course will show you how to foster and grow a workplace that champions creativity and new ideas. If you are working in a team, you will learn how to move quickly from problem-identification mode to problem-solving mode – and ensure buy-in from your colleagues and managers. Move from ideas to action You will learn how to break through the disabling “shoulds,” and how to overcome the fear of rejection – and take positive action without regret.   Outcomes of this Course The skills introduced in this course will help you with:

• Greater business agility
• Faster and more effective decisions
• More effective problem resolution
• Greater self-confidence
• Reduced anxiety in stressful situations

Who Should Attend:

• Executives
• Managers and supervisors at all levels
• Business development managers
• All industries
• Startups

Training Topics: The Foundation of problem-solving

• The problem ownership mindset
• The four steps to solving any problem

Stimulating innovation in yourself and others

• Strategies for overcoming confirmation bias, functional fixation and other biases that affect decisions
• How to overcome the fear of failure

Leveraging collaboration in the decision making process

• Facilitating disruptive brainstorming with a team
• How to avoid killing creativity

After the course

• Four weeks of email reinforcement and self-assessments
• A certificate of completion from Belding Training