Creativity Tools and Techniques for Project Managers with Teresa Lawrence
What You Will Learn
Upon completion of this training, learners will be able to:
- Practice creativity tools and techniques described in A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and other standards—but rarely explicitly taught.
- Demonstrate techniques to solve problems and implement solutions in a shorter period.
- Apply techniques to strengthen the capacity, performance, and productivity of their teams.
Description
Projects come with problems. Now more than ever, the problems that project managers encounter demand that they be creative in their responses. High-performing project managers convert problems into challenges, then skillfully generate, develop, and implement novel solutions to solve those problems.
In this interactive training, you will learn how to apply the Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) process to your project, program, and portfolio management work.
Project managers who consistently deliver on time, within budget, and to the desired scope solve problems differently. These project managers excel in their ability to draw from the capacity of their teams, stakeholders, and themselves to be deliberately creative. In this training, you will gain skills to ignite creativity at will instead of waiting for ideas and solutions to happen.
This training is based on the seminal work of Alex Osborn, the inventor of brainstorming, and Sidney Parnes, the developer of the Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) process. As a result of this training, you will become savvy enough to assess any challenge or opportunity and apply the most dependable creativity tools to best resolve the project challenges you encounter.
AGENDA
-
- Introductions/Icebreaker
- Overview of the Day
- Creativity and Innovation: What Iit Is and What It Isn't
- When Creativity Meets Project Management
- What the research says
- The value in explicitly learning creativity tools described in the PMBOK® Guide
- Overarching Traits of the Creative Problem-Solver
- Three Types of Thinking: Divergent, Convergent, and Combinent
- The Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) Process
- Clarify
- Storyboard
- Creative questions
- Ideate
- Brainstorming
- Forced connections
- Develop
- PPCO
- Implement
- Assistors/resistors
- Sequencing
- Clarify
- Application to Project Management Challenges
- Debrief the Training
Facilitator was fantastic. Tried to keep us engaged even though it was a long day to sit at a computer! Great takeaways, and the Chex Mix activity was creative, useful, and a smart way to engage us. This was my first interaction with PMI and I'm impressed.
April 2023 Attendee
The class was engaging and interactive. Most of the tools given can be used right away within my organization.
August 2023 Attendee
The course covered many angles and a lot of ground. There were many tools that could provide value in professional and sometimes personal settings. Teresa was engaging, energetic, flexible, and a clear communicator.
August 2023 Attendee
PDU Allocation Table
Ways of Working | Power Skills | Business Acumen | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
CAPM® / PMI-CP™ / PMP® / PgMP® | 0.5 | 5 | 1.5 | 7.00 |
PMI-ACP® / Agile* | 0 | 5 | 1.5 | 6.50 |
PMI-SP® | 0 | 5 | 1.5 | 6.50 |
PMI-RMP® | 0 | 5 | 1.5 | 6.50 |
PfMP® | 0 | 5 | 1.5 | 6.50 |
PMI-PBA® | 0 | 5 | 1.5 | 6.50 |