Programme Objective
 

Accountants are often mocked as boring and uninspiring bean counters. Commonly stereotyped as predictable, they are stickler for analysis and routines. They are trained to be left brained – logical, sequential and detailed. Contrary to popular beliefs, creativity can be natured. Accountants can be creative if they acquire the right creative thinking skills. This experiential workshop opens up the world’s most powerful, portable and creative computer ever created – your brain. It will teach you how switch from your left logical brain to your right creative brain. When you apply creative techniques, life in the accounting profession will be dull again!

 

Learning Objectives

This experiential and fun workshop will enable you to:

1. describe and develop your right brain
2. interpret and apply 5 creative techniques
3. create and construct products and services

Programme Outline

 

1. Your Creative Brain

• Your left and right brains
• Developing your right brain
• Analytical thinking versus Creative thinking

 

2. Ready to be Creative

• The world’s most creative genius – Leonard da Vinci
• Baroque music
• Brain food
• The creative environment

 

3. Nurturing Creativity

• 7 ways to kill your creativity
• 7 ways to increase your creativity
• 7 tips to creative thinking

 

4. Creativity Techniques

• Reverse assumptions
• Slice and Dice
• Split the Banana
• SCREAM!
• The 5Qs

 
Training Methodology
Lecturettes, creativity mini-projects, presentation, creative games and puzzles. Baroque music will be played and videos of creative commercial applications will be screened.
 
Closing Date for Registration
1 week before programme or until full enrolment

Intended For

For accountants who want to discard their mundane mindset and desire to create something more innovative

Programme Facilitator(s)