Course Detail(MP062A : Light Up your Bulb! Creative Thinking Skills for Accountants)
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MP062A : Light Up your Bulb! Creative Thinking Skills for Accountants

14.00 CPE Hours (Others)
Classroom

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

Competency Mapping

Others = 14.00 Hours

Schedule & Fees
Date & Time

12 Sep 2019 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
13 Sep 2019 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

Registration is closed

Programme Facilitator(s)

Michael Lum
Date & Time

19 Nov 2018 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
20 Nov 2018 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

Registration is closed

Programme Facilitator(s)

Michael Lum
Date & Time

07 Sep 2017 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
08 Sep 2017 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

Registration is closed

Programme Facilitator(s)

Michael Lum

Testimonial

Funding

No funding Available!

Programme Facilitator(s)


Michael Lum
B.Acc, M.Com
Licensed NLP Trainer

For the last 15 years Michael has been conducting training both in Singapore and regionally. Additionally, he coaches business executives on a one-to-one basis and mentors start-ups and SMEs.

Michael is a certified trainer with American Board of NLP (Neuro-linguistics Programming), Time Line Therapy® Association and American Board of Hypnotherapy. He is an American Management Association International trainer, a Louis Allen Program Leader and a Laughter Yoga instructor. Michael is currently an associate faculty instructor in Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship with UniSIM.

A wordsmith in his spare time, Michael is the bestselling author of "I Once Wore Diapers”, “No Failure; Only Success Delayed”, “Who Broke My Rice Bowl?” and “From Beggars to Millionaires”. The first book is translated into 4 languages. He is a regular contributor in management to Recruit, Straits Times.

In recognition of his selfless social contribution for his free workshops amongst mid-life retrenched workers and singles, he was awarded ABC True Hero 2003, a social enterprise award pioneered by ABC Stout. Michael is interviewed regularly by the press, radio and TV for his work.

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

Competency Mapping

Others = 14.00 Hours

Programme Facilitator(s)

Michael Lum
B.Acc, M.Com
Licensed NLP Trainer

For the last 15 years Michael has been conducting training both in Singapore and regionally. Additionally, he coaches business executives on a one-to-one basis and mentors start-ups and SMEs.

Michael is a certified trainer with American Board of NLP (Neuro-linguistics Programming), Time Line Therapy® Association and American Board of Hypnotherapy. He is an American Management Association International trainer, a Louis Allen Program Leader and a Laughter Yoga instructor. Michael is currently an associate faculty instructor in Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship with UniSIM.

A wordsmith in his spare time, Michael is the bestselling author of "I Once Wore Diapers”, “No Failure; Only Success Delayed”, “Who Broke My Rice Bowl?” and “From Beggars to Millionaires”. The first book is translated into 4 languages. He is a regular contributor in management to Recruit, Straits Times.

In recognition of his selfless social contribution for his free workshops amongst mid-life retrenched workers and singles, he was awarded ABC True Hero 2003, a social enterprise award pioneered by ABC Stout. Michael is interviewed regularly by the press, radio and TV for his work.

Upcoming Schedule

Registration is closed

Date & Time

12 Sep 2019 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
13 Sep 2019 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)
Fee (inclusive of GST)

For Members: $ 631.30
For Non-Members: $ 759.70

Programme Facilitator(s)

Michael Lum

Venue

60 Cecil Street
ISCA House
Singapore 049709


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