IDEA: Gamified Training For More Creativity
Learn key skills required to think outside the box. Widen the scope of your solutions and improve your creativity techniques.
During a time of digital transformation, how can we generate new ideas within teams in an even better and more structured way and get the work on track as fast as possible?
In this course, you will:
- Increase creativity by visualizing thoughts.
- Use appropriate tools to scale your ideas and go into series production.
- Learn techniques to find new solutions from other constructivist world views.
- Integrate networking techniques into your everyday work to increase the solution spectrum.
- Use structured combinatorics as a creative tool.
- Gather techniques for changing perspectives to new insights.
Approximate training duration: 4-10 hours
Gamification Storyline
IDEA is a serious business game about creativity techniques. In this Serious Business Game, participants take on the role of Vivian. She is an excellent cook and has been invited to be a Megachef for this year’s championship in the USA.
As a contestant in the reality cooking show Megachef, Vivian must solve creative tasks several times in order to make a lasting impression on the jury. She is supported by her mother, a creative toy developer. In the competition, creating new culinary dishes under challenging conditions and limited resources is necessary. As a participant, you will learn various creativity techniques in numerous exercises to increase your solution capacity.
Help Vivian emerge from the show victorious as you learn new solution strategies and methodical approaches along the way. Start your creativity adventure and expand your solution capacities!
IDEA is currently available in the following languages: English, German, French, and Spanish.
Characteristics of the Gamified Training
- Game-based didactic methods
- Applicable and practical content on interpersonal communication skills
- Results-oriented learning with revolutionary gamification technologies
- Simulations for experience-based learning
- Flexible, intuitive to use, fast, and easy to train
- An exciting gamification storyline that facilitates targeted and experiential learning
- A unique learning experience
Methodology
The developed, game-based learning method is a combination of three elements:
- High-quality content equivalent to a two-day, on-site course with a strong, practical focus that is useful and directly applicable to the work
- The use of gamification techniques in terms of storytelling, ranking motivation, scoring, different learning and game levels, and incentives through recognition and awards. This makes the training a motivating and exciting learning experience, which directly promotes the intrinsic motivation to learn alongside your employees
Practical exercises that allow you as a participant to practice directly in a safe and motivating environment and to implement the practical knowledge. You will receive detailed feedback in the form of individual learning loops
Knowledge and Skills
IDEA is a serious business game that focuses on practical application. It concentrates on the development and direct practice of techniques and tools. For that reason, the business game training prevents you from spending too much time at work with models and theories that may not be suitable for solving the task at hand.
The content of this training is topnotch and comes from more than 20 years of practical training course applications with creative thinking strategies and techniques, including sources such as Michael Michalko.
Objectives | Why IDEA?
- Release your creative potential.
- Learn the proven techniques of creative thinking and how to integrate them into your everyday life.
- Discover and apply creative thinking techniques that will increase your ability to solve problems much better.
What Is IDEA’s Focus Group?
IDEA is designed for all professional profiles, especially for those who want to improve their ability to solve problems and create alternative solutions.
This training also contributes significantly to improving skills related to the design and improvement of processes, products, or services. It is the perfect training game for those who want to think outside the box and, as a result, improve their ability to think beyond the horizon.
What Are the Requirements to Get Started?
- The only thing you need to get started is a device with internet access.
- You can access our performance-optimized business game platform at any time from anywhere in the world via your individual user profile or integrate the business game training into your LMS (Cornerstone, Moodle, SAP Success Factors, etc.).
- You will receive regular reports on the progress of your participants and training groups. This allows you to always have an overview of how everyone is doing and motivate your team in a goal-oriented manner.
