Creativity Tools

Creativity can help us generate ideas, innovate, solve problems and make effective decisions. Unlock your creativity with this selection of resources, tips and techniques.
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135 Minutes

Innovation Ping-Pong

Individuals quick-fire ideas to each other in a knockout competition to generate many ideas and solutions for an issue. No separate task sheet required.

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4 Minutes

Giving it the Creative Sell

An exercise to encourage you and your team to be creative about the way in which you present ideas. It can be used to stimulate creativity, as a presentation skills exercise, or as an activity to help people discuss sales techniques.

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8 Minutes

Insight: Harnessing the Power of Inspiration

'Insight' describes an occasion when an idea or answer arrives seemingly spontaneously in our minds. Recent scientific studies have shown that there are ways to stimulate these moments of inspiration in the right environment.

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5 Minutes

Idea Beam

A creative tool that provides a means of encouraging participants to use different levels of thinking to reach an objective. Allow 45 minutes for completion.

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2 Minutes

Examining the Boundaries

This individual exercise is ideal for understanding or defining a problem so that you address the right issues.

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3 Minutes

Mind Mapping

Mind mapping is a useful and highly visual ideas-generation technique. Here we look at how to create your own mind maps, together with examples of where they can best be used.

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4 Minutes

Sharing Creativity Around

A group exercise which encourages creativity through interpretation and helps reinforce the importance of sharing ideas and opinions at work.

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30 Minutes

Be More Creative

In this episode of our Expert Voices podcast, we collate the best expert advice on how to be more creative - from our interviews with creativity experts.