Science-based, practice-proven creative thinking training to develop your four core creative competencies: find out what they are in this signature program that creativity expert Stu Lloyd has run for thousands of executives at companies such as Adidas, Citibank, Astro, and more. transcript (via Descript): One thing I've learned at the intersection of creativity and commerce over the last 30 years is that to be really creative, you've got to act different to think different, but isn't it funny and frustrating that a lot of the creativity programs offer just too much whew. Too many kind of colored pencils and coloring in competitions. What if there was a science based practice, proven creativity program to help your people break out of their cage? The good news is there is it's called pop thing, and I've designed this coming from a psychology background. On the back of the work, which was developed by dr. Epstein PhD, who's the publisher of psychology today magazine, and he identified four behavior traits capturing, challenging, surrounding and broadening. And I've designed this program to build your peoples. Core personal creative competencies around those four areas. It's high energy. It's a lot of fun. It's explosive. Yeah. And we've trained tens of thousand executives from major companies with this exact program. Over the years. So if you want your people to get in touch with their creative side, which has maybe been suppressed a little bit by education systems, by cultural controls, there's all sorts of factors, which mean people live within themselves, help them to break their cage and express their creativity, hop across One thing I've learned at the intersection of creativity and commerce over the last 30 years is that to be really creative, you've got to act different to think different, but isn't it funny and frustrating that a lot of the creativity programs offer just too much whew. Too many kind of colored pencils and coloring in competitions. What if there was a science based practice, proven creativity program to help your people break out of their cage? The good news is there is it's called pop thing, and I've designed this coming from a psychology background. On the back of the work, which was developed by dr. Epstein PhD, who's the publisher of psychology today magazine, and he identified four behavior traits capturing, challenging, surrounding and broadening. And I've designed this program to build your peoples. Core personal creative competencies around those four areas. It's high energy. It's a lot of fun. It's explosive. Yeah. And we've trained tens of thousand executives from major companies with this exact program. Over the years. So if you want your people to get in touch with their creative side, which has maybe been suppressed a little bit by education systems, by cultural controls, there's all sorts of factors, which mean people live within themselves, help them to break their cage and express their creativity, hop across through our website Hotheads-innovation.com and get in touch with us today about pop think.

Looking for innovation thinking training? This is Stu Lloyd's signature innovation discovery skills training, and has been attended by thousands of executives from Adidas, Citibank, Singapore Press Holdings, and many more. It is designed to build the 5 Core Innovation Discovery Skills. Transcript (via Descript): Discovery is a journey and that journey starts with each and every one of us, because without getting there and getting our hands dirty exploration, how are we ever going to bring ideas back into the business with us? So we've developed a program called innovator it's our signature program, which helps people to develop the core discovery skills and the best way to remember what those five core discovery skills are, is the acronym, OCEAN: observing, challenging, experimenting, associative thinking, and networking for ideas. Now the interesting thing to me as somebody with a psychology background is that four out of those five are actually behavioral, not cognitive. So in this program, you're going to get your hands dirty. It's really hands on. It's immersive. It's fun. It's practical and people are going to embark on a great Journey of discovery, which will be lifelong. So hop across to our website, hotheads-innovation.com and let's discover discovery skills together with the innovator.

In this super-powerful creative ideas training, Stu Lloyd introduces you to six weapons-grade ideation tools and techniques that blow brainstorming out of the water. Transcript (via Descript): Did you know that brainstorming is at least 50 years old as a practice, but the most modern creativity research shows that it's a really inefficient and ineffective way of actually creating fresh new ideas. So why is it that more than 95% of fortune 500 companies still use brainstorming as the go to tool? You know, the situation, people standing in the boardroom, shouting out ideas on the flip chart. That's old school instead I've dug up half a dozen better ways to brainstorm. This program is called beyond brainstorming and in it, I will step you and your team through half a dozen techniques, and you'll actually get to use real life examples and feed them into the formula so we can work through them together, including one super cool 10 X technique from Google. This is really powerful stuff. I've worked with some of the world's leading companies across many sectors on it beyond brainstorming. We'll take your company's ability to ideate to a whole new level. I'm looking forward to it. So why don't you jump onto our website, hotheads-innovation.com and get in touch with us today about beyond brainstorming.

Stu Lloyd talks us through one of the most specialised creative training courses - how to think better under pressure, and how to turn an obstacle into an opportunity, as a springboard for even greater greater creative thinking. Transcript (via Descript); Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you don't have enough time to complete a project or enough money to complete a project or enough resources to solve a particular problem? Of course you have. We all have constraints are a given in just about every business situation, but why are we never taught? That constraints actually cause creativity, you see the research is quite plain on this creativity research shows that if we introduce a constraint, it actually forces us to think bigger, bolder braver. Really? Why have we never learned this before? So I've designed a program called constraints cause creativity, which looks at. How the obstacle becomes the opportunity. That's right. The obstacle becomes the opportunity and all of a sudden you can see a whole lot of new, exciting, fresh ways to move forward. This is a great breakthrough, but we've never been skilled in this before. So here it is constraints cause creativity. And if this sounds like something you or your team needs head across to hotheads-innovation.com and let's talk about constraints cause creativity problem solved.

3 THINKING TRAPS - AND HOW TO ESCAPE THEM is a team problem solving skills course that is available in face-to-face or virtual formats. One of these techniques has shown an 80% improvement in problem solving, and HBR showed a 69% improvement in problem solving capability with another one of these techniques. Yes, this is serious stuff. Transcript (via Descript): We all have blind spots, but we're blind to our blind spots. That's one of the most important things I've learned coming from a psychology background about the science of creativity. Our heads are full of biases, which we simply can't see yet. These very powerful things are holding us back from seeing a solution. We all have blind spots but we're blind to our own blind spots. So how do we work around these? Well, I've been working on this program called three thinking traps, which I've run successfully with some of the world's most cutting edge companies working with engineers and R and D people within that. And we're tackle head on three of the strongest limiting biases, design fixation, functional fixedness, and goal fixedness. We tackle them head on, we plug in sometimes real examples so that they can see how these things help them to jump the hurdles and see around corners. It's really powerful. It's really cool. And it's a lot of fun because at the end of the workshop, we bring everyone together to do a brain swarming exercise, where they bring it all together and show us exactly what they've learned. So they can go back to their office and do it for themselves. This is cool stuff. And if you'd like to explore it more, please go to hotheads-innovation.com. And speak to us today about three thinking traps and how to escape them.

We've run design thinking training courses for leading companies such as DaimlerBenz (Mercedes), Puratos, Danone, and Intel. Transcript (via Descript): "The customer is my compass" is something that anybody who attends our design thinking workshop will remember for the rest of their life. The customer is my compass because design thinking is a customer centric problem solving methodology. Our program is built around the five pillars of design thinking. Attendees consider it one of the best design thinking programs because it's completely practical, completely immersive to the point where we actually bring in a real live customers so that people can practice their observation skills and also their experimenting skills and get feedback from real live customers, which means at the end of it two day program. Guess what people walk out of there with real insights, real actionable ideas under there are the customer is my compass. Go to hotheads-innovation.com and get in touch with us today if you would like to drill your people in terms of design thinking, getting closer to your customers than you ever thought you could to get insights, to get ideas, to innovate, define the future faster.

Stu Lloyd is all about about empowering intrepreneurs -- often with soft skills coaching -- to perform their best in large companies, such as Fortune 500s. Transcript (via Descript): Steve Jobs once said, "Why join the Navy if you can be a pirate." I love that. And what I want to talk about is how do you get the Maverick mindset into your team to build their confidence, their creative confidence as innovators. So a lot of the work. That we do here at HOD AIDS is all around intrepreneur ship. Which means how do we put that entrepreneurial spirit into people that are working within a big company, such as yours? So we've developed one of my favorite programs called unleash the skunks skunks, as we know. Oh, the entrepreneurs, and this is a really cool program, which takes them through the mindset, the toolset and the skillset of being an intrapreneur. So this is a soft skills training course. As I said, it gives them the Maverick mindset, because I don't believe that mindset is being sufficiently tackled until now. We're very good at tool set and skill set in most organizations, but it's the mindset. How do we accept those outsiders, those weirdos, the pirates with the crazy ideas, they are the future of your organization. So how do we embrace them? How do we encourage them? How do we allow them to take us to the next level? If you'd like to know more about this, go to hotheads-innovation.com and get in touch with us. And let's talk about unleashing the skunks inside your organization.

This innovation and problem skills course is based on Stu Lloyd's forthcoming book, BIG T Thinking. It can be delivered as a face-to-face workshop or as a virtual creativity and innovation training program. Transcript (via Descript): I've been doing a lot of really interesting reading lately about how they say that generalists will be more important, more valuable than specialists in the future, or as a client of mine, put it, he said, we need to be a Jack of all trades, but a master of one, which I really like. So we need to have the domain experience. But we also need to be embracing trans-sectoral, cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary thinking, or as I call it Big T Thinking. So what's big do thinking all about big T is all about making us T-shaped. So the downstroke of the T is your domain experience. The industry you're currently working in. But the horizontal crossbar is all the other experience and experiences that you have in your personal and professional life, because it's all about intersections and it's all about collisions, the ability to see or hear, or spot something in a very far away domain and bring that into your industry. See if it fits. See if that makes something work better within your industry, because you've imported it from a far away destination. So creativity is an import export exercise. That's what this is all about. Broadening, broadening, broadening your horizons. If you need big T in your team, in your organization. If you think this might be something of interest to you in terms of cross-sectoral multidisciplinary thinking, head across the hotheads-innovation.com and talk to us about turbocharging, your Big T Thinking.

Transcript (via Descript): I want to talk to you about fear in my work with innovation at the intersection of psychology and innovation and creativity, it's become so apparent to me that fear is our biggest limiting factor. It can be small things as small as somebody's not putting up their hand in a meeting Cause I think, Ooh, my idea might sound silly. I might lose face, but at the other end of the scale, it could be a manager thinking, well, you know what? I'm not sure we should go ahead with this. I'm not sure we should push the green light on this because I am not completely convinced of its success. What if my name is attached to a failure, what if this program is not as successful as we want it to be? There it goes my promotion, there it goes my job better to stay with the safety catch on and not do anything. And therefore we become absolutely paralyzed by fear and inertia. Grips us. So I've been exploring this whole concept of fear of failure. And the good news is there are absolutely success strategy solutions that we can put in place for your team. I've consulted a number of experts from academics all the way through to people who face the fear of failure on a daily basis. People like military parachute instructors, bomb, disposal, experts, Hollywood, stunt doubles, and Olympic coaches. What is it that we're really afraid of? And when we stopped to explore that and to examine it and break it down, we can put frameworks against it. Easy to implement, easy to follow, easy to understand. And suddenly you see people loosening up. Suddenly you see the creative conference returning and people feel, yeah, not only I can do this, but let's do this. So it fear of failure is something which is a limiting factor or potentially limiting factor in your organization, holding you back from much needed, innovative behaviors, head across to hotheads-innovation.com and get in touch with me today so that we can explore the fear of failure with you together.