Thinking differently, daring to act with results
On Monday evening 2 March, Dirk de Boe of Creashock gave an engaging workshop on creative thinking.
The workshop was attended by 16 people from different backgrounds. Location was the Black Box on the TU/e grounds. Walk-in was from 5pm. Despite a mistake by someone in passing on the catering, we were still able to enjoy a well-prepared bread meal although it was a bit later than planned. Thanks to the staff of the Black Box!
Dirk De Boe is an electro-mechanical engineer and worked for Philips for many years. At a certain point, he found that the knowledge and skills he had learned at school and in the company were no longer enough to make a difference in a competitive market. He learned to think creatively and then set up several successful innovation programmes at Philips. He is author of the book Creashockhttp://www.creashock.be/creashock-boek.html and helps organisations and people to think creatively. That Dirk is a practitioner was therefore definitely noticeable in the workshop.
The topics covered included:
- where does your creativity come from and how can you stimulate it positively
- how to break free from patterns and habits
- how to deal with challenges and changes in a positive way
- how to come up with and realise more and better ideas yourself and together with others.
Simple assignments then got us thinking, for instance by giving "wrong answers" to questions. It then turns out that people are stuck to patterns after all. After the presentation, there was a pleasant networking drink in bar of the venue "the Black Box". The board of the Department of Commercial Engineering thanks the participants for attending the lecture and, of course, Dirk de Boe for enthusiastically hosting the workshop.
Description
Introduction
Nowadays, hard work and realising technical solutions are no longer enough for an engineer. In a time of global and fierce competition, you are expected to come up with creative ideas yourself and together with your colleagues and help realise them. Creative thinking has therefore become a crucial skill of a modern engineer.
Target group
The self-aware engineer (M/F) who is concerned with his own future and that of his company.
Structure of the workshop
During the workshop, we interactively discuss:
- where your creativity comes from and how you can positively stimulate it
- how to break free from patterns and habits
- how to positively deal with challenges and changes
- how to come up with and realise more and better ideas yourself and together with others
During this training course, you will receive many concrete tips that you can immediately apply in your work environment.
Afterwards, participants will receive the PowerPoint presentation of the workshop by e-mail
17.00 Reception with sandwiches (included in price)
18.00 Start of workshop
21.00 End of workshop
Speaker(s)
Dirk De Boe is an electro-mechanical engineer and worked for Philips for many years. At a certain point, he found that the knowledge and skills he had learned at school and in the company were no longer enough to make a difference in a competitive market. He learned to think creatively and then set up several successful innovation programmes at Philips. He is author of the book Creashock (see link below) and helps organisations and people to think creatively. He does this at numerous organisations through lectures, workshops, training courses, facilitating brainstorming sessions and innovation projects.
Location
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Organiser
Commercial Engineer
Name and contact details for information
ing. Hans van den End at the e-mail address below