Creative thinking isn’t something reserved for a few special geniuses. It’s a skill – or a way of operating – that we can all learn.

This presentation looks at three different “ways of operating” that increase your chances of coming up with new ideas.

1. Divergent thinking; coming up with lots of possible options, rather than looking straight away for the “right” idea.
2. Lateral thinking: breaking the rules just to see what happens.
3. Development thinking: how to give new ideas the space to grow.

This is the presentation I used, which also covers advice on telling stories on social media.

And here are links to the individual techniques we used:

1. Brainwriting
2. Metaphor Mash
3. Pluses, Potentials and Concerns