Problem Solving and Creative Thinking

Guidance on how to develop your problem solving and creative thinking skills

Having good, strong problem solving skills can make a huge difference to your career. Problems are at the centre of what many people do at work every day.

Creative thinking is a way of looking at problems or situations from a fresh perspective and can be stimulated both by an unstructured process such as brainstorming, and by a structured process such as lateral thinking.

Problem solving

Online or face to face learning

Reading

Problem solving techniques
(LinkedIn Learning)
What is problem solving?
Mindtools
 

Problem solving checklist 
Chartered Management Institute

 

Thinking creatively

Online or face to face learning

Reading

Creativity: Disrupting yourself and managing team creativity
(LinkedIn Learning)
Creativity tools
Mindtools

Self-diagnosis tool


To identify areas you need to develop download the self-diagnosis tool

Download

Contact us


If you have any feedback or questions about the toolkit please email us at pod@admin.ox.ac.uk.