Small Business Development Centerat UW-Green Bay
Problem Identification and Creative Problem Solving
Date, Time:
2/6/2018,
8:30:00 AM-3:30:00 PM
Location: Advance Business & Manufacturing Center, Green Bay
Fees: $200
A constant challenge for managers at all levels is problem solving — effectively visualizing and diagnosing a problem, identifying fresh, creative solutions, selecting the right solution to implement and mapping out its execution.
This workshop integrates a variety of creative thinking tools into the classic four-step process of problem solving to enlarge the array and value of choices for a solution. It also explores the role of pictures and images as visual representations that aid others to grasp the process and its outcome more quickly.
Key Takeaways:
Participants will learn strategies for:
- Diagnosing the problem
- Reframing the problem statement and visualizing the problem to foster deeper understanding
- Generating prospective solutions through a variety of creative processes
- Evaluating prospective solutions
- Identifying steps for executing the chosen solution
- Applying pictures and images as communication tools in problem solving
Who Should Attend?
- Small business owners
- Team leaders
- Supervisors
- Managers
This workshop is structured around real problems and is designed to be an interactive learning experience for the participants. It begins with the participants breaking into teams and selecting a problem drawn from one of their team member’s own work situations. The selected problems serve as a focus throughout the workshop.
Instructor:
Michael Troyer served as a tenured professor and Business School chair following the completion of his Ph.D. from Duke University. His teaching included business strategy, creative process, leadership and management. In 2001, Michael left his position to become a full-time consultant serving small business owners with strategic planning, as a small business owner’s advisor and with helping individuals who, having completed their first career in a corporate organization, now seek to operate their own business. Michael has been involved in the startup of numerous businesses himself. He has worked with a broad cross-section of firms — family businesses, manufacturing, construction, banking, real estate, law, professional services, loan origination, transportation, wholesale, retail and nonprofit organizations. He continues to enjoy the sharing of ideas with anyone interested in advancing their own knowledge.
For more information, contact:
Director
(920) 366-9065
E-mail: sbdc@uwgb.edu