Do you and your team sometimes get stuck for ideas? Do you keep tackling the same problems and not cracking them? Lateral thinking is an essential skill for anyone who wants to be a smarter problem-solver, an ideas person and a creative thinker. This course covers all the key elements of lateral thinking and shows you step by step how you can harness its key techniques to boost your brain power and creativity. It contains many inspiring stories and examples as well as tips, tricks and methods to improve your mental agility. You will come up with better ideas at work and in other walks of life. Lateral thinking skills will help advance your career. And you will be a more interesting person - because you think differently.In this course you will learn:What is lateral thinking and why is it so potent?How to challenge assumptionsHow and when to break rules and conventionsWhy you need to ask searching questions and how to do itHow to deliberately take a different point of viewHow great lateral thinkers conceived breakthrough ideasHow to use random inputs to displace your thinkingHow lateral thinking puzzles can exercise the brain and improve questioning skillsHow to generate really creative and radical solutions for problems big and smallYou can use these techniques on your own or with your team.