BSLL 3150 - Creative Problem Solving

Effective decision making often demands that you first truly understand the problem before generating a fresh solution. Participants in this course will learn how to systematically balance creativity and practicality when problem solving both at work and in personal lives. Through a multi-step process, the course will include creative problem solving exercises and detailed action planning toward implementing chosen solutions. Specific topics include: the three stage of creative problem solving, four stages of generating and four stages of focusing.

Noncredit courses do not produce academic credit nor appear on a Colorado State University academic transcript.

Instructors

Barb Smith

Barb A. Smith, President and founder of S & H Consulting LLC, brings over 20 years of extensive problem solving, process improvement, organizational development, training, strategic planning, change management and leadership development experience to her clients.

Barb’s strong background includes work as both an internal and external consultant. While Manager of Organizational Change for the merger of a joint venture of Shell and Texaco, Barb served on and coached the executive leadership team, facilitating the creation of new strategies, structures and culture. As a training and human resources manager and professional prior to that, she worked with groups of 5 to 500 to design, present, and facilitate hundreds of successful process improvements/problem solving teams; leadership programs; professional and technical training programs; meetings, conferences and retreats; and organizational effectiveness interventions. In her current work, Barb collaborates with leaders of diverse organizations to uncover issues, solve sticky business problems and implement solutions that hit the mark.