The SCAMPER Workshop: Problem Solving for Teams
Creative training for 250+ organisations worldwide
Overview
About this course
Skills
Certificate
Coach
Testimonials
FAQ’s
Pricing
About this course
What your team will learn
SCAMPER is an acronym for seven different ways to approach a challenge: Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate and Reverse. It is a framework to stimulate questions which can be used to help you problem-solve and look at your challenge, project or product differently.
The SCAMPER questions can trigger modifications of something that already exists, and they can also act as a springboard to truly fresh thinking – helping you to boost your problem-solving skills.
The seven lenses used represent the questions necessary to break through creative blocks. We call SCAMPER the WD40 of problem-solving tools as it can be applied to almost any problem. It can help you to find new ideas, both individually and in groups which makes people more confident in the workplace and is set to banish rubbish brainstorms!
We have worked with product teams at Marks and Spencer, Jamie Oliver Food and many PR agencies, brand and comms teams to help them solve problems using the SCAMPER problem-solving tool.
You will explore case studies from a raft of different industries to see how SCAMPER might have been used to generate solutions.
In this problem solving training you will practice collaborating and problem-solving together during the workshop and find solutions to your real-world briefs, and can be run as an interactive online course.
Innovation is often about improving something that already exists. SCAMPER lenses can help with both incremental and breakthrough solutions to problems.
Skills
What your team will learn
You’ll leave understanding with a firm grasp of what each of the 7 SCAMPER problem solving lenses means and how to apply it to your own challenge How to apply the different methods in a systematic way Your approach to dull, uninspired brainstorms or meetings will be transformed as you make it look easy to stimulate new ideas How to unpick and deconstruct creative work using this model You will learn how to use and facilitate the SCAMPER model template online too using free collaborative whiteboard MIRO templates You will feel more confident facilitating creativity in others as the SCAMPER tool encourages groups and individuals to brainstorm by removing boundaries and also promotes constructive problem solving among teams (it works remotely too).
Certificate
What you will receive
Downloadable PDF with the SCAMPER triggers ready to use in your next workshop
60 SCAMPER triggers worksheet and blank template CertificateCoach
Meet your coach
Anahita Milligan
Claire Bridges
Claire has over 30 years’ experience in the creative industries. Claire is fascinated with the creative process helping individuals and teams, to drive innovation and unleash their creative potential. Claire loves to teach the SCAMPER tool because it’s the tool that doesn’t stop giving! Whether you want radical ideas or to build on your existing assets, thoughts or campaigns then the triggers offer so many different ways in. It’s good for individuals and teams, easy to facilitate online and IRL, what more could you want in an innovation and problem solving tool?
testimonials
Client’s words
Case study: CTC-ARI, airport duty free (Cyprus)
A $100m travel retail business needed leaders who could solve problems fast. We took 12 leaders, from 8 nationalities, through a three-month programme: the VIEW problem-solving psychometric, a two-day Creative Problem Solving workshop on real airport challenges, and follow-up coaching.
Impact: a net promoter score of 9, 100% of attendees rated the workshop Excellent or Very Good, and a second cohort was booked.
“The VIEW has helped me understand how I approach the creative process and problem solving in general. It also helped me recognise that I may need to alter the way I approach tasks to get the best out of people who work in a different way to me.”
Agency MD
Skills to build on
“Thank you so much for the programme. And well done to all teams for really embracing the sessions. Some great ideas and ways of working came out of it and lots of skills to build on moving forward.”
Elliot Berry
Original Series Publicity Manager, Netflix
Armed with tools
A significant part of my role at the NSPCC is to create a culture of innovation and learning. Having had no official creative ‘training’ in the past, at times I lacked have confidence to fully explore creativity for myself and my team. I left the training invigorated and am now armed with a basket of easy to execute creative tools either to use for my own creativity or with teams. I’ve put these immediately into practice at work with superb results.”
Caroline Appleton
Head of Individual Supporters, NSPCC
FAQ’s
Frequently Asked Questions
What will I be able to do after this course?
Do you tailor this course for me?
What sort of people take this workshop?
Creativity and problem solving are key skills whatever your role. You definitely don’t need the word creative in your job title. SCAMPER is a brilliant innovation and creative thinking tool with wide application to many different contexts and industries.
Our problem-solving training course has been taken by people from a wide variety of businesses and departments – being better able to tackle challenging issues is an essential part of personal and business improvement. Looking for a wider programme? Explore our creative problem solving training.
Where do the workshops run?
To keep costs down we usually come and deliver this workshop at your office or workspace. If you want to get offsite and have the budget, we love Wallace Space’s individual and creative training spaces, all over central London. We travel all over the UK and abroad to deliver our workshops.
What is SCAMPER?
A problem solving framework with seven lenses for looking at a challenge, project or product differently: Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Magnify, Put to other uses, Eliminate and Reverse. It works for small improvements and breakthrough ideas alike.
How long is the workshop, and can it run online?
It runs as a half-day or full-day workshop in person, or as an interactive online course. We’ll agree the format that suits your team.
How many people can take part?
Up to 16 people is ideal, but we’ve run sessions for audiences of up to 200. Just ask.
How much does problem solving training cost?
Online team webinars start from £120 per person + VAT for a group of 10, and individuals can join our open webinars with the PRCA from £190 + VAT. In-person workshops are priced on group size, format and how much tailoring you need. Book a free call with Claire for a quote.
Can we work on our own challenges?
Yes. You’ll practise SCAMPER on your team’s real briefs during the workshop, so you leave with ideas as well as skills.
What’s included?
A downloadable PDF of SCAMPER triggers, a worksheet of 60 SCAMPER triggers with a blank template, free Miro whiteboard templates for running SCAMPER online, and a certificate.
Who runs the training?
Expert trainer Anahita Milligan, who is formally trained in creative problem solving and has used SCAMPER with clients including M&S, and founder Claire Bridges.
How is this different from the Creative Ninja course?
This course goes deep on one structured method, SCAMPER, for cracking a specific challenge. Creative Ninja is a broader toolkit for generating, developing and choosing ideas.
Pricing
Simple, transparent pricing
We have options for individuals and teams to help unlock your full creative potential and fuel your ideas!
Online team webinars start from £120 per person + VAT, based on a group of 10. Booking for yourself? Join one of our open webinars with the PRCA, from £190 + VAT. In-person workshops are tailored to your team, so book a free 30-minute call for a quote.
In-person SCAMPER team problem solving training
A half or full day workshop tailored to your team or group. Work collectively on your creative challenges using the SCAMPER technique. Collaborate, practice and gain confidence in this fast-paced workshop.
Up to 16 participants SCAMPER brainstorming resource downloadable PDF
Tailored to your sector We can adapt for large groups CertificateJoin the 50,000+ people who have improved their creativity skills with us.
Prefer to talk? Book a free 30-minute call with Claire, or send us a message.
“I cannot recommend them enough. You will learn a new way of thinking.”
– Iman Spearman, Head of Training, PRCA
Online team webinars from £120 per person + VAT (based on a group of 10).