Creativity for Finance Professionals
In a profession shaped by change and uncertainty, creative thinking is a practical skill. This course helps you develop habits, tools, and ways of thinking that improve problem‑solving, decision‑making, and confidence at work.
£150 +VAT
Creativity for Finance Professionals
£150 +VAT
365 days’ access
Creativity for Finance Professionals
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This course will enable you to
- Understand creativity as a practical skill for solving problems and approaching uncertainty
- Adopt habits and behaviours that support creative thinking and collaboration
- Reframe problems and explore different perspectives using structured techniques
- Create environments that encourage creativity, including in remote or hybrid teams
- Apply tools to generate, organise and evaluate ideas with confidence
About the course
Accountants are operating in an environment of constant change — automation, new client demands, shifting regulations, and greater expectations to add insight rather than simply report numbers. In this context, creativity isn’t about artistic talent; it’s about how you think, how you approach problems, and how you respond when there isn’t a clear technical answer.
This course explores creativity as a practical, learnable skill. It looks at how creative thinking works, why it matters in professional settings, and how habits, behaviours, and environments can either support or block new ideas. You’ll work through techniques for reframing problems, understanding different perspectives, building empathy, and navigating the emotional and practical challenges of the creative process.
You’ll come away with a clearer understanding of your own creative potential and how to apply it at work. This course will give you tools to generate, organise, and evaluate ideas, strengthen your ability to work creatively with others, and build the confidence to approach uncertainty with curiosity rather than caution.
Contents
Understanding creativity
The importance of creativity
What is creativity?
Workplace creativity
How to come up with ideas
Your creative potential
Finding time to be creative
Looking at your world in new ways
Driving creativity
Expansive thinking
Tools for reframing
Making creative connections
Finding fresh perspectives
Stepping into other people’s shoes
Developing a creative workplace
Creativity at work
The right environment
Creativity in remote settings
Using expansive language
Embracing the creative process
It’s a process
Understanding the creative process
Getting your thinking right
Involving other people
Riding the emotional rollercoaster
Overcoming challenges
Staying creative under pressure
Tools and strategies
Tools and strategies
Brainstorming
Nominal group technique
Affinity mapping
Multi-voting
Rank ordering
Tools for testing ideas
Structured discussion
Thinking like devils and murderers
Inspiring and managing creativity
Creative management
Motivating creative people
Creative focus
Evaluating creative performance
Writing a creative brief
Creative feedback
Author
Anna Faherty
Writer, lecturer and consultant working across the publishing, museum and charity sectors.
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Anna Gray –
love the course and the lecturer videos
Ian Haworth –
some of the quiz questions were too easy overall the course gave some useful thought process ideas especially for how to run the creative meeting
Ian Lewis –
Thought this was an a very good course and really helped to consider how to be creative, and the tools available to do it.
Karen Thomson –
great course ; i tend to jump straight to solutions and be that loud person in a meeting – will hopefully make me temper some of my behaviours to get better results from my team
Artic Wing Fu Lo –
Creative is something more creative than on-line course with quiz
Sandra Howells –
Therese Campbell –
wide coverage of a lot of different aspects of Creativity
Sylvia Dovaston –
Great reminder of different too,s, we can’t force creativity
Emily Riddell –
The content was thought provoking but easy to follow. It was well laid out with excellent examples and case studies.
LUISA PINGYIN –
I enjoyed the links to the different You tube clips and external support documents for further information.
Christopher Humphrey –
Gave me some interesting and new tools and techniques to use in my working life
Anganee Bharath –
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Richa Dewan –
More practical based question that is related to office life
Pamela Seesahai –
it met my requirements because i am always trying to find way to challenge my staff to think outside the box & generate new ideas on how we can become more efficient in the workplace .
Deborah Harney –
Carmela Pastore –
Helped me understand the approaches to take to increase creativity
Woon Kam Cheng –
There are vast resources for enhancing the subject while it may still be better if more video is used.
Hannah Lee –
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Phemelo Mosinyi –
the content was very inspiring and useful
Debra Barretto –
There is scope for being more creative but reading and watching the videos in the course has given me some great ideas as to how to tap into that creativity
Peter Corrish –
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