CREATIVE THINKING
Creative thinking enables people to approach challenges and opportunities with a fresh perspective. By thinking outside the box, you can generate innovative ideas that can set your businesses apart from their competitors. By challenging conventional thinking, you can develop unique concepts and solutions that can address unmet needs in the market.
Using creative thinking, you, as a women entrepreneur, can also come up with new and exciting ways to engage with customers, create products, and market your businesses.
Start developing your skills in Creative thinking by following the microlearning you find below. Microlearning refers to quick, short-form pieces of learning content, usually lasting between two to twelve minutes. It can come in many formats, including text, video, and graphics. The bottom line that makes a content piece microlearning is that it’s bite-sized, focuses on a specific topic, and is easy for learners to digest. Because of its nature, microlearning is the ideal solution to keep up with today’s mobile-driven digital audiences with shorter attention spans.
Let’s start!
Negotiation for entrepreneurs
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Hone your negotiation skills and develop strategies and techniques to achieve success at the bargaining table. |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Podcast, Article, Video |
Sources
The Benefits of Creativity to Entrepreneurship (Fully Explained)
How to Become a Creative Entrepreneur
#Creativity & #Entrepreneurship
Spotting Opportunities
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Establish new connections to generate opportunities to create value. |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
4 Ways to Spot More Business Opportunities
Spotting new business opportunities
Entrepreneurship is about spotting opportunities
Creativity
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Explore and experiment with innovative approaches and combine knowledge and resources to achieve valuable effects |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
The Benefits of Creativity to Entrepreneurship (Fully Explained)
How to Become a Creative Entrepreneur
#Creativity & #Entrepreneurship
Valuing ideas
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Learn how to make the most out of ideas and opportunities by judging what value is in social, cultural, and economic terms as well as recognizing the potential of an idea in generating value. |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
Main goal: Make the most of ideas and opportunities
Entrepreneurship is about valuing ideas
Taking the initiative
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Develop a sense of initiative and entrepreneurship as the ability to turn ideas into action through creativity, innovation, and risk-taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects. |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
What is the Entrepreneurial Initiative?
The Importance of Taking Initiative and Being Proactive
Entrepreneurship is about taking the initiative
Coping with uncertainty, ambiguity and risk
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Improve the capacity of testing ideas and prototypes from the early stage as one way to reduce risks. |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
Coping with uncertainty, ambiguity and risk
14 Top Tips For Dealing With Business Uncertainty
Dealing with uncertainty like an entrepreneur
Flexibility
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Improve the ability to manage transitions and uncertainty, and to face challenges. |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
Flexibility with focus: adapting to change for long-term success
Why Flexibility is a Necessary Entrepreneurial Trait
5 Best business ideas for freedom and flexibility
Empathy
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Improve the understanding of another person’s emotions, experiences and values, and the provision of appropriate responses. |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
The Role of Empathy in Entrepreneurship
Unravelling the Role of Empathy and Critical Life Events as Triggers for Social Entrepreneurship
Becoming a more Complete Entrepreneur Through Empathy
Critical thinking
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Improve the assessment of information and arguments to support reasoned conclusions and develop innovative solutions. |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
Critical Thinking in Business: How to Learn, Develop, and Use
Why Critical Thinking Matters in Your Business
Critical Thinking in the workplace
Ethical and Sustainable thinking
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Improve how to be able to reflect on how sustainable long-term social, cultural and economic goals are, and the course of action chosen. |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
Why you need sustainability in your business strategy
Why ethics and sustainable thinking are important in business?
Entrepreneurship is about ethical and sustainable thinking
Digital content creation
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Learn how to create and edit digital content; improve and integrate information and content into an existing body of knowledge while understanding how copyright and licences are to be applied; know how to give understandable instructions for a computer system. |
| Duration | Up to 11 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
21 Questions with Lea Motion: Digital Content Creator
How to Create a Digital Content Strategy
How To Become A Successful Digital Content Creator
Financial and economic literacy
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Improve the ability to estimate the cost of turning an idea into a value-creating activity, put in place and evaluate financial decisions over time as well as managing long-term financials. |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
What Is Financial Literacy, and Why Is It So Important?
Financial literacy and the need for financial education: evidence and implications
FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
Information and data literacy
| Type | Online training (OT) |
| Specific objectives | Learn how to: articulate information needs, to locate and retrieve digital data, information and content; judge the relevance of the source and its content; store, manage, and organise digital data, information and content. |
| Duration | Up to 10 minutes |
| Material/room | Articles, Videos |
Sources
Data literacy: an introduction for business
What Is Data Literacy and Why Is It Important?
How to improve the data literacy and data skills?
