QAI, the leading global workforce development and consulting organization, recently announced the launch of iGenie- An Innovation Skill Development Program Students and Teachers. The program consists of 50+ hours of skill development workshops, aimed at developing the thinking skills in students. The program is based on internationally recognized techniques of imparting innovation skills to under-graduate and post-graduate students and teachers. All of us have learned to think and think well but how many us actually learned to systematically think 'out of the box'? The situations we face as professionals and students are not pre-scripted. iGenie program prepares students and professionals to handle such situations for which there is no pre scripted 'right answer'. Around the globe economies are investing and supporting programs for building Innovative Thinking Skills in students and professionals. The European Commission is funding the Life Long Learning Programme (LLP) that supports learning opportunities from childhood to old age in every single life situation. It has a budget of
