Learning Objectives

Participants that complete this workshop will learn:

• Ways to develop natural creative thinking abilities
• Methods and shortcuts for solving problems and creating innovative solutions
• The prerequisites for a creative organization
• How to set the stage for creativity
• The importance of challenging assumptions
• Divergent vs. convergent thinking
• Vertical vs. lateral thinking
• Organic and Structured Creativity
• Solutions based vs. Problem-based thinking
• Techniques to get yourself into a creative mindset
• Tactics to overcome creative blocks
• Mind mapping
• 5 questions to unmask the root cause of an issue or motivation
• Realities of thinking “outside the box”; certain merits on thinking “inside the box”
• How to expand capacity for creative thought
• Techniques to foster creativity throughout a department or organization
• Collaboration techniques which improve creative problem-solving
• Team diversity and creativity
• The role of emotions in creativity
• Ways to identify and eliminate organizational creativity killers
• Individual creativity killers: hierarchies, micromanagement, lack of sleep, etc. How to minimize them or their effects on creative endeavors

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