CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

Creativity has been shown to help companies reach their financial objectives and boost growth in. Over the years more and more organizations have begun see creativity as a crucial means for organizations to flourish in changing environments, display agility in the face of new challenges, and innovate on new capabilities. Researchers have found that many managers consider creativity and its ultimate product, innovation, as keys to their organization’s success. However, most of these same mangers admit low confidence in their ability to foster creativity and innovation in their workforce.

WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING:

Participants of the Cultivating Creativity course 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

PROGRAM DETAILS:

OTHER TOPICS
  • People Strategy
  • Talent Management
  • Motivation
  • Recruiting
  • Group Facilitation
DELIVERY OPTIONS
  • 2 Day Intensive
METHODS
  • Lecture
  • Group Dynamics
  • Simulations
  • Studies
  • Case Studies
  • Skill Practice Exercises
PROCESS
  • Pre-Training Assessment
  • Tailored Content
  • Expert Delivery
  • Post-Training Evaluation
  • Post-Training Assessment
  • 3 Month Follow-Up

Research Based

Expert Delivered

Active and Experiential

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client Satisfaction Rating

100%

of clients would refer us

98%

of participants would refer us

5

running evaluation form average
(out of 5)

90%

of trainers hold higher degrees
(Most PhD)

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